16 sucree recipes

Pate sucree is the classic French sweet shortcrust pastry for tarts, with butter, sugar, egg, and flour. A buttery, slightly crisp shell that holds custards, fruit, and chocolate beautifully.

Kasha-Patate Sucree from Montreal's Le Commensal: fluffy buckwheat groats topped with sweet potato puree and a savory tamari-garlic sauce. A hearty vegetarian dish with deep, earthy flavors.

The classic French pastry dough. Make up to 3 days in advance.

Pate sucree (sweet short pastry) made the French way with butter worked by hand into flour, powdered sugar, and eggs. Tender, cookie-like crust for tarts and tartlets that keeps for days.

Slow cooker venison chili loaded with kidney beans, mushrooms, jalapenos, barbecue sauce, and six cloves of garlic. Thick, spicy, and built for long cooking.

Jambon de la cabane a sucre, a traditional Quebec sugar shack ham simmered in apple juice or maple sap then glazed with maple sugar, cloves, and a sweet raisin sauce.

Pain au Sucre, Quebec sugar house maple toast: buttered whole wheat bread broiled with maple sugar until bubbling, topped with walnuts and cream. A 25-minute French-Canadian breakfast treat.

Rustic French plum tart with cinnamon-dusted fruit and buttery pâte sucrée crust brings Alsatian bakery magic to your kitchen for elegant summer desserts or brunch centerpieces.

Sweet pie dough (pate sucree) made in a food processor with butter, eggs, sugar, and flour. The buttery, slightly sweet pastry that elevates fruit pies and tarts.

Sweet dough for pies is a classic pate sucree-style pastry: butter, sugar, egg, and flour combine into a tender, cookie-like crust ideal for tarts, galettes, and dessert pies.

Sweet pastry dough (pate sucree) made in a food processor with butter, sugar, flour, and egg. A rich, tender, forgiving tart crust that's ideal for lemon tarts and fruit flans.

This recipe is my Great Grandmother Thorn's recipe. (GG's mother) So that would make it your Great Great Grandmother.

Homemade elderberry wine fermented with fresh berries, sugar, lemon juice, and yeast. A traditional country winemaking recipe that needs just five ingredients and three months of patience.

Watercress goat cheese salad with pecan halves is a three-ingredient starter that takes 15 minutes. Peppery greens, creamy chevre, and crunchy nuts.

5 alarm chili for serious heat-seekers: layered with jalapeno, serrano, scotch bonnet, chipotle, and pasilla chiles over slow-simmered beans and meat. A deep, smoky, blistering bowl of fire.

Cheesy pasta salad tossed with olive oil and shredded cheddar while the noodles are still hot, so the cheese melts and clings. Studded with fresh tomato and onion, and just as good hot or chilled. No mayo.