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Graduation Fare: Harvard Squares
How do you celebrate a Harvard graduation when coronavirus cancels the traditional ceremony? Turn on the livestream and bake a batch of Harvard Squares. I found this recipe, named for the crimson and...
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Cucumber Soup: A Summer Soother
As our garden yields a profusion of cucumbers, slices in salads quickly become monotonous. I’ve tried cutting spears for vegetable dips, tossing cubes into smoothies, and making batches of blender...
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Recreating a Tearoom Treat
Through the mid to late 20th century, department store tearooms gave shoppers a place to relax and regroup. Originally a clever marketing ploy to keep customers in the store, the tearooms became a...
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Holiday Cake without Candied Fruit
Forget the glazed green cherries and other icky candied fruit. This cake relies on raisins and pecans – nothing artificial in either one. And you’ll likely have these ingredients, plus brown sugar,...
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Gingerbread Fit for a President
Crowd outside the White House at Andrew Jackson’s inaugural reception, 1829, by artist Robert Cruikshank, Source: Library of Congress Inaugural ceremonies of the past week inspired me to read more...
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A Sunny Dessert for Dreary Days
By this time of the year, I need something sunny-looking on my table because there’s no escaping the snow and day after day of below-freezing temperatures. Enter apricot pudding, a recipe I adapted...
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Cornbread with Colonial Roots
There must be as many recipes for cornbread as there are cooks who have made it. The common ingredient is corn meal, but the shortening, the sweetener, and the type of corn meal itself varies from...
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Fruit Fit for a President
In the days before air freight, I impatiently waited for summer fruit season. First, green grapes, followed by berries, cherries, peaches, and melons. Most of the time, I simply ate the fruit plain,...
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The Best of the Clippings for Kugel Recipes
I don’t think my mother ever made a noodle kugel for the Jewish holidays, but that didn’t stop her from clipping recipes from a variety of sources and stuffing them into a Jewish cookbook that she...
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Spiffed Up Saltines
Think saltines are just for snack time at nursery school? This recipe, a favorite from the 1970s, adds a toffee topping and transforms an ordinary cracker into a holiday treat. I first tasted this...
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