This is adorable and wholesome and needs to be seen. Lucky editor Mary Bilyeu of the online Newsletter The Blade had the opportunity to host a community submission of family recipes to be published in one of their posts. While most of them are cannily simple and surefire recipes to ensure a holly and…
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5 Vintage Recipes to (Never) Try
These recipes mark idealistically simpler times of less expectant and regularly disappointed palates, as bland an uninventive as the nuclear family function. Shortening was a cheap substitute for butter with a shelf-life long enough to outlive its relevance. Jello was a low-carb substitute for sustenance to construct a meal around, giving way to the weirdest…
Bazar Baking
A.k.a. craft shows, fairs, charity events and the like— they’re a different breed of business, but not impossible to benefit from! This past weekend I flew up North to participate in several craft shows with my amazingly skilled mom, and it took me a canceled flight and a bout of food poisoning to get there,…
3 Recipes for your Leftover Candy Crisis
Halloween has recently passed, and if you’re like any Trick-or-Treat participant, you thoughtfully overbought and have a frightening abundance of candy left over— and that’s absolutely okay! (Especially if you were planning for that *wink wink.*) In the event that you perhaps don’t want to hoard your leftovers all to yourself, I’ve found some ways…
Cut, Whisk, Hand-Mix!
Welcome to the baker’s version of F*ck, Marry, Kill for any and all recipes! Here’s the lowdown on what tools to use when working with a certain type of batter and why. The pastry cutter— a.k.a. the brass knuckles of the baking world. Honestly, you could bruise more than batter in a fight brandishing a…
Butter Vs. Margarine
It’s not as nuanced as it sounds, I promise. The composition of butter and margarine, specifically their fat content, affects the texture and–to a degree–the flavor of whatever it is you’re baking. And while it’s mostly preference-based for whichever you choose to use, it’s helpful to keep in mind how either impact may impact…
Pumpkin Splice Season
Yes. The pumpkin spice craze is upon us. The screaming, nihilistic mass of Americans cried, “let there be pumpkin spice,” thus capitalism responded: pumpkin spice lattes. Pumpkin spice Poptarts. Pumpkin spice- scented candles. Pumpkin spice chapstick, pumpkin spice body spray, pumpkin spice dog treats– would you believe me if I told there was even…
Boozy baking
**Proceed with caution: you might never bake sober again.** I’m sure alcohol isn’t a particularly popular ingredient in your go-to baking recipes—and obviously, that’s because waiting for the baked goodies to cook and cool before eating them is hard enough without adding the lucrative, inebriated temptation of booze to the mix! But honestly, why…
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