Baking
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PublishedDecember 24, 2023
My mother’s Sicilian cassata cake nods to her smart frugality and love
The recipe for layered pound cake, covered with chocolate fudge, is a family favorite for the holidays.
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PublishedDecember 24, 2023
Home Plates: Former caterer spreads love with chocolate chip cookies
Jennie Gwilym of Portland delivered her special cookies to essential workers during the pandemic.
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PublishedDecember 3, 2023
Pumpkin chocolate chip oat bars are a whole-grain, feel-good snack
These bars freeze well, so make a batch or two, wrap individual pieces in wax paper, and have a snack at the ready.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2023
Home Plates: The tale of Snow the Goat and the Gingerbread Cookies
The day a hungry, adventurous goat helped himself to a plate of cookies.
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PublishedOctober 1, 2023
Home Plates: A great recipe for apple pie was the least of it
Edie also taught her daughter-in-law how to love.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2023
Here we come a-brambling
The Irish countryside is awash in blackberries, which Irish bakers have cleverly learned to pair with apples.
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PublishedAugust 13, 2023
This peach-cherry cobbler is stealthily healthful
Made with whole-grain flour, a touch of honey and healthier oil to stand in for the butter, this cobbler delivers a delightful coda to any meal.
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PublishedAugust 6, 2023
Home Plates: Old Tavern Inn’s blueberry muffins celebrate Maine, however you make them
A Portland couple carries on a tradition started by one of their grandmothers, who took over an inn in Litchfield as a retirement project.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2023
A cake to weather a storm, from Cathie Pelletier’s ‘Northeaster’
This frugal, old-fashioned Blueberry Cake with Nutmeg Sauce appears in her new book about Mainers in the blizzard of 1952.
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PublishedJune 18, 2023
From A to Z, how to store the excess summer produce you just couldn’t resist
Faced with an overflowing summer farmers market, who can say no? Certainly not our columnist. The answer to over-indulging: Good storage.
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