The sweetest harbingers of early summer will soon be on display: signs for strawberry socials on church lawns and berry festivals on village greens, and pick-your-own posters near farm stands. After months of dried cranberries and shipped-from-afar citrus, we celebrate this first wave of local fruit (rhubarb being, after all, a vegetable). It has always […]
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Homemade Birthday Cakes | Best Cook
For her son Harold’s first birthday, Esther Foskett found a recipe in an old Farm Journal so that she could make him a birthday cake. “And then I made one for my daughter, and it’s been going ever since,” she explains. That’s 60-some-odd years of cakes. In her small, bright farmhouse kitchen in Woodstock, Connecticut, […]
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VT Cheddar & Smoked Gouda Mac & Cheese With Diced Honey Ham
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Quick Spring Pasta
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Clambake: Feasting, New England-Style
Rhode Island claims proudly that it’s the rightful home of the old-fashioned New England clambake, featuring lobsters, clams, fish, native sausage, corn, and sweet potatoes, usually leading off with a big bowl of clam chowder–and we’ll bet nobody ever leaves hungry! In general, the dressing (much like turkey dressing, but sometimes with chopped clams instead […]
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Cranberry Bread
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