Breads

Easy Sourdough Bread

Read more: Breads of New England VIDEO: How to Make Irish Soda Bread VIDEO: Making Potato Bread More Bread Recipes Bread Cookbooks If no-knead bread is the easiest and anadama bread is the most New Englandy, then sourdough is likely the oldest — probably the first leavened bread, created in ancient Egypt thousands of years […]

Food

Cake Recipes

You can take the cake anywhere you want with these recipes from Yankee‘s recipe database. These favorites include Angel Cake, Carrot Cake, and Boston Cream Pie. Read more: Best Cook: The Cake Lady

Food

Lamb Recipes

Thanks to a burgeoning interest in locally raised products, the market for New England lamb in all its many variations has taken off across the region. Try these lamb recipes:

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Cookbooks: Bread

Read more: Breads of New England VIDEO: How to Make Irish Soda Bread VIDEO: Making Potato Bread More Bread Recipes Artisan Baking by Maggie Glezer. Artisan, 2005; $22.95 <p align="left"Bread: A Baker’s Book of Techniques and Recipes by Jeffrey Hamelman. Wiley & Sons, 2004; $40 The Bread Baker’s Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread […]

Food

Spring Lamb Recipes | Homegrown

Many foods signify the coming of spring, but local spring lamb holds a savory place all its own. We profess to eat by the seasons, but in this era of year-round availability, it’s really palate memory and stubborn localness that determine apples for autumn and strawberries for June. Following that guideline, lamb is for spring, […]

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Baking Cakes | Recipes from the Best Cook

In the town of Madison, New Hampshire, if you’re getting married, you’d better hope you’re related to (or friends with) Ruth Shackford, a sprightly 81-year-old farmer’s wife, whose cakes are so desired they can be raffled off at the annual church fundraiser for sometimes as much as $100. Ruth has been baking cakes “ever since […]

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Snow No-Show

Last week I was in the car and listening to NPR when a woman from northern Virginia was commenting on all the snow that had fallen in that region. As I headed toward Providence on I-93 South, there was a lot of bare, albeit brown, grass on the shoulder of the road. The woman (whose […]

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