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 […]
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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
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:
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Whole-Wheat Bread
Lobster Bisque
Fast Veal Parmigiana
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 […]