How Boston cream pie — a French-inspired cake — became New England’s favorite pie. Well, sort of …
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To celebrate Yankee‘s 80th anniversary in 2015, The Yankee Seeker will spend the year cooking and baking from the vast and colorful Yankee Magazine recipe archives. Will the retro results hold up to today’s tastes? We can’t wait to find out! As an inaugural theme for “Yankee Seeker Meets Yankee Archives,” I chose “comfort food” […]
After I made a cranberry gelatin mold last year around this time (see Cranberry Gelatin Mold | Retro Recipe), Yankee art director Lori Pedrick told me about a holiday gelatin mold that’s made with lime gelatin, crushed pineapple, and a blend of cream cheese and cottage cheese. Affectionately known in her family as “Lime Slime,” […]
Also called a German pancake, the Dutch Baby is a sweetened, egg-leavened breakfast dish that can satisfy a crowd.
Welcome to “Holiday Appetizers Through the Decades,” a special series celebrating over 75 years and 9 decades of Yankee Magazine holidays and tasty party appetizers! Each post spotlights a new decade with a classic cover, seasonal advice from the pages of Yankee, and one special party-pleasing holiday appetizer recipe for you to try. Yankee Magazine […]
The Iced Cranberry Spritz Cookies that appear in this month’s issue of Yankee are sweet, buttery, and tangy. And with just 7 ingredients, they’re incredibly simple to make. You don’t even have to use a cookie press if you don’t have one. Here’s a tutorial to help you get perfect results. 1. […]
For more than 35 years, the popular Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, attracted prominent visitors, including actors (Bette Davis, Gloria Swanson), athletes (Rocky Marciano, Joe DiMaggio), singers (Ethel Merman), composers (Cole Porter), and politicians (Eleanor Roosevelt, JFK). But the inn’s famous legacy is tied to a single day in the mid-1930s, when diners there […]
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Yankee Frugality Contest Winners
After learning untold uses for dryer lint, worn-out panty hose, and used dental floss, we present the winners of the Yankee frugality contest. In our September 1990 issue of Yankee Magazine, our issue devoted to Yankee frugality, we asked for your own frugal tips and anecdotes. You responded with more than 200 letters, many of […]
Food
Homemade Onion Dip
If your life is like mine, the holiday season means a calendar that’s jammed for six weeks with a series of parties and get-togethers where the main event is eating, eating, maybe some gift-giving, and then some more eating. This also means we spend a fair amount of time beforehand cooking, baking, and asking “What […]
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Cooking the Perfect Roast Chicken
Marjorie Druker, developer of the original recipes for Boston Chicken, says you can make any chicken recipe if you can make a great roast chicken.
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The Lure of a Simpler Life
If someone offered you a simpler life, would you take it? I did once. It was just before the birth of my son and I was working as a reporter for a daily newspaper in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The hours were unpredictable and the work was frustrating at best (covering territorial politics is a […]
Food
Shaker Cider Pie
Made with boiled cider and maple sugar, Shaker Cider Pie boasts robust old-fashioned flavor in a golden, buttery crust. Never heard of boiled cider? Once a popular pantry-staple along with molasses and maple syrup, boiled cider is made by simmering apple cider for hours until it reduces into a thick, syrupy consistency that’s full of […]