In praise of: the cookie press.
The cookie press is one of my favorite vintage kitchen tools — and one of the most-used. Use a cookie press to make holiday cookies.
Category: Baking
Classic chocolate eclairs.
My Grandmother Ruth’s chocolate eclairs, a family Thanksgiving favorite, are legendary. I think she’ll be OK with my sharing her recipe.
The Clara Project: an update.
Through December, I’ll be sharing recipes from the 1930s for classic Christmas cookies and desserts … recipes your mother or grandmother might have made during the holiday.
The Clara Project: Old-fashioned applesauce cake.
This easy applesauce cake is comforting and fragrant with spices; it would be wonderful at Thanksgiving as a dessert or breakfast treat.
You can do it: Easy homemade bread.
If you’ve always thought making bread from scratch was too difficult, I’m here to tell you it’s easy and fun and well worth trying.
The Clara Project: simple old-fashioned sugar cookies.
If you love crispy, flavorful sugar cookies, you’ll love this easy and foolproof classic sugar cookie recipe. It’s perfect for making pretty fall leaf shapes.
The Clara Project: potato chip cookies.
You can whip up a batch of these fantastic old-fashioned potato chip cookies with 5 ingredients you probably have on hand in your kitchen.
Homemade granola bars.
To date, I’ve posted four recipes for homemade granola made with agave, oats and other natural ingredients. Maybe I have some kind of granola fetish, I don’t know. I love it with milk for breakfast, out …
The Clara Project: classic homemade doughnut recipe.
This recipe for old-fashioned donuts is just as easy to make as a batch of pancakes. Enjoy these for weekend breakfast or on Halloween with a cup of cider.
