Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Recipe
This is a simple recipe for classic chewy oatmeal raisin cookies. This will become a family favorite you’ll make year after year.
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Sweet Cornbread Recipe
This is a very basic, dense, slightly sweet cornbread recipe. It is not to be confused with cornbread cake which, as one may imagine, is even sweeter and more cake like. Corncakes usually contain flour to lighten the batter. The recipe as written below is safe for those on a gluten-free diet as long as …
Why Does My Oven Burn My Biscuit Bottoms
Dear Home-Ec 101, My oven burns pizza and biscuits on the bottom and the top is under-done. Help! Signed, Pastry Proselyte in Provence Heather says: There are many factors that could be at play inside your oven, it’s going to take some detective work on your part to get to the [burnt] bottom of your …
Tomato Pie
A long time ago, I stumbled upon the deliciousness that is tomato pie with bacon and onions. The framework for this recipe can be credited to Paula Deen, but it has been played with enough to call it my own. I first posted this recipe back in 2013, and now I’m editing this once again …
Why Does My Cornbread Burn on the Bottom?
Dear Home-Ec 101, How do you keep the bottom of the cornbread from burning? I use an electric oven and I’ve tried putting my muffin pan on the higher rack but that didn’t help. The bottom burns but the top stays light. Signed, I Would Prefer Cajun Style Blackening Heather says: It’s fairly common for …
Banana Muffins
Heather says: Muffin recipes are a great introduction to baking. They aren’t fussy and a flat muffin is still a delicious muffin. Don’t get smug and try to pass these off as health food; they aren’t. They are however delicious and semi-portable. What is semi-portable? Great in a lunch bag, not so great while driving. …
Chocolate Biscotti Recipe
Heather says: What’s your favorite cookie? Mine is the very simple chocolate biscotti. I prefer this recipe without the chocolate chips and with the walnuts, but since I was making it for the family, they got it their way. Biscotti is actually an ancient technique for making food fit for travel. Consequently biscotti is suitable …
Meringue 101: The Great Meringue Caper
Heather says: I’m out of town, getting my geek on at a the Type-A Mom Blog Conference. Patrick Stuckart, an excellent photographer and all around cool guy (don’t let him say otherwise), volunteered to write this post on his meringue making adventure. As I occasionally try to engage the brain cells I still have, I …
How to Keep a Cake from Sticking to the Cooling Rack
Dear Home Ec 101,I really need help. I found an awesome chocolate cake recipe and can keep the cake from sticking to the pan with the parchment paper/oiled/flour method. However, once the cake is on the wire rack, that’s another story. It sinks into the wires and sticks to the rack. When I try to remove it, it rips and breaks …
Biscuit Recipe, No Knead
These are the simplest, pillow-soft, no-knead biscuits you’ll ever make. I’ve been wanting to try out coconut oil as a substitute for vegetable shortening in my biscuit recipe, but I haven’t been in a biscuit-making mood for months. Last night I celebrated meeting a deadline by making country-fried steak and there was leftover milk gravy …