Tag: Christmas

• 18th Century Coriander Christmas Cookies

  

  Is there such a thing as recipe fatigue? Lately I feel drawn to recipes that are much simpler but usually have a distinctive look and/or ingredient. Like these cookies! They are like little pillows, and are kind of chewy and have such strong coriander flavor, and…that’s it! And that’s enough for me! Plus, they are great dunking-in-coffee-or-tea…

  Dave G

  December 9, 2017

  18th century early american recipe, baked goods, baking, christmas, christmas cookies, food blogging

  18th century recipe, Christmas, Christmas cookies, coriander, coriander cookies, early american cookie recipe

• New Year’s Day–Buns!

  

  Two things about this. One, I didn’t make them on St. Lucia Day, like I should’ve, which was on December 13th. They are basically the recipe for St. Lucia Buns, or Lussekatter, from Joe Pastry. Second, I only had about 1/4th of the saffron needed, so I made them without the saffron. In tasting the finished product,…

  Dave G

  January 1, 2014

  baked goods, buns, christmas, sweet rolls, yeast breads

  baked goods, baking, buns, Christmas, lussekatter, saffron, st. lucia buns, st. lucia day

• Now bring us some non-figgy pudding-like chocolate cupcakes, now bring us some non-figgy pudding-like chocolate cupcakes…

  Is it wrong to make something look one way, but taste another way? I came across this recipe while searching online for figgy pudding. I don’t know exactly what figgy pudding is supposed to look like, but doesn’t this look like it could be a steamed pudding with figs in it? I thought so. I…

  Dave G

  December 22, 2013

  baked goods, cakes, christmas, dessert

  baked goods, baking, chocolate cake, chocolate cupcakes, Christmas, cupcakes, dessert, Pudding