Smoked Cheddar Pancakes With Pickled Beets
For the best texture, make sure not to overstir the pancake batter; it should be a bit lumpy before you fold in the cheese and green onions. Store-bought pickled beets make a super-quick and tasty garnish.
For the best texture, make sure not to overstir the pancake batter; it should be a bit lumpy before you fold in the cheese and green onions. Store-bought pickled beets make a super-quick and tasty garnish.
Lucy Maud Montgomery was not only an accomplished writer, she was also a great cook and neatly wrote her recipes in a ledger. This delicious moist cake from Marion (Webb) Laird appears on a well-worn page in the ledger. A selection of Montgomery's recipes, including this one, was published in Aunt Maud's Recipe Book (Moulin Publishing Limited, 1996), compiled by Elaine and Kelly Crawford, Marion's daughter and granddaughter, respectively. Marion's mother, Myrtle Macneill, was Montgomery's third cousin and she lived in the real-life Green Gables.
Look for dried lavender in spice aisles of gourmet stores—don't be tempted to use fresh flowers as not all varieties are edible. Reserve the zested lemons for flavouring water or freezing the juice for another use.
Dust off your mother's Bundt pan—the retro ring-shaped cake is back in style, and we're celebrating with this show-stopping dessert.
These moulded aniseed cookies get their festive designs with a special deeply patterned rolling pin. It is said that traditionally children were each presented with their own personal springerle moulds made of wood or metal.
This moist, tender coffee cake scented with lemon and nutmeg is a farmhouse classic that's sturdy enough to carry to picnics or potlucks. It is irresistible with coffee or a glass of milk, especially when still warm from the oven.
This classic flavour combination is a great way to add a tart-sweet zip to a peanut butter cookie. Any flavour of jam or jelly can be used, though smoother, less chunky ones are the easiest to spread or pipe.
With a hint of coffee and lots of hazelnuts, this European-style cake is drier than North American–style coffee cakes, but it's sure to impress guests with its old-world charm. The chocolate hazelnut glaze adds a rich, luxurious finish. Look for toasted skinned hazelnuts in the bulk section of your grocery store.
Multigrain flour, rolled oats and wheat germ give these quite chewy pancakes a wholesome flavour. Multigrain flour is a combination of all-purpose and whole wheat flours, cracked wheat and rye and whole flaxseeds. For a less chewy version, substitute whole wheat flour for the multigrain.
