A cherry scone, with tablecloth embroidered by my British Aunt B. ♦ ♦ ♦ Welcome to the world, little Prince of Cambridge. At my house, we celebrated your arrival with cherry scones and a pot of Earl Grey tea. I happen to like scones for breakfast, which means getting up early to have them baked before a…
Category: Quick Breads
Carrot Cake
I’d rather call this Carrot Bread until Lent is over, if you know what I mean. It’s baked in a loaf pan, it has no frosting, and it’s full of fruit, nuts, and vegetables. It’s practically a baked salad. Okay, that last part’s a stretch, but if you get a hankering for a lushly textured…
Here’s your other banana bread recipe.
Weren’t you looking for one? This recipe is adapted from a local community cookbook, Rave Reviews by the Junior League of North Little Rock (© 1982). Banana bread recipes are everywhere, but this one has crushed pineapple in it, and that makes it sing. I reduce the fat by substituting a single-serving package of unsweetened…
Cranberry-Orange Scones
Bits of the old country weave in and out of my cooking. My mother was British, and while she became adept at frying chicken parts and stuffing Thanksgiving turkeys to feed her American family, from her kitchen occasionally came treats like sausage rolls, trifles, and Bakewell tarts. Her scones were plain, lightly sweetened, and usually…
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