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Posts tagged “molasses”

Baking Tip: Make Your Own Brown Sugar

We don't go through brown sugar very quickly, and our supply inevitably becomes hard and difficult to use. Since we learned this tip, we've stopped buying it all together. We just mix plain sugar with...

Cool Weather Recipe: Gingersnaps

A handful of gingersnaps, a cup of tea, and a cool fall afternoon - what could be better? These cookies are wonderfully snappy a first bite, but then melt into gingery goodness on your tongue. We neve...

Quebecois Feves au Lard, or Maple Baked Beans
Guest Post from Diana of The Economical Epicurean

It’s no surprise that baked beans are a new favorite subject among food bloggers: they are incredibly cheap, laughably low-maintenance, and perfect for a summer barbecue or camping trip. I always ma...

National Food Roundup: Sweet Pea Soup
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 03.25.09

We enjoy a nice bowl of pea soup, usually despite the muddled green color. This barely cooked sweet pea version, however, sounds so tasty and looks anything but dull. ...

What's the Deal with Blackstrap Molasses?

As the star ingredient in cookies, cakes, and other holiday baking, molasses really gets its heyday this time of year! But not all kinds can be used interchangeably, particularly blackstrap molasses.....

Recipe: Mini Molasses Cookies with Lemon Filling

Sandwich cookies have a nearly irresistible appeal for me - I really can't pass up tiny cookies with something gooey in the middle. Why is that, I wonder? Childhood nostalgia? Two cookies for the pric...