Cheesy Cornbread is amazing when cooked in an iron frying pan. Of course you can bake it in a pie plate or casserole, but the iron frying pan adds a nice crispness to the crust. I inherited my Mother’s iron … Continue reading
Category Archives: Quick Breads
Irish Soda Bread is a perfect accompaniment to Irish Stew on St. Patrick’s Day. It is also very yummy with soup, and/or salad. It is the reaction of the baking soda and buttermilk that makes this bread rise and gives … Continue reading
Delicious, no-muss, no-fuss, no-yeast Beautiful Beer Bread which is great with soup, salad or stew. The mustard brings out the flavour of the cheese. The cheese and sesame seeds add a nice taste to the crust. … Continue reading
Apple Coffee Cake is an old fashioned coffee cake made with basic ingredients from your larder and topped with an apple cinnamon layer. The Farmer’s market has now closed and will re-open in the spring There was a real flurry … Continue reading
Cinnamon Sugar Pear Cake is a lovely fresh pear cake that is great for dessert or can be served as a breakfast bread. It can be served warm or at room temperature. It will keep covered on the counter for … Continue reading
When developing a Pioneer Theme for the classroom, one teacher decided to to have volunteers teach the children to make homemade raspberry jam and Butter Flake Biscuits (very back to basic recipes that might have been made in olden times). … Continue reading
As some of our family headed off to the festivities at the Cranberry Marsh in Bala today…those left at home were making Cranberry Sauce and Cranberry Scones. We purchased our fresh cranberries at the Farmer’s Market on Friday. Cranberry Scones … Continue reading
Today is the first day of autumn. What better way to celebrate than with a harvest meal. We have here another recipe that uses Bisquick baking mix. Beer and Cheese Muffins are quick to make and a tasty bread to … Continue reading
Pineapple Banana Bread generously fills two loaf pans or a bundt pan. The combination of bananas and pineapple makes for a very moist quick bread. You might ask what defines a quick bread. A quick bread is a bread made … Continue reading
Many years ago, it became our family’s tradition to make Scottish Scones for breakfast on the day after I made Strawberry Jam, ostensibly to test out the new jam. Grammy’s Scottish Scones are made by cutting butter into a flour/baking … Continue reading