Recipe Index: Molasses

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Anadama Bread
Anadama Bread
Have you ever had Anadama bread? It's a traditional dark yeast bread from New England. Please welcome Hank Shaw as he shares the recipe for this delicious loaf he made for us the other day. ~Elise My mum was never...
Boston Brown Bread
Boston Brown Bread
Holy North End Batman, this molasses-rich, dense brown bread from Hank is good. We've made it four times in the last month. Yum! ~Elise Boston Brown bread makes me think of my mother, a native of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Disks of...
Giant Ginger Cookies
Giant Ginger Cookies
My friend Suzanne's daughter Audrey loves to cook. When Audrey and I were first getting to know each other she made me a batch of her favorite giant ginger cookies. (She thinks she got the recipe from an old Sunset...
Gingerbread Cake
Gingerbread Cake
Time for gingerbread! Please welcome Garrett McCord who has whipped up this beautiful dark and gingery gingerbread for us. ~Elise I get cravings throughout the year for the spicy, treacly flavor of gingerbread. Sure, I can easily satisfy myself come...
Gingerbread Cupcakes
Gingerbread Cupcakes
Please welcome guest author Garrett McCord of Vanilla Garlic as he kicks off our holiday baking season with gingerbread cupcakes. ~Elise As much as I love gingerbread, it’s a pain to make. The last time I made it I was...
Gingerbread Man Cookies
Gingerbread Man Cookies
No cookie says Christmas more than a gingerbread man cookie. It's been thirty years since I last made gingerbread men, and it took all weekend to get this recipe right. After starting with a truly terrible recipe from a 1974...
Gingersnap Cookies
Gingersnap Cookies
My mother doesn't bake. She's a great cook, but she avoids recipes and baking usually entails rather particular recipes, so she leaves the baking to my father and me. She also has a well developed sweet tooth, so when she...
Guinness Bread with Molasses
Guinness Bread with Molasses
Please welcome guest author Hank Shaw of Hunter, Angler, Gardener, Cook who shares his favorite Guinness bread recipe. ~Elise This is just about the easiest sweet bread I know; it takes precious little thought to make, tastes wonderful with sweet...
Hank's Barbecue Sauce
Hank's Barbecue Sauce
Please welcome guest author Hank Shaw who shares the recipe for his favorite BBQ sauce with us. This sauce is, btw, outrageously good. ~Elise All barbecue cooks have their own "secret sauce," but for the most part, each relies on...
Molasses Spice Cookies
Molasses Spice Cookies
Molasses spice cookies are sort of like ginger snaps except bigger and chewy. The recipe for these cookies comes from Cook's Illustrated's The Best Recipe cookbook. Here's a hint on preparation - don't reduce the amount of sugar, the cookies...
Pumpkin Gingerbread
Pumpkin Gingerbread
This has to be the weirdest fall ever. High seventies on the first day of November. Beautiful and sunny, though the wind has picked up a bit. The gusts come and go, stirring up leaves from the trees, so it's...
Slow Cooked Boston Baked Beans
Slow Cooked Boston Baked Beans
Ever wonder why Boston baked beans are called "Boston" baked beans? It's the molasses. Boston has been tied to molasses since colonial days, when the city was a trade center for rum from the Caribbean. Molasses is used for rum...