Cakes, cookies

Think pie pastry is daunting? Try this 3-ingredient wonder

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Think pie pastry is daunting? Try this 3-ingredient wonder

   By Debra Samuels |  GLOBE CORRESPONDENT -October 8, 2013 Leslie Fishman says the recipe for apple pie she learned from her mother “became a family favorite for decades.” Her daughter is the third generation to make it. NEWTON — At some point everyone wants to try making America’s iconic dessert, apple pie. Just the …

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A Thanksgiving feast from our readers

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Our readers sent their favorite dishes to The Recipe Box Project and we put together a Thanksgiving menu. Not a green vegetable in the lot.

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Japanese American Matcha Mochi Cupcakes

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Japanese American Matcha Mochi Cupcakes

TOKYO – Many foods brought to America by new immigrants evolve into dishes that combine ingredients from both cultures. California rolls are a good example.

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Feast day calls for a special sweet

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Feast day calls for a special sweet

Photo by: Debra Samuels Zeppole with vanilla cream and amarena cherries By Debra Samuels Globe Correspondent / March 18, 2009 In Italy tomorrow, men named Joseph and women named Josephine will hand out zeppole, a Neopolitan pastry of fried dough filled with cream, to family and friends to mark the feast of San Giuseppe. Closer …

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A cookie contest keeps friends together through the years

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WEST PEABODY — They call themselves the Agawam Babes, and for 16 years, these girlhood friends have been getting together in each other’s homes for brunch and a cookie swap. It started as a way to stay connected despite marriages, kids, and jobs. The group has changed over the years, but the core has stayed …

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Competition cooks up at a 4-H county fairFood and Fun Club members put their kitchen skills to the test

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WESTFORD — Louise Donahue looks for an empty cake rack on her kitchen table, brimming with baked goods. “We’ve already had one disaster today,” she says as she sets down the hot pan of butterscotch bars her 10-year-old son, Greg, has prepared for the 51st annual Middlesex County 4-H Fair. The bars go next to …

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In the Lime-light

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MIAMI — Ask any five people about Key lime pie and they will agree on one thing only — it should never ever be green. ”Honey,” said the slight waitress with weather-beaten skin at a little dive called the Crack’d Conch (where the choices for dessert were a slice of Doris’s Key lime pie or …

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