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October 24th is National Good & Plenty Day, celebrating the oldest branded candy in the U.S. It’s an American version of the licorice pastilles that have been made in Europe for hundreds of years. Good & Plenty candies are narrow capsule shapes of sweet black licorice, coated in both bright pink and white hard candy…
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October 16th is World Bread Day. To celebrate the occasion, our colleague Hannah Kaminsky fulfilled a long-time goal: making homemade bagels. She finally found a recipe that overcame a barrier: “Traditional recipes call for lye, which is threatening enough to send me straight to the bakery, rather than the kitchen,” says Hannah. But then, a…
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[1] Fragrant and warm from the oven: Who can resist? (Photos #1 and #2 © My Bare Cupboard, which has a slightly different recipe.) [2] Take a bite! [3] Where would dessert be without the incredible, edible egg? (Photo © The Egg Farm.) Check out the different types of eggs in our Egg Glossary. See…
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October 31st is Halloween, and November 4th is National Candy Day. What’s a calorie-counting candy lover to do? Here are some of your best candy choices. Note that this is not permission to gorge on anything on the list. You should limit yourself to 150-calorie portions daily—and limit gorging to lettuce and celery. > The…
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Add even more fun to Halloween festivities for family and friends…for party hosts…for your workplace: Make a Halloween cake with a NordicWare cake mold. It requires no more time and talent than pouring a cake mix batter into the mold. The molds are artfully embossed, creating “cake sculptures” that need no added decoration. Of course,…
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