Brown Sugar Pound Cake + More Recipes

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Brown Sugar Pound Cake

This brown sugar pound cake with caramel glaze is dense, rich, and incredibly sweet, as most things Southern tend to be.

A frosted brown sugar pound cake on a white plate on a cloth-covered picnic table.

Adapted from Nancie McDermott | Southern Cakes | Chronicle, 2007

This brown sugar pound cake is perhaps the most aptly titled cake there ever was seeing as it calls for an entire 1-pound box of brown sugar. What results is a deep, rich, sweet, traditional Southern dessert. (And surely you know just how notorious Southerners...

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Cashew Chicken

This cashew chicken is close to the real Cantonese deal. It calls for chicken thighs, ginger, and garlic to be stir-fried with sugar snaps and carrots in a simple, barely there sauce made with rice vinegar and soy sauce. Done in 30 minutes. And darn near keto.

Bowl of cashew chicken with chunks of stir-fried chicken, carrots, sugar snap peas, celery, cashews

Adapted from Grace Young | Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge | Simon & Schuster, 2010

One of the most beloved Chinese recipes in America, cashew chicken classically consists of dark meat...

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Ep. 23: Southern Cooking with Rebecca Lang

There’s a lot we non-Southerners don’t know or understand about traditional Southern cooking. First, there’s the history. Second, the gentility that comes through in every aspect of cooking, from the equipment to the setting of the table. Third, the fried chicken. Fourth, the pimento cheese. (Yes, it merits a category of its own.) We...

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What is the Difference Between Yeasts?

Ever wonder what the difference is between the various types of yeast, how to best use them, or if you can swap them with each other? Us, too. Read on to discover the answers to those questions and more.

Yeast. It’s a type of microscopic living organism that exists everywhere and, when captured and used in wily ways, not only ensures your breads achieve that lovely rise but also lends itself to the making of some of our other favorite food...

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14 Rhubarb Recipes

SLIDESHOW: Pretty in pink takes on new meaning with these spectacular—and spectacularly surprising—recipes for the darling of spring.

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