There's nothing quite like a homemade biscuit to knock the socks off anything you'd grab from the shelves. Sure, it takes a bit more graft, but once you've had a crack at whipping up shortbread, ...

Lovina's family is observing Old Christmas/Epiphany with a family lunch. The family recently assisted with a pork butchering and celebrated two grandchildren's birthdays. High beef prices may prevent ...

The ship was leaving Scotland, bound for the United States. On board was a 19-year-old woman, moving from her home to Philadelphia for a job in home health care for a young woman who was dying. The ...

These old-fashioned cookies deserve a spot on every holiday cookie tray. Pam Lolley developed and tested recipes for Southern Living Magazine in the Souths most trusted Test Kitchen for 19 years. She ...

Recently, I’ve been on a roll with baking. That may not sound like a grand achievement to most, but it is to me, considering my shoebox New York City apartment has minimal (correction: abysmally ...

These delicate espresso shortbread cookies — a simple recipe with not too many ingredients — strike the perfect balance of coffee and brown butter. The brown butter has just enough caramel-y oomph to ...

Every self-respecting holiday cookie assortment includes shortbread, and these add a welcome citrusy brightness to all the other rich flavors, spices, chocolate, and nuts. For extra lemony flavor in ...

“I’m not a baker.” Maybe it’s what I do for a living, or maybe I just give off confidante energy, but I’ve lost track of how many times friends and strangers alike have felt compelled to confess this ...

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Sometimes you need one giant cookie for everyone to share. That idea is this cookie, made with a shortbread dough topped with almonds. Most shortbread is baked as one piece, scored first into lines, ...