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Last Updated November 09, 2019

Festive Holiday Punch (Non-Alcoholic)

Courtesy of Joy Manning, editor of Edible Philly. This festive looking punch provides guests with an enticing non-alcoholic option. The recipe doubles easily to serve a crowd. For an...

Fig Bourbon Sour

At the restaurant, I use New Liberty Distillery’s Bloody Butcher Bourbon, made in Philadelphia, for this recipe. Buffalo Trace Bourbon is also a good option.

Sourdough

The legacy of starters nearly disappeared from daily life with the emergence of commercial bread in the early twentieth century. Families may remember that Grandma had a blob, but didn’t know what...

Baking Sourdough Bread: Recipe

With this recipe as your guide, you can make sourdough bread, start to finish, in one day. The bread has a mild sourness and works well as a sandwich bread. Feel free to change the timing slightly....

Vegan and Gluten-Free Chocolate Banana Cake Recipe

Even though we make our own flour blends at the cafe, we recommend Bob's Red Mill gluten-free flour blend to the home cook because it contains xanthan gum, which can be expensive and is used sparingly...

Gingerbread Cookies Recipe

In the local bakeries of Europe, we found gingerbreads of all kinds. Crisp, soft, spiced, glazed, jeweled; the doughs were as unique as the bakers. When creating our own gingerbread, we tried to...

Candy Cane Dream Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

Buki Elegbede • Baked by Buki When I think of the holidays, the one thing I always think of are Andes Mints. My dad always used to get them, and although I’m actually not a mint or a...

Lillipies Sourdough English Muffins

Although this recipe takes three days from start to finish (more if you make your own starter from scratch), the active cooking time is relatively short and the finished product is well worth the...