Getting back to Monroe reader Martha Patterson’s request for a taffy recipe that would match her memories of the one her family made in an iron skillet on a coal-burning stove in the 1930s, two ...

The 19th-century cooks who came up with the chocolate-caramel recipe used molasses not for its subtlety but for its price. Tim Richardson writes in “Sweets: A History of Candy” that after the ...

The “chocolate chip” name wasn’t associated with the cookies until “some time in 1940,” she writes, “thanks to various newspaper articles and recipes about various cookies and their ...

1. In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and salt. Set aside. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment or using a handheld mixer, cream ...