544 baking soda recipes

Quick bread mix combines whole-wheat and all-purpose flours with baking powder, soda, cinnamon, and salt for a make-ahead 2½ cup pantry staple. Use in mango pecan, banana, or zucchini quick breads.

Homemade funnel cake with a simple batter of flour, egg, and milk fried golden in swirling patterns and dusted with powdered sugar. County fair flavor at home.

Low-sugar blender brownies made with applesauce instead of butter and sugar substitute for a lighter treat. Chewy, fudgy, and ready in under 30 minutes.

Cardamom aebleskiver: Danish-style round pancake balls cooked in a special aebleskive pan, lightly spiced with cardamom and served hot with powdered sugar and jam.

Blushing grapefruit marmalade turns ruby red grapefruit and lemon into a pink-blush preserve with bittersweet citrus depth. A traditional small-batch marmalade with liquid pectin set.

Authentic biscotti di Prato (cantucci): the traditional Tuscan twice-baked almond cookies, made with no butter for a hard, crunchy bite built for dunking in coffee or vin santo.

Old-fashioned stew dumplings with cream of tartar and baking soda for lift. Five pantry ingredients, no butter or eggs needed, ready in 20 minutes.

No-sugar raisin bars sweetened only with raisins and unsweetened apple juice, made with whole wheat flour and warm spices. Low calorie and naturally sweet.

Old-fashioned sour cream cookies with nutmeg, rolled and cut into rounds with a sugar-sprinkled top. Soft, tender, and lightly spiced with a big-batch yield of 60 cookies.

English toasting bread made in a bread machine with bread flour, milk, cornmeal, and a touch of baking soda. A soft, slightly tangy white loaf that crisps beautifully when toasted.

Old-fashioned 14-day sweet pickles using small cucumbers, brined and gradually sweetened in cinnamon-celery seed syrup. Heritage canning recipe with crisp results.

Homemade Grape-Nuts cereal from scratch with graham flour, buttermilk, and syrup. Baked into a thin slab, ground through a food chopper, then crisped again for that signature crunch.

Honey drops candy boils pure honey with butter and a splash of lemon to hard ball stage, then pulls into chewy white taffy with a porous, melt-on-the-tongue texture.

Pickled or corned beef (or venison): a traditional barrel-cure brine for beef or wild game using salt, saltpeter, and molasses. Old-fashioned homesteader method for preserving large cuts.

Gingerbread house dough that bakes rock-solid for sturdy construction. Built with shortening, dark molasses, and a generous hit of cinnamon and ginger. Cuts cleanly, holds shapes, makes 5 walls.

Low-calorie sausage and cheese biscuits with turkey sausage, bran, buttermilk, and reduced-fat cheddar. A lighter take on a breakfast classic.