10,000 butter recipes

Sole fillets wrapped around crisp-tender carrot strips and topped with Italian bread crumbs, melted butter, and lemon juice. A light, elegant baked fish dinner that comes together in under an hour.

Old-fashioned chopped beef liver spread with hard-boiled eggs, onions, and melted butter. Molded in a loaf pan and served chilled on crackers or toast as an appetizer or lunch.

Roquefort and cheddar cheese biscuits coated in toasted sesame seeds. Savory, crumbly bite-sized appetizers baked golden in just ten minutes.

Finnish curd cake (rahkakakku) built on a buttered breadcrumb crust with sieved cottage cheese, cardamom, ginger, and citrus zest folded through a tender flour batter.

Traditional Scottish currant shortbread squares plumped with orange juice and baked into a buttery, sandy crumb. Six ingredients, an old-country recipe, and a finish made for an afternoon cup of tea.

Orange you glad to have found this succulent dish made with rainbow trout fillets, mandarin oranges, and a drop of vodka?

Asparagus spears wrapped in ham slices and baked under a homemade cheddar cheese sauce with dry mustard. A retro-style ham and asparagus roll-up that makes a satisfying weeknight dinner in about 35 minutes.

Italian layered sponge cake with rum, custard cream filling, coffee zabaglione buttercream, walnuts, and chocolate-dipped almonds. An elegant multi-component dessert.

Pan-fried sea scallops with a crispy bread crumb crust, sauteed in butter with a quick white wine pan sauce. Served over rice for an elegant 30-minute dinner.

Broccoli rice casserole with cheddar and cream of mushroom soup, baked until bubbly. A crowd-pleasing side dish that comes together in minutes.

Grilled chicken breasts marinated in lemon-garlic butter, then brushed with orange marmalade for a sticky, citrus-sweet glaze and golden char. Bright, simple grilling with pantry staples.

Applesauce raisin and nut cake bakes a moist, cinnamon-scented sheet cake using hot applesauce, butter, raisins, and chopped nuts. Old-fashioned thrifty home cake, no eggs needed.

Coconut cream pie with silky custard filling, shredded coconut, and a cloud of stabilized meringue baked to golden peaks. Old-school diner pie at its finest.

Ham rolls with grapes and tomato cream sauce is an elegant little main: thin ham rolled and warmed, then napped in a silky strained tomato cream studded with wine-poached green grapes. Bistro flair, surprisingly simple.

Old-fashioned chocolate sticks: a thin pan of dense fudgy chocolate-nut batter cut into slim rectangles after baking. Half-cookie, half-brownie bar made for coffee or after-dinner trays.

Rosky's (Czech rohlíky): cream cheese pastry cookies filled with apricot, dusted with powdered sugar. The Old World holiday cookie your grandmother kept on the tin every Christmas.