Food

The best chocolate desserts for a 9×9 pan are fudgy brownies, chocolate snack cake, hot fudge pudding cake, chocolate chip cookie bars, s’mores bars, no-bake chocolate oat bars, chocolate bread pudding and chocolate magic bars. A 9×9 pan holds about 81 square inches, so each of these makes 9 large or sixteen small squares, and […]

Yogurt yeast bread rolls are soft dinner rolls made with plain yogurt in the dough: 1 cup of yogurt, 3 1/2 cups bread flour, one packet of instant yeast, an egg and a little butter. After two rises they bake at 375°F for 18 to 22 minutes in a 9×13 pan and make 12 fluffy, […]

This spaghetti sauce for a crowd makes about 2 gallons of meat sauce, enough for 30 people at roughly 1 cup each, served over 7 to 8 pounds of dry spaghetti. It uses 5 pounds of ground beef, 2 pounds of Italian sausage and canned tomatoes, and simmers for about 2 hours in a 16-quart […]

This brownie recipe uses cocoa powder instead of chocolate and bakes in an 8×8 pan: 10 tablespoons butter, 1 1/4 cups sugar, 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa, 2 eggs and just 1/2 cup flour, baked at 350°F for 20 to 25 minutes. It makes 16 fudgy brownies with a shiny, crackly top. Cocoa brownies are the […]

Bread and butter pudding with no cream is made with a whole-milk custard instead: 2 1/2 cups milk, 3 eggs and a little sugar poured over buttered bread and sultanas, soaked for 20 minutes and baked at 350°F for 35 to 40 minutes. It comes out puffed and golden on top and softly set underneath. […]