Baked recipes

Blueberry muffins

A good blueberry muffin is tall, tender and crackly on top, with berries all the way through. This one teaches restraint: a lumpy batter, a few quick folds and a hot oven do more for you than any special ingredient.

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Breads

Buttermilk biscuits

Tall, flaky biscuits come down to three habits: cold butter, a light hand and a hot oven. Once those are yours, you can have a pan of biscuits on the table any morning from flour, butter and buttermilk.

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Pies

Quiche Lorraine

A crisp, buttery shell holding a barely set custard studded with bacon. Most of the time is the dough chilling and the quiche baking and resting, so it's a good weekend project that also works a day ahead. It teaches flaky pastry, blind baking so the bottom stays crisp, and baking a custard low so it stays silky.

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