Baking

This recipe makes 2 small loaves of cornmeal bread: you can freeze 1 loaf, wrapped in plastic wrap, up to 2 weeks.

Traditional New York-style salt sticks are chewy and dense because they are usually made from the same dough as bagels. These are softer and more delicate and make fine dinner or sandwich rolls.

It's hard to believe that there are only three tablespoons of butter in these biscuits, which are flaky and very tender. Malted milk powder is an interesting addition to the dough.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

This cake should not be assembled until just before serving.

This recipe is used to prepare Beef En Croûte with Coriander Walnut Filling.

(Chick-Pea Flatbread with Sage)

"As a kid, I'd accompany my mother to her job at the racetrack, where she would lead the horses out to the starting gate," writes Michael Hunter of Studio City, California. "Eventually I was helping out in the stalls, and when I got older, I became a jockey. My mother was also the person who, in a roundabout way, inspired my other passion: cooking. I'd come home from school, and she would have prepared something from a box or can. I didn't always like what was on the dinner table, so one day I asked her to buy me a cookbook. Pretty soon I was making dinner for us almost every night. Now, after seventeen years of racing horses and cooking for family and friends, I'm making the jump to professional cooking."

To bake these tartlet shells all at once, you will need 50 tartlet pans, each 2 inches in diameter (across the top) and 1/2 inch deep. However, you could also make these tartlets in batches, using fewer pans.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.