10,000 buttery recipes

Nut crescents: buttery shortbread cookies shaped into crescents, dipped in egg white and a nut-sugar coating, baked golden, then dusted with powdered sugar. A holiday cookie classic.

Dark, hearty pumpernickel bread studded with raisins, made easy in a bread machine. Rye flour, cocoa, molasses, and cinnamon create a deeply flavored loaf with old-world character.

Indian curry gravy base with garlic, ginger, onion, and tomato purees cooked in ghee with turmeric, cumin, and curry powder. Make 10 portions and freeze for quick curries.

Cranberry orange bread folds whole tart cranberries and chopped nuts into a quick bread brightened with fresh orange juice and zest. A Christmas-classic loaf that gets better the day after baking.

Chocolate silk pie with a no-bake filling whipped silky-smooth by beating eggs into creamed butter, sugar, and unsweetened chocolate. Chilled in a flaky shell and crowned with billowy whipped cream.

Old-fashioned yeast-raised doughnuts perfumed with warm nutmeg, built on an overnight sponge for a light, pillowy crumb. Rolled, cut, and fried golden, just like the bakery doughnuts of years past.

Simple Irish soda-style bread with butter, raisins, and no yeast. Creamed butter and sugar give it a tender, cake-like crumb. Just mix and bake.

Kiss cookies tuck a whole chocolate kiss inside a buttery walnut shortbread, baked until just set and rolled in powdered sugar. Crack one open and the melty chocolate middle is the payoff. An easy holiday cookie that keeps for days.

Serve with vanilla icecream or a dollop of best available double cream

A paprika-rubbed whole roasted chicken stuffed with garlic, orange peel, bay leaves, and rosemary, finished with a reduced pan sauce. Sunday dinner at its finest.

Poppy seed pound cake muffins made with butter, yogurt, and vanilla for a dense, tender crumb. Bakery-style muffins with a subtle crunch from poppy seeds.

Leek pizza with butter-sauteed leeks, Roma tomatoes, and crumbled feta cheese on a prebaked shell. A white pizza with no red sauce that lets the sweet caramelized leeks shine.

Semolina halwa sweetened with sugar syrup, cooked in ghee, and perfumed with cardamom and rosewater. Studded with pistachios and almonds, then cut into diamond shapes.

Tender tube cake with walnuts and orange zest, soaked in amaretto-orange syrup while still hot. Moist, boozy, and bursting with citrus flavor.

Eggnog pound cake infused with holiday eggnog, flaked coconut, and lemon-vanilla extracts, baked in a tube pan until dense, buttery and fragrant. A festive dessert that keeps for days.

Lamb chops wrapped in phyllo with peas, potato balls, tomatoes, and kasseri cheese bake into golden Greek parcels that surprise with every bite.