Raisin

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

(CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH NUTS AND RAISINS) Here is a chocolate cake that will delight your palate. Use the best bittersweet chocolate you can find!

It is no coincidence that the method used to bake this bread, steaming, is similar to one used by the native Indians of New England, who taught us how to use corn as a grain for bread. The most famous of our region's breads, this wholesome blend of wheat, rye, and corn flours is suitable for our diets today as it was 300 years ago.

Serve this warm over pancakes or waffles.

This duck recipe is unusually light and delicate.

Lavash, a Middle Eastern flatbread, comes in a variety of sizes and textures, from crisp rectangular crackers to large folded pliable rounds. It is the latter called for here. To form the lavash into cups, you'll need a pan with 12 mini-muffin (1/8-cup) molds, each about 1 3/4 inches across the top and 3/4 inch deep. Caponata is a piquant Sicilian dish of eggplant, onions, tomatoes, anchovies, olives, and capers, generously laced with olive oil; this variation is much lighter-and contains no added fat-because it omits the oil, anchovies, and olives.

Called limpa in Sweden, this impressive bread is flavored with a combination of molasses, orange peel, crushed aniseed, and caraway and fennel seeds.

This sweet raisin-filled yeast bread has origins in Austria, but has since become a specialty of the Alsace region of France and is often served for breakfast or brunch.

Washington pears and California raisins complement each other deliciously. This is perfect with vanilla ice cream.

This recipe is an accompaniment for Pear Charlottes with Chamomile Crème Anglaise .

Filled with raisins and brown sugar and baked in Marsala and cider, these apples make a warming ending to the meal. Accompany them with vanilla ice cream and some purchased almond biscotti.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less. Makes use of the microwave oven.

(Corn Tortillas with Sweet-and-Savory Ground Pork)

A favorite of Nancy's son.