A stop at Illinois’ Apple Barn turns into cider donuts, gooey desserts, and that rare feeling of a place done right. Hard to ...

For quite a few years, I’ve been stymied by finding a cake donut recipe that I truly like, and that works. Either the dough is impossible to work with (overly runny, impossible to roll out) or they ...

Jeannie Armstrong from Dayton, Md., found a recipe for a brown sugar pie in a cookbook she bought at an antique store years ago. It was first published in 1915 and revised in 1944. I tested the recipe ...