Fall means ripening apples eventually giving way to warm and toasty apple desserts. But what is the difference between apple desserts like apple crisp, apple crumble, apple cobbler and so on? Saturday ...

So who, or what, the heck is Brown Betty? Betties are baked, layered puddings that date to Colonial America, according to “The Food Lover’s Companion.” The layers came from (often brown) sugar and ...

Within two weeks, I have made peach cobbler, raspberry crisp, blueberry pie, and a few other fruit concoctions—I like to take advantage of the abundance of summer fruits. As I made a streusel topping ...

A few weeks back, I walked into the TV room to discover a disaster: my vintage classroom map of Asia — still on its original roller — had fallen off the wall. The peel-and-stick plastic hooks that had ...

As a lover of desserts, I am always excited to scan a dessert menu and find a warm, baked fruit dessert topped with a buttery, crispy topping and a scoop of ice cream. There is nothing fancy about ...

Linda Hinton Brown and Norrinda Brown Hayat, photos by Alison Conklin. Wiley, $22.99 (185p) ISBN 978-1-118-14435-0 Grandmom Betty’s namesake Philadelphia bakery, the Brown Betty Dessert Boutique (est.