Dessert ideas for your spring fruit, plus readers’ favorite sweet and savory uses for lemons. By Tejal Rao We usually focus on savory recipes here, but I’m a former pastry cook, and I love dessert. On ...

Rose, jasmine, honeysuckle, lavender -- are pure romance. And lemon verbena, that wonderfully aromatic herb with slender green leaves, may be the most romantic of them all. Its captivating perfume is ...

This cake, inspired by the great baker Maida Heatter’s recipe, gets hits of lemon three times: zest and juice in the cake, a clear soaking syrup that seeps into the cake and, finally, a creamy, thick ...

This lemonade syrup is better than the concentrate you can buy at the store. Made with only four ingredients, you may have them in your kitchen already. Use the syrup to make one of the recipes Amy ...

Making simple syrup is ridiculously easy — boil sugar and water — but most cocktail formulas call for only a spoonful. Do I really want to wash a pot just to have a splash of plain liquefied sugar? I ...