Family Recipes - Candace Shaw

Most of the recipes I post here are those that we’ve collected over the years, and I’m putting online for easy access for myself and my family. I hope they’ll be useful to you, too – please let us know if you’ve enjoyed them, or if you’ve made modifications to make them better!

If a recipe is in bold below, that means I’ve updated it within the last couple of years (2017 – present) – I’ve gone through and revised for clarity and included better pictures. I’ve learned a lot about writing recipes over the past decade, and my standards (and tastes!) have changed a lot since I started posting recipes ten years ago.

Note: the way I write recipes sometimes looks intimidating, because I break down every action into a new step, which seems like a lot. Most recipe writers prefer to minimize the number of steps to make the recipes look easier, but I find that leads to more stress and confusion, and often mistakes which mean the end result isn’t great. So a recipe that may have 5-8 steps in one version may have 20+ in mine – sometimes (like with my baking and canning recipes) that’s because I’m including information that it’s assumed you already know, and sometimes it’s just a different style of breaking down the steps.

You can scroll though all of my recipes below, or use these links to jump to the following categories on this page:

Baking
Blue-Ribbon Pies
Savoury Recipes
Salads
Pasta
Dips and Spreads
Soups
Mains
Campfire Cooking
Canning and Preserving
Shaw Christmas Favourites

Blue-Ribbon Pies

Pie Pastry

Apple Pie

Pecan Pie

Pumpkin Pie

Concord Grape Pie

Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie

Honey-Ginger Pumpkin Pie

Nana-Approved Turkey Pot Pie

Savoury Recipes

Camping Recipes

Dutch Oven Campfire Bread

Salted Golden Caramel Bars

Canning & Preserving

Crab Apple Jelly

Canning Peaches – Hot Pack Method

Preserved Lemons

Dill Pickles

Dilly Beans

Pickled Onions

Roasted Red Pepper Ketchup

Mango Chutney

Spiced Pickled Beets

Baking Recipes

Savoury Baking Recipes

Mom’s Bread

Garlic-Cheddar Biscuits

Nana’s Tea Biscuits

Baguettes

Croissants

Sweet Baking Recipes

Muffins

Cranberry Muffins

Cupcakes

Fairy Cupcakes

Chocolate Cupcakes

Cookies & Bite-Sized Treats

Mini Doughnuts

Apple Cider Mini-Doughnuts with Maple Glaze

Ginger Cookies

Rachel’s Oatmeal (and Chocolate Chip) Cookies

Snickerdoodles

Bars

Leah Hyslop’s Fabulous Brownies

Sammi’s Fabulous Brownies

Salted Golden Caramel Bars

Crepes & Pancakes

Nana Cynthia’s Crepes

Buttermilk Pancakes

Cakes & Tarts

London Chocolate Chip Cheesecake

Blackberry Tart

Lemon Cake (Vegan!)

Cassie’s Banana Bread

Cardamom and Pear Caramel Cake

Cinnamon Rolls

Other Sweets

Pina Colada Popsicles

Candy

Penuche (Brown Sugar Fudge)

Beverages

Lemon Winter Warmer

Shaw Family Christmas Recipes

These are the recipes we use every year for our family Christmas get-togethers; I’m rolling them out weekly in November/December 2017. Let me know in the comments if you’ve tried them, how they turned out, and your family Christmas food traditions!

Treats

Ginger Cookies

Snickerdoodles

Penuche (Brown Sugar Fudge)

Christmas Morning

Croissants

Christmas Morning Berry Strata

Family Dinner

Roast Turkey – I’m just linking to the Canadian Living page on roasting a turkey, because that’s my go-to, and you can’t go wrong with Canadian Living

Glazed Baked Ham – in 2019, we decided to opt for a ham instead of a turkey, and it was so much faster and easier, as well as being delicious.

Cranberry Sauce

Turkey Stuffing

Turkey Gravy

Bûche de Noël – This is the one we use; the other is good, but not amazing like this one is.

Bûche de Noël – This one is decent, and photographs beautifully, but it’s not as delicious as the other one.

Leftovers

Hot Turkey Sandwiches

Nana-Approved Turkey Pot Pie

New Year’s Eve Dinner

Chocolate Pavlova with Fresh Fruit

Festive Drinks – Historic Recipes

Inspired by a trip to the 2019 Genesee Domestic Skills Symposium in November, I decided to do a series of festive recipes for drinks based on historic sources. You can find the recipes below, along with some of the historic sources I found.
Note: These recipes generally involve alcoholic drinks that have been heated; despite the common misconception, heating things with alcohol in them doesn’t ‘boil off’ the alcohol. These will be only marginally less alcoholic than they would be is they weren’t heated. Also, heated alcohol seems to go to your head faster, so y’know, pace yourself.

Lamb’s Wool

Eggnog

Mulled Wine – Glühwein

Mulled Ale – Wassail