7 Winter Comfort Food Recipes
When you have wild winter weather you need cozy winter comfort food to go with it – hearty food that sticks to your ribs and makes you feel warm all over. Here are seven of our best recipes for winter comfort food, from bread, to beans, to soaked gingerbread cake…
To help get you through the winter – and the next storm – We are sharing some of our most popular comfort food recipes.
Molasses Baked Beans with Sass
And old fashioned, New England-style baked beans recipe that we have been making for years.
Gluten Free Molasses Baked Beans With A Twist
An old fashioned recipe for baked beans with lots of flavour and lovely texture. (Classic taste — no tomato or ketchup.) Freeze for up to three months.
- Prep Time: 12 hours
- Cook Time: 4 hours
- Total Time: 16 hours
- Yield: 8-10 1x
- Category: Savoury Dishes
Ingredients
- 2 cups dried navy or pea beans
- 1 small onion, peeled
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup Crosby’s Fancy Molasses
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 1/2 tsp. dried mustard
- 1/2 tsp. freshly ground black pepper
- 1 slice of bacon, chopped or 1 Tbsp. butter or olive oil
- Boiling water
Instructions
- Soak 2 cups of dried navy or white beans in water overnight.
- The next day, drain the beans, put them in a pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil, and simmer for 30 minutes (or until the skins break when you blow on them).
- Preheat oven to 300 F.
- Drain the beans and put them in a large ovenproof pot or bean crock. Bury peeled onion in the middle of the beans.
- Mix together and pour over the beans: brown sugar, molasses, salt, dry mustard and pepper. Dab with the butter or oil, or sprinkle bacon pieces, overtop.
- Pour over enough boiling water to just cover the beans.
- Cover the pot and cook for 4-6 hours, stirring occasionally and adding water if necessary so the beans do not dry out. Take the lid off for the last half hour of cooking.
Notes
Add half a peeled apple to the mixture along with the onion for an added layer of flavour.
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Sarah’s Oatmeal Brown Bread
A reader shared this recipe years ago and from time to time she’ll share a photo of a fresh batch cooling on her counter. This is a no-fail recipe that’s great for beginners.
Sloppy Joes with Turkey & Molasses
Black Bean Turkey Chili
30-Minute Lentil Soup
Apple Sage Baked Beans
A variation of our Molasses Baked Beans with Sass recipe if you’re craving a flavour twist.
Soaked Gingerbread Cake
A classic gingerbread poke cake soaked with a warm caramel sauce.
Debra Gray
i USE MOLISA WHEN i GLAZE A HAM in the crock pot I valso like making cookies using Molisa
BJ
I am going to make the Red Pepper Lentil Soup. It will be great on a cold day.
Sam Impastato
These look delicious.
Sarah M James
Love it for gingerbread , great on ribs too !
Barbara
took the gingerbread to work and everyone liked it will make again
Marilene Leblanc
I would like to do this in my slow cooker. Any advice pleas. TIA
Linda Nimigon
I’m going to make pumpernickel bread or Russian Rye next, I do believe they contain molasses.. have you ever made either of these before?
PS love your recipes!
Crosby Molasses
HI Linda! Unfortunately, we have never made these recipes before. Let us know how they turn out :) -Marie at Crosby’s Kitchen
Maggie
They look amazing!