Our staple baking recipes, these baking basics are the back-pocket recipes every home baker needs. Try your hand at pastry with homemade all butter pie crust or sweet shortcrust pastry. Boost your recipes with brown butter or lemon curd, or go all-out and make your own homemade mincemeat! As always, every recipe contains all the information even complete beginners will need to know, with step-by-step photos, notes, ingredient explanations, and more.