Newfoundland Recipes

Coconut Orange Tea Buns with Honey Butter. A delicious combination of two favourite tea bun recipes that my mother always made in her Newfoundland kitchen.

Blueberry Turnovers. A pre-cooked blueberry pie filling and a forgiving sweet butter pastry recipe make these turnovers practically foolproof.

Best Easter Recipes. Celebrate with these springtime recipes, from traditional favourites to baked ham dinners and luscious lemon desserts. 

Blueberry duff. A steamed pudding here in Newfoundland, sometimes served with dinner, sometimes as a dessert with blueberry or rum sauce.

Coconut Tea Buns. A Newfoundland favourite tea time snack for decades. This is how we’ve made them for many years in our family. Number one son has been asking me to make these coconut tea buns for a couple of weeks now. He loves anything coconut. He thinks I should try this recipe with raspberries …

Jam tarts. A real local Newfoundland favourite, especially using local berry jams. You can use any jam you like in these gorgeous little mini tarts.

Ragged Rock Rum Truffle Cake. A light sponge cake soaked in rum and then frosted with a an easy rum truffle frosting.

Cod Puttanesca. Pan fried pieces of cod get served on a bed of fettuccine with a quick cooked garlic and tomato sauce. A delicious weekday meal in about 30 minutes.

Traditional Newfoundland Pea Soup and Dough Boys. Made with leftover ham or salt beef, it’s a hearty local favourite that has warmed many a belly over the decades.

Newfoundland Date Crumbles (or Date Squares) is a recipe every local family knows and loves. The secret is having the right proportion of butter in the crumble and this recipe gets it just right.