The Warm Kitchen — Fall Baking

There's a season when the oven becomes the center of the house again, and it runs on five jars. Cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice, clove: the warm quintet behind pumpkin bread, spice cake, snickerdoodles, mulled cider, and most of what makes a kitchen smell like October. This series is about those bakes, one at a time, with the technique that makes them work and the honest truth about where the flavor comes from. (It's usually the spice.)

First bake below. Apple crisp, banana bread, and the rest of the fall table are on the way.