Jane Melcher of East Greenville is looking for a recipe her mother called “Poor Boy Cake.” “She’d bake it in her round cake pan and first melt butter, and added brown sugar, left in clumps. My brother ...

From the very good new book “The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook,” by Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman, Maine-based organic gardeners, comes this very bright dish of asparagus sprinkled with ...