Edited version of a story first published Dec. 15, 2009: This old-fashioned charmer is from Heirloom Cooking with the Brass Sisters by Marilynn Brass & Sheila Brass (Black Dog & Leventhal, $29.95).

This cake from chef-owner Kathy Fang of Fang, a modern Chinese restaurant in San Francisco’s SoMa district, is one of her family’s favorite desserts during Lunar New Year celebrations, which fall on ...

This daikon cake is traditionally referred to as a turnip cake in Chinese and Taiwanese homes, on restaurant menus and in cookbooks. It is eaten during the new year because the Taiwanese word for ...