Recipes

Earning of pride-of-place on many a '40s and '50s shower table, the frosted sandwich loaf was a tower of cream-cheese ...
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This is one of those “low & slow” cooked dishes that’s perfect to start in the morning on a chilly ...
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In 1945, Ann Sather plunked down savings earned at a meat-packing plant to buy an already-existing Swedish diner. Although of ...
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This recipe story moves from Chicago to England to California and back again : ) It started back when I ...
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On blustery Midwestern days, my thoughts turn to the warm comforts of stews cooked with wine. More specifically? Beef Bourguignon ...
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Pull these soft little clouds of biscuit hot from the oven, slit them and fill them with salty country ham, ...
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I have a friend who calls beets "essence of dirt clod" : ) But I have always loved their earthy ...
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Despite the unfortunate Phaseolus vulgaris moniker—the American Common Bean category includes bunches of beloved, native-to-the-Americas beans: navy, red kidney, pinto, ...
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From Hollywood’s Brown Derby restaurant and named for its owner, Robert Howard Cobb, the Cobb Salad is the original chopped ...
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A bunch of Chicagoans wrote to tell us they missed this spicy-good signature shrimp appetizer from long closed Joe’s Be-Bop ...
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In a typical day, Shelby McCreedy might deal with, oh, money laundering, public indecency, intoxication, and some kind of theft ...
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From the time it opened in 1905, until it closed in 1962, Little Jack’s restaurant was a force in the ...
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Ask about the origins of this belly-filling, budget-stretching American favorite and you’ll get different answers. Some point to Cincinnati’s habit ...
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I get a lot of requests for old recipes from the Como Inn, a long-gone Chicago restaurant favorite which operated ...
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My lovely friend Kathleen S. grew up 15 miles from Silver Creek, NY, where they still host a Festival of ...
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In Southeastern Michigan, “Coney Island” refers to 24-hour diners, and, the specific kind of chili-topped, grilled hot-dogs those diners serve ...
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Here's a little-known fact: Early corn-dog purveyor Ed Waldmire, Jr., wanted to call his corn-dog stand “The Crusty Cur”….his wife ...
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Even though Georgia’s “official” state food is grits, there was a time when this simple tomato-and-pepper chicken curry was identified ...
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Alfredo Nogueira can't remember the first time he ate crawfish. "But I'm sure I was really little," says the chef, ...
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This beautiful cake is our family-birthday must. After I researched this story about it and developed the recipe, with input ...
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There are nearly as many recipes for gumbo as there are Cajuns. A lot of ‘em are made with okra, ...
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This recipe search started with a request from a reader looking for a meat filling that included raisins, spices and ...
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If you ever get to Benkelman, Nebraska, stop in at the Dundy County History Museum and tell them Lost Recipes ...
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It probably wasn’t an apple. Apricot, pear or pomegranate…maybe. But mythologists suggest that the eye-opening, original-sin-ushering fruit Eve plucked from ...
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There are a lot of vintage cheesecake recipes out there that ask you to “sieve” cottage cheese. Basically, that means ...
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I first launched Lost Recipes Found as a column in the Chicago Tribune, which has a lovely archive of vintage ...
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This goes back to when I first launched Lost Recipes Found for the Chicago Tribune, in answer to a reader ...
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When I grew up in 1970s Chicago, Sundays were family days. We’d drive to Grandma’s little brick bungalow on the ...
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Anchovies, chives, parsley, wine vinegar, sour cream…the original Green Goddess dressing was created by Chef Phillip Roemer of San Francisco’s ...
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There are lots of new takes on “newtons” out there. Our vintage version riffs on Ann Pillsbury’s classic ’50s recipe ...
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I first ran this recipe story four years ago, when the Chicago Tribune gave me permission to take the Lost ...
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Was Derby pie named for the hat or the horse race? The horse race. But a hat does figure in ...
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The story of Key lime pie is delightfully odd, including Cuban sponge "hookers", mystery aunts, canned milk and curing. The ...
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Before there was Michael Douglas (Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct and a zillion more movies,) there was Kirk Douglas, a 1940s ...
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Serendipity! Two or three people who don’t know each other, and live hundreds of miles apart in separate States, ask ...
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Baking recipes usually frown on softer apples, specifying instead that you use granny smith. That means you end up making ...
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Max Hess, Jr. was the P.T. Barnum of the department store world, a master at selling with flamboyance and showmanship ...
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When Liz Williams, director of New Orleans’ Southern Food & Beverage Museum was little, her mama couldn't stand okra. "So, ...
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My mom loved pimiento cheese. She had an old box grater and used to make me shred mounds of cheddar ...
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Preserving lemons in salt is an ancient practice with delicious results. I am crazed for these, eating them sliced and ...
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So a little history…Go to the website for British gourmet food retailer Fortnum & Mason and you’ll find the claim ...
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The berry world has its less-than-romantic nomenclature. I mean, “straw” or “rasp” don’t scream, “Eat me!” But those berries eclipsed ...
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Except for the no-sex and separation-from-the-world rules (pretty hard to overlook), I admire most everything I’ve read about Shakers. Progressive ...
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I once lived in a big, ugly green co-op house in South Evanston, where vegetarian was how you cooked, if ...
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There was a time when company coming meant mom whipped up the 2-cans-of-condensed-soup-ground-beef-bacon-&sour-cream stroganoff. Chef Rob Hurrie’s deeply-flavorful short-rib rendition ...
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Dreamy, chilled desserts full of cream, marshmallow, or mousse were very popular with housewives of the forties and fifties when ...
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I am a strawberry girl. I eat strawberries out of hand, make pies & jams with them, macerate them, even ...
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Still hot? Me too! How about this vintage soda fountain creation? Raspberry, orange and vanilla in frothy foam…with all those ...
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Earthy, sexy, silky, sunchokes beguile. To me, they’re like truffles in their scent and ability to make you crave just ...
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Really simple, really good, really pretty: just chilled red potatoes, beets, crisp lettuce and a creamy, sweet & tangy mustard ...
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The waitress at Ernie Risser’s family restaurant in Womelsdorf, PA, watches me looking dubiously at the gravy she just plunked ...
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Pennie F. wrote in search of an old recipe for “beanless” chili that was her family's Sunday staple 20 years ...
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The Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 was a chocolate-lovers dream: Boston-based chocolatier Walter M. Lowney brought the first American ...
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Since debuting in 1971 at Disney’s Polynesian Resort, Tonga Toast–a cinnamon-sugared chunk of deep-fried, banana-stuffed breakfast bliss–has always been a ...
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When Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov wasn’t busy commanding the Russian infantry in Napoleonic Wars, he feasted. Historians suggest that an ...
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Cheesecakes come in dozens of flavors and textures. Contrasting with the dense, baked cheesecakes many know, this vintage 1959 no-bake ...
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