
’50s Frosted Sandwich Loaf
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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After-the-Party Veggie Soup
It happens after every dinner party. The guests head home. I clear away the wine bottles, and whatever fell behind ...
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Ancho-Braised Lamb Shanks
It's 12th night tonight! I'm not in baking mode--running about in the sunshine with my boys--so no kings cake, but ...
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Ann Sather’s Carrot Bread
In 1945, Ann Sather plunked down savings earned at a Chicago meat-packing plant to buy an already-existing Swedish diner. Although ...
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Apple Almond Cheese Tart
Whatever craziness is going on, in my head or otherwise, baking grounds me. Last night, for example, at like 4 ...
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Apple Cake (Gina’s Hubba Hubba Apple Cake)
Gina DePalma thinks her mom got the recipe for this gorgeous, not-too-sweet apple cake from a ’50s women’s magazine. When ...
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Ballymaloe House Lamb Stew
Cherished recipes are like ripples, each one an echo of the wave-maker that broke the surface. This Ballymaloe House lamb ...
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Banana Pudding with Homemade Vanilla Wafers
This is comfort, pure and simple. Smooth and creamy vanilla pudding, fresh sliced bananas, crisp little vanilla wafers, and a ...
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Banoffee (Banana Toffee Coffee) Tarts
This recipe story moves from Chicago to England to California and back again : ) It started back when I ...
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Beef Bourguignon
This is a pot of pure comfort. Beef Bourguignon. I have had many requests for this most-classic of beef-stew recipes, ...
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Beef Mushroom Barley Soup
Enhanced with curry, dried mushrooms and bacon, this beef-barley soup from long-gone Helen’s Olde Lantern in Blue Island, IL, was ...
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Best Chocolate Whipped Cream Birthday Cake
Perfectly moist, dark chocolate cake, with light-chocolate whipped cream, and a pint of fresh raspberries dotted over the top. That’s ...
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Biscuits with Country Ham
Pull these soft little clouds of biscuit hot from the oven, slit them and fill them with salty country ham, ...
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Borscht (Beet & Beef Soup)
I have a friend who calls beets "essence of dirt clod" : ) But I have always loved their earthy ...
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Boston Baked Beans & Brown Bread
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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Brooklyn Blackout Cake
From the time it opened in its first unit in 1898 until the last Ebinger's Bakery turned out its lights ...
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Brown Derby Cobb Salad
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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Brussels Sprouts (Petals with Bacon & Onion)
Today it was an impulse buy. But seeing those beautiful, almost prehistoric looking stalks of Brussels sprouts, I couldn't resist ...
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Buttermilk Fried Shrimp with Chipotle-Lime
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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Cajun Crawfish Boil
Mardi Gras parades for 2021 may have been canceled, but the feasting goes on. With crawfish season on, fill a ...
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Caramel Pecan Sticky Buns
In a typical day, Shelby McCreedy might deal with, oh, money laundering, public indecency, intoxication, and some kind of theft ...
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Cheddar Crackers
These nippy, buttery little crackers are soooooo easy to make! And they have a wonderful, crumbly texture. You can make ...
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Cheesecake Like Little Jack’s
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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Chicago Chili Mac
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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Chicken + Veggie Noodle Soup (Gluten Free)
With a pandemic raging, daily life has taken on some sudden changes. For my family, with an nonagenarian dad upstairs ...
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Chicken Consomme with Marrow Dumplings
While the chicken soup I grew up with was a hearty rustic version, friends of mine have sung the praises ...
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Chicken Liver & Bacon Pate
After my brother got mononucleosis as a kindergartner (how does that happen to a five-year-old?) Mom launched a relentless iron-rich ...
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Chicken Under Cover (Best Chicken Pie)
Homemade chicken soup may be a comfort for body and soul, but tuck that beautiful stock, chicken and vegetables under ...
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Chocolate French Silk Pie & Butterscotch Pecan Meringue Pie
Making pie crusts is such a soothing thing. A quieting, settling-in ritual that centers you in one place and time ...
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Chocolate-Covered Cherries
Chocolate and Valentine's Day are a forever pairing. For me, the choco-heart tradition is dipped in memories of my Aunt ...
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Christmas Pudding
Stir it up! That’s the chorus in Britain on Stir it Up Sunday, right before Advent. Churchgoers hear, “Stir up, ...
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Chunky Monkey Muffins (Banana Double-Chocolate Chunk)
I love bananas, their shape, color, scent & taste--and that they come wrapped in their own packaging, with a handle ...
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Classic Fresh Blueberry or Apricot Coffeecake Ring with Icing & Almonds on Top
Last time I chatted with longtime Minnesota State Fair “Supreme Ruler of the Kitchen,” Elaine Janas, the topic at hand ...
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Coffee & Molasses Dream Bars
Richly flavored with molasses, strong coffee and a generous portion of ground cloves, these bars are one of my favorite ...
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Como Inn Whitefish with Basil, Tomato & Oregano
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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Concord Grape Tart & Pie
My lovely friend Kathleen S. grew up 15 miles from Silver Creek, NY, where they still host a Festival of ...
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Coney Island Chili Dogs
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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Cornbread (Very Best! With Dried Sweet Corn)
I like a many-textured cornbread: crunchy on the outside, tender inside, with plenty of chewy corn niblets for added flavor ...
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Corned Beef Hash
What to do with the leftover corned beef? Make hash! It takes just three ingredients: corned beef, potatoes, and onions ...
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Country Captain
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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Crawfish Monica
Crawfish season is in full-swing, and there’s no better way to prepare those bright red “mudbugs” than in a hot ...
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Cream of Celery Soup
According to the Farmer’s Almanac, celery needs three things to thrive: a long growing season, mostly cool weather, and a ...
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Creamy Nectarine-y Cheesecake
Creamy cool and sunny as the summer nectarines it includes, this light, fruit-flecked cheesecake was requested by reader Marge. Marge ...
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Curried Lamb & Potato Pie
Sure, sugar pies are good, but a sturdy savory pie in midwinter is heaven. In response to a reader request, ...
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Deconstructed Pumpkin Pie (Pumpkin Mousse, Maple-Pecan Brittle + Sugared Pie Crust Twists)
There are people out there who don't like pumpkin pie. (Cue collective Midwestern gasp!) But there are other pumpkin possibilities ...
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Double Chocolate Bread Pudding & Barley Malt Caramel
Take bread pudding up a few notches! With chocolate stout giving the cocoa-bean chocolate an more-intensely dark backbone. And the ...
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Dreamsicle Birthday Cake
In the hazy realm of childhood memory live two related events: The first time I plopped a scoop of my ...
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Dressel’s Chocolate Fudge Whipped Cream Cake
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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Duck & Andouille Gumbo
There are nearly as many recipes for gumbo as there are Cajuns. A lot of ‘em are made with okra, ...
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Egg-Salad Sandwich (Perfection)
To me, the best egg salad is a refined egg salad. In the realm of protein-“salad” fillings, chunky is fine ...
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Empanadas Picadillo
This recipe search started with a request from a reader looking for a meat filling that included raisins, spices and ...
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Evan Moses’ 1940’s-Recipe Chocolate Malted “Frosty” Ice Cream
If you ever get to Benkelman, Nebraska, stop in at the Dundy County History Museum and tell them Lost Recipes ...
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Fig Cake made with Fresh Fig Preserves
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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Franklin Park BBQ Day Sloppy Joes
PTA School Barbecue Day has been a beloved tradition at Franklin Park, IL, District 84 schools since the 1950s. Featuring ...
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Fresh Cranberry Bars
From the Oleson-family-owned O&H Danish Bakery, just north of Chicago in Racine, WI, these bars are easy-good. Third-generation baker Eric ...
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Fresh Fig Layer Cake with Caramel Icing
My Mom grew up eating fresh figs from a large, spreading fig tree that grew by her house in Southern ...
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Fritzel’s Griddle Cakes with Cherry Berry Sauce
There are a lot of vintage cheesecake recipes out there that ask you to “sieve” cottage cheese. Basically, that means ...
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Fritzel’s Pepper Steak
I first launched Lost Recipes Found as a column in the Chicago Tribune, which has a lovely archive of vintage ...
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German Chocolate Cake (Marshall Field’s)
It’s tall. It’s magnificent. It’s the quintessential German Chocolate Cake: Four layers with classic coconut pecan filling. This cake’s tender ...
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Giant Cinnamon Rolls
This goes back to when I first launched Lost Recipes Found for the Chicago Tribune, in answer to a reader ...
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Gingerbread Cookies
My boys love gingerbread–the dark rich flavor of the cookie, and, the poses they can bend and flex the classic-cookie-guys ...
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Gluten-Free Cinnamon Rolls
America's love affair with cinnamon rolls is alive and well. Cinnamon rolls, sticky buns, coffee cakes...I've featured recipes for all ...
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Gooseberry Tart
Wow, the things you learn when digging into etymology! Word geeks tell us that the “goose” in “gooseberry”, for example, ...
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Grandma Bertha’s Apricot Delights
Although there’s not much razzle dazzle on the outside, beauty–delicate, buttery, apricot-tender, cinnamon-sugared perfection–lies within. Susan Levin of Long Grove, ...
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Grandma’s Sunday Supper (Chicken Fricassee with Vegetables & Light Slaw)
When I grew up in nineteen-seventies Chicago, Sundays were family days. We’d drive to Grandma’s little brick bungalow on the ...
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Green Goddess Dip
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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Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup Brownies with Chocolate Frosting
Nevadan Elizabeth Castle says she got this recipe from her 93-year-old aunt, Myrnie Dawson, of Princeton, IL. Elizabeth got so ...
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Holidaze! Sweets & Treats
The sun is shining in through the windows, lighting up the mixing bowls and rolling pins, cookie cutters and pudding ...
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Homemade Fig Bars
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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Honey Cinnamon Graham Crackers
For all of you firepit fans and s'mores lovers out there, here's my absolute favorite homemade graham cracker recipe. It ...
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Hoosier Mama’s Frito-Chili Pie
Born and schooled in Texas, I ate traditional Frito-Chili Pie with the best of them (aka bag-o-corn-chips with chili ladled ...
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Hoppin’ John (Black-eyed Peas with Rice, Greens & Cornbread)
We could all use a little good luck to kick off the new year--platefuls of it, in fact. Good thing ...
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Jalapeno Creamed Spinach
Creamed spinach–Texas style! Sans canned-creamed-soup and minus the processed cheese, this is a gourmet side dish worthy of birthday dinners ...
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Jam Tart (or, Best Basic Bar Cookies)
The bar cookie brings with it the promise of plenty, the memory of family gatherings where people talked long and ...
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Johnny Marzetti Casserole
Johnny Marzetti could very well be America's best loved and longest standing comfort casserole. A mix of ground meat, tomato ...
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Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins
I first ran this recipe story four years ago, when the Chicago Tribune gave me permission to take the Lost ...
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Kentucky Derby Chocolate Pecan Pie
Was Derby pie named for the hat or the horse race? The horse race. But a hat does figure in ...
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Key Lime Pie
The story of Key lime pie is delightfully odd, including Cuban sponge "hookers", mystery aunts, canned milk and curing. The ...
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Kirk Douglas’ Favorite Meatloaf
Before there was Michael Douglas, there was Kirk Douglas, Michael's 1940s matinee-idol father. If it weren’t for Ant Man, in ...
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Leek & Potato Soup
There is a delicious vegetable soup in this post. But first? Some stories. I don’t know why but I awoke ...
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Lime-Chocolate Ice Cream Pie
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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Lutz’s Raspberry Nut Bars
One of Chicago’s most famous pastry chefs until his death in 2011, Lutz Olkiewicz was sweets master at the Drake ...
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Madison Guerrilla Cookie (….or comes close!)
I first posted this story exactly three years ago. In the interim? I've had another dozen letters from Madison Guerrilla ...
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Mango Sorbet with Fresh Lime Juice
When the boys came home with a box of very ripe mangoes, they had to become sorbet! This juicy version ...
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Marshall Field’s Chinese Chews
I would never have thought to put dates with chocolate. But wow! So good! The result, as exemplified in this ...
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Marvelous Mashed Potatoes
Chicago chef Mike Sheerin has been making the mashed potatoes at family gatherings since he was six years old. On ...
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Melting Apple Cake
Baking recipes usually frown on softer apples, specifying instead that you use granny smith. That means you end up making ...
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Meta’s Buttery Buttermilk Biscuits
I woke up this morning remembering a whimsical fact: When my youngest child was a very small grasshopper, he nicknamed ...
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Mexican Holiday Punch (Ponche Navideño)
The tiny little tejocotes were so cute, I bought a handful just to look at them! When the guy at ...
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Mile-High Country Cornbread
Just had the pleasure of writing about Chicago chef's favorite food memories, represented in this photo of a golden hour ...
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Mile-High Strawberry Pie
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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Mincemeat Tarts
Among traditional Holiday foods, mincemeat goes waaaaaaay back. Dating from the 11th century, mincemeat pie originally packed (along with the ...
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Mister MacTavish Rarebit Burger
Once-upon-a-time, I left a job as an editor for a national food magazine, to do marketing for Chicago’s beefy Lawry’s ...
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Naturally-Dyed Eggs
Well, here’s a Jacob Grimm you may not have heard : ) As a philologist studying Germanic folk customs, Grimm ...
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New England Clam Chowder (James Cagney’s)
As long as there have been celebrities, there have been fans obsessed with them. The minutiae of their lives...where they ...
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New Orleans Okra Giardiniera
When Liz Williams, director of New Orleans’ Southern Food & Beverage Museum was little, her mama couldn't stand okra. "So, ...
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New York “Dry” Crustless Cheesecake
The checkout lady at the grocery store thought I was on a real fat bender. “What are you going to ...
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North Carolina Cassoulet (Navy Beans & Meats in Ham Hock Stock)
This satisfying Southern dish full of richly flavored stock, smoky pork, vegetables, and creamy white navy beans, came to me ...
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Not A White Russian
White Russians. Remember those? They were silky as the synthetic dresses my girls-college friends and I used to slip into ...
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Old-fashioned Butter Cookies
When I was growing up, our sometime babysitter Shirley loved baking. I can still see her, arms crossed behind her ...
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Orange Dips
In 1961, these light, fresh-orange-and-sugar-glazed, tea cookies won Jo Ryman Scott the first-ever bake-off at Fairbanks, Alaska’s Tanana Valley State ...
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Pasta Shells with Roasted Vegetables (Maggiano’s Original Recipe)
It's a thing: Thriving restaurant concepts refresh and update menus often, sometimes eliminating dishes from menus that might have been ...
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PBJ Bars (Fresh Concord Grape with Peanutty Crust)
The grape harvest had happened, truckloads of deeply fragrant Concord grapes already on their way to become juice and jam ...
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Persian Quail with Pomegranate Walnut Sauce (Fesenjan)
Sweet, tart, earthy and rich, this beautiful celebratory Persian dish originated thousands of years ago in the Iranian province of ...
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Persimmon Spice Cake with Caramel Frosting
For anybody unfamiliar, persimmons are native to America, highly-nutritious and once prized by American Indians and early settlers. They also ...
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Pimiento Cheese Cherry Bombs
My mom loved pimiento cheese. She had an old box grater and used to make me shred mounds of cheddar ...
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Pork Chops with Sauerkraut +Apple Stuffing
With three boys, a daughter, and son-in-law coming home for the Holidays, hearty, comforting dishes are in order for those ...
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Portuguese Egg Bread
Perfect for your Easter morning! Suzana B. wrote in search of this Portuguese Sweet Egg-Bread recipe her husband fondly remembered ...
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Potato Turbate
Since I ran the recipe for this Pinellas County, FL school cafeteria lunchroom favorite, I've heard from more than a ...
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Preserved Meyer Lemons
Preserving lemons in salt is an ancient practice with delicious results. I am crazed for these, eating them sliced and ...
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Pub Cheese
You could buy pub cheese from the refrigerated section near the deli, or you could make this creamy, smoky, beer-and-bourbon-spiked ...
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Quinoa Roast Potato & Caramelized Onion Bowl with Arugula & Tahini Lemon Dressing
January being a time of new beginnings, it’s not surprising I’ve heard from readers and friends searching for the healthy ...
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Raisin Date Nut Bread Baked in a Can
Because the result is so moist, baking and/or steaming bread in cans is an old-fashioned tradition people still ask about ...
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Raspberry Fool (Raspberries + Cream)
Berries and cream have been a thing as long cows and brambley hedges have roamed and rambled across the British ...
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Red Velvet Cake (Monica’s All-Natural)
It’s been a while since I’ve been to Beeville, TX. Not far from Normanna, Orangedale and Skidmore, it’s the Bee ...
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Red+White+Blue Berry Trifle
Fresh picked and washed under the cold-water spigot at edge of the orchard is undeniably the best way to enjoy ...
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Rhubarb Rosette Upside-Down Cake
Gorgeously colored from ruby to pinky-red with blushes of celery green that take on a satiny-sheen in the light, rhubarb ...
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Roasted-bone Poultry Gravy
If you can, roast a small turkey the day before you do the big Thanksgiving bird, just to make the ...
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Sauerkraut Soup
We've had requesters looking for what to do with the leftover sauerkraut, so this one's for you! Rich with butter, ...
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Sausage & Sage Stuffing
The scent of toasting bread cubes, sausage in the skillet and fresh snipped sage just make Thanksgiving morning what it ...
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Scotch Eggs
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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Serviceberry Pie (Yes, you can eat them!)
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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Seven-Layer Salad (A Classic Updated)
A thing is the sum of its parts. If the parts are crap…well then. But if the parts are stellar ...
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Shaker Lemon Pie
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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Sherried Mushroom & Walnut Loaf
I once lived in a big, pale-green commune of sorts, where vegetarian was how you cooked, if you cooked at ...
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Shortrib Stroganoff
For many during childhood, “company coming” unexpectedly meant mom whipping up the 2-cans-of-condensed-soup-ground-beef-bacon-&-sour-cream stroganoff. Although that was a comfort classic ...
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Sizzling Salmon with Lemongrass & Tamarind
Pan-steaming fish over aromatics and then sizzling it with hot garlic oil is an old Cantonese cooking method…..the tamarind, ginger, ...
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Skillet Cornbread with Molasses & Honey
Hailing from Texas, my Mom made a lot of cornbread: Corn dodgers, corn cake, cornbread…we ate it with butter and ...
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Spiced Butternut Squash Pie & Southern Sweet Potato Pie
Ever since a food blogger published an article early this fall talking about her shock and horror at discovering that ...
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Spiced Shepherd’s Pie
One of my boys loves lamb, and this one-dish classic casserole, layering sautéed garden vegetables and gratineed whipped potatoes over ...
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Sticky Maple Pudding-Cake
Rich, sticky, sweet and gooey, it’s really like an upside-down cake, minus the fruit. Simple vanilla cake batter baked in ...
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Strawberries & Cream Fridge Cake
Dreamy, chilled desserts full of cream, marshmallow, or mousse were very popular with housewives of the forties and fifties when ...
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Strawberries in a Cloud (Blitz Torte)
I am a strawberry girl. I eat strawberries out of hand, make pies & jams with them, macerate them, even ...
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Strawberry Shortcakes with Sugared Cream Biscuits, Strawberries & Cream
Dough made with a high fat-to-flour ratio is called “short” and bakes up into the tender crumbly biscuits we call ...
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Summer Girl Soda
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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Summer! Sister Mary’s Corn Relish
This is the corn relish recipe that has won self-professed “ribbon slut” Barb Schaller eight blue ribbons at the Minnesota ...
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Summery French Lentil Salad
Greens are great, but for savory satisfaction in a summer salad, I love this cool and crunchy lentil and veggie ...
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Sunchokes Two Ways: Soup & Smashed Potato
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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Swedish Beet, Potato & Lettuce Salad with Mustard Cream
Really simple, really good, really pretty: just chilled red potatoes, beets, crisp lettuce and a creamy, sweet & tangy mustard ...
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Sweet Potato Peanut Soup
We tried a gardening experiment last summer, growing as many varieties of peppers as we could, enjoying their bright freshness ...
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Sweet Rice-Flour Pancakes (Crespelle)
I didn’t have the chance to visit 4000-year-old Otzi The Iceman, oldest mummy in Europe, at the South Tyrol Museum ...
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Sweetcorn & Bacon Pie
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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Texas Chili Con Carne
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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Texas-style Chili Mac
The first time my parents drove to the tiny Texas town where I would spend my early childhood, Dad got ...
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Thanksgiving!
They come from far and near, to gather together. Family, friends--and for those who lack either: the community of those ...
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The Original Chocolate Fudge Brownie (Palmer House)
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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Tonga Toast (Banana-Stuffed French Toast with Strawberries)
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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Tortilla Crunch Stack
This crispy crunchy stack of fresh-fried tortillas layered with a tomatilla- poblano meat sauce, and Chihuahua cheese is a surprisingly ...
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Tropical Fruit Tapioca Gelee Dessert
You know those recipes your mom used to make from what she pulled last-minute from the pantry? Nothing gourmet about ...
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Vanilla Chia Pudding
I'm so late to the charms of chia! And not for lack of my daughter Em's trying--she's been raving about ...
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Veal Stroganoff
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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Very Airy No-Bake Cheesecake
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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Very Nutty Peanut Butter Granola
Was a time when "granola" wasn't just used as the noun for the crunchy, nutty, dried fruit cereal, but for ...
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Viet Cajun Shrimp and Sausage Boil
When my mom grew up in Houston, Texas, excursions to Galveston, where my grandfather owned land, were a beach-filled regularity ...
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Vintage No-Bake Icebox Cakes: Berries & Cream and Chocolate Mousse
Chilled desserts full of cream, marshmallow, or mousse were very popular with housewives of the forties and fifties when the ...
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Vintage Tea Sandwiches
One of the more entertaining things about recipe books from the ‘30s and ‘40s, is what they reveal about changing ...
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Waldorf Salad
Recipe provenance is a wily thing. Who combined (insert your list) ingredients to make (insert your dish) first? Definitive answers ...
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Whitehall Club Creamed Spinach
Established as a private-dining club in Chicago’s boutique Whitehall Hotel in 1956, The Whitehall Club was a fine-dining fixture for ...
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Whitehall Club Creamed Spinach
Established as a private-dining club in Chicago’s boutique Whitehall Hotel in 1956, The Whitehall Club was a fine-dining fixture for ...
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Wine-Poached Pear & Rosemary Tart
I so love the flavor of our wine-poached pears with a little cheese, it made me imagine them in this ...
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Wine-Poached Pears
As far back as the 15th century, English cooks discovered that wine-poaching hard pears made them both tender and palatable ...
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Zucchini Relish
Like bread & butter pickles? Then you’ll like the taste of this relish. I’ve received requests for what to do ...
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Zwiebelfleisch (Red Star Inn)
The road to recreating lost recipes can be winding–not always leading where you expected it to go. The search for ...
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