36 alice recipes

Creamy wild rice soup with mushrooms, chicken broth, and a splash of wine, finished in the oven and topped with slivered almonds and grated carrots.

Alice's white cake is a tender vanilla and almond-scented layer cake leavened with whipped egg whites for an airy, snowy crumb. The kind of from-scratch white cake that makes box mixes look amateur.

Classic Italian minestrone soup with white beans, salt pork, leeks, cabbage, turnip, zucchini, and elbow macaroni. Slow-simmered farmhouse soup finished with grated parmesan.

Alice's lemon pie is a heritage 9-ingredient meringue pie with a cornstarch-thickened lemon filling and powdered-sugar meringue topping. Light, tart, and finished in a deep dish pastry shell.

Buttermilk pie whisks tangy buttermilk with sugar, eggs, melted margarine, flour, and lemon extract into a sweet-tangy single-crust pie. Classic Southern five-minute pie filling.

Alice's chess pie blends butter, sugar, eggs, half-and-half, cornmeal, and a splash of vinegar into a glossy custard pie with a crackly sugar top. A Southern pantry classic baked in a single crust.

Chewy oatmeal raisin cookies with warm cinnamon and nutmeg spice. Classic rounds that require overnight chilling for the best texture and flavor development.

Beef chili simmers ground beef with kidney beans, crushed Italian and Mexican stewed tomatoes, vegetable juice, onions, and chili powder. Easy crowd-pleasing weeknight chili recipe.

Tandoori chicken marinates skin-off chicken legs and thighs in a yogurt, garlic and spice blend, then bakes hot and finishes under the broiler for that classic charred-edge tandoor look. Home oven version of the Indian classic.

Homemade pepper jelly with hot chili peppers, green bell peppers, vinegar, and Sure-Jell. Sweet, spicy, and spreadable, this classic Southern condiment pairs perfectly with cream cheese and crackers.

Crustless broccoli cheese pie, a light vegetarian custard of broccoli, onion, Swiss and Parmesan baked until just set, with a hint of nutmeg. No crust means it is naturally low-carb and gluten-free.

Mississippi mud cake baked low and slow in a tube pan with melted unsweetened chocolate, instant pudding and a generous pour of milk. Dark, dense and impossibly moist, dusted with confectioners' sugar.

Apple meringue pie with grated apples in a custardy cinnamon-nutmeg filling and a cloud of vanilla meringue on top. A two-stage bake that finishes lightly golden.

Alice's chocolate cake bakes a moist two-layer cocoa cake using boiling water for extra-deep chocolate flavor, then frosts with a from-scratch buttery cocoa-powdered sugar icing. The reliable birthday cake home bakers swear by.

Classic Italian anise biscotti with toasted almonds and anise seeds infused in Sambuca or Pernod. Twice-baked until crisp and dry, built for dunking into espresso or Vin Santo.

Sauteed calves liver with avocado slices in a brown butter, lemon, and white wine sauce with thyme and parsley. An elegant, retro main course ready in 30 minutes.