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Old-fashioned Amish pie with a molasses filling topped with crumb topping. Simple, sweet, and reminiscent of shoofly pie without the gooey bottom layer.

Spiced fig drop cookies with stewed figs, raisins, walnuts, allspice, and cinnamon. An old-fashioned fruit-filled cookie that stores beautifully in a tin for weeks.

Introduce your fish to beer with this scrumptious recipe that also uses cornmeal.

Pickled or corned beef (or venison): a traditional barrel-cure brine for beef or wild game using salt, saltpeter, and molasses. Old-fashioned homesteader method for preserving large cuts.

Maple pecan scones cut cold butter into a flour-pecan dough, then bind with maple syrup and heavy cream for a tender, sweet biscuit. Brushed with extra maple before baking.

Christmas cookie slices are old-fashioned icebox cookies: vanilla shortbread dough rolled into logs, chilled, sliced thin, and baked into crisp golden rounds. Make ahead and ready to slice for holiday baking.

Halloween black cat cookies turn rich chocolate cookie dough into spooky-cute pops, with pinched ears, fork-pressed whiskers, candy corn eyes, and red-hot noses. A fun bake the kids can help shape.

Do It Yourself Devil’S Food Cake Mix recipe

German cottage cheese and oil pastry dough (Quark-Öl-Teig): a tender, no-butter base for fruit tarts, sweet rolls, and stollen made without yeast. Quick to mix and ready to roll in 20 minutes.

Four-ingredient maple syrup souffle made with beaten egg whites, powdered sugar, and baking powder. Light as air with pure maple flavor in every spoonful.

Old-fashioned quick graham bread, a no-knead pioneer-style whole grain loaf with brown sugar, graham flour, and milk. Bakes up in an hour with no yeast or rising time required.

White Lily pound cake bakes a classic Southern butter-and-shortening pound cake with vanilla and almond extracts in soft White Lily flour. A Southern grandmother's pound cake recipe.

No-yeast brown seed bread with whole wheat flour, bran, oats, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, honey, and yogurt. A dense, nutty quick bread loaded with seeds and grains that bakes in under an hour.

Peanut butter chocolate chip mini loaves made with chunky peanut butter, buttermilk, and brown sugar. Bakes into 5 small gift-ready loaves that freeze beautifully for up to a month.

Spiced cocoa doughnuts deep-fried into cake-style rings, scented with cinnamon and mace, dusted in cinnamon-powdered sugar. Old-school bakery-counter chocolate doughnut.

Sauerkraut apple cake with walnuts, cinnamon, and nutmeg topped with orange-cinnamon cream cheese frosting. A secret ingredient cake nobody can guess.