51 grandpa recipes

Old-fashioned prune soup thickened with sour cream and flour for a creamy, sweet-tart base. A traditional Eastern European fruit soup served warm with just five simple ingredients.

Grandma's sweet pickled beets made with canned whole beets in a vinegar-sugar brine. Only 5 ingredients, ready to jar in 20 minutes. Let them sit a few days and serve cold.

Grandma's chicken noodle soup with bone-in thighs, turnips, carrots, celery, and egg noodles. Simmered from scratch in water with thyme and poultry seasoning. Honest, old-fashioned comfort.

No-bake grandma cookies with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, peanut butter, and crisp rice cereal. Four ingredients, no oven needed. Crunchy, sweet, and ready after a quick chill.

Homemade chicken pot pie with cooked chicken and your pick of vegetables bound in a creamy poultry-seasoned gravy. Top it your way: buttery Parmesan croutons, fresh biscuits, or a classic pie crust baked until golden and bubbling.

Bread machine sticky rolls with cardamom and buttermilk. Shaped as knots or cloverleaf, brushed with butter-sugar glaze. Includes brown-and-serve and cinnamon roll options.

Crispy unsweetened oat cookies sandwiched with a sweet date filling. A Canadian grandma recipe with an icebox dough sliced paper-thin and baked into delicate wafers.

Greek garbanzo bean soup with kidney beans, tomato sauce, and vegetables sauteed in broth instead of oil. Half-pureed for a thick, hearty texture that's naturally low in fat.

Classic no-bake peanut butter chocolate cookies with oats, cocoa, sugar, and milk. Boil the base, stir in the oats and peanut butter, drop, and done.

A small batch, simple homemade hot Italian sausage from my Italian Grandmother. Perfect for whipping up a small batch of bulk sausage for use in other recipes.

This unusual side dish is tangy and full of beans! Perfect with hamburgers or barbecue.

Old-fashioned Southern chicken and dumplings with rolled flat dumplings (not drop biscuits). Whole simmered chicken, onion broth, and a splash of milk for silky pot pie texture.

An old family recipe, from Josephine Bowles Shepard, 1894-1966.

Grandma's New England pickles: whole cucumbers pickled in a vinegar, salt, sugar, and dry mustard brine for 30 days. Tangy, addictive, old-school homemade pickles with a bite.

Grandma's picnic chocolate cake baked in one 8x8 pan with buttermilk, cocoa powder, and cake flour. An old-fashioned single-layer snacking cake that travels well and stays moist for days.

Grandma Thorpe's currant pancakes are griddled rolled biscuit-style pancakes studded with dried currants, buttered hot, and dusted with sugar. A British-Welsh heritage breakfast or tea-time treat.