72 land recipes

Authentic frijoles refritos made with cooked beans mashed in lard or bacon drippings and topped with melted longhorn cheese. Three ingredients, 15 minutes, real Mexican flavor.

Potato omelette with sliced boiled potatoes, sauteed onions, and beaten eggs cooked together in a skillet until firm. A hearty, old-school breakfast with just five simple ingredients.

Haebernes Mus, a rustic German oatmeal mush pan-fried in lard until crispy. Just 4 ingredients for a hearty, old-world peasant dish with golden, crunchy edges.

Old-fashioned stovetop apple dessert with layers of pastry squares and spiced apples cooked in a kettle. This vintage pot pie simmers until tender, then gets served with cream.

Three-layer shepherd's pie with browned ground beef, creamed corn, and a buttery mashed potato crown. A no-fuss weeknight casserole built from seven pantry ingredients and one baking dish.

Old-fashioned yeast coffee cake enriched with scalded milk and lard, topped with cinnamon sugar. A tender, bread-like breakfast cake from the yeasted coffee cake tradition.

Sopaipillas are puffy, pillow-like Southwestern fried bread drizzled with honey or dusted with cinnamon sugar. A New Mexican classic made with yeast dough and a whole-wheat twist.

A soft, dark Swedish yeast bread sweetened with molasses and sugar, baked into 4 full loaves. Rich, slightly sweet crumb with a glossy butter-brushed top. A Scandinavian staple for sandwiches or slathered with butter.

Old-fashioned oatmeal icebox cookies made with brown sugar, lard, butter, and buttermilk. Slice-and-bake dough that chills overnight for thin, crispy oat cookies.

Lentejas en adobo is a rustic Mexican lentil and pork stew simmered in a smoky ancho-chili adobo with plantain, pineapple, and warm spices. Thick, savory, and deeply layered.

Old-fashioned fruit cookies with brown sugar, raisins, nuts, cinnamon, and sour milk. Kneaded like bread and rolled thin for crisp, spiced cookies. A heritage recipe worth reviving.

Thin, crispy oatmeal lace cookies with orange zest and shredded coconut. Made with lard for extra-crisp edges that spread paper-thin during baking.

Authentic Upper Michigan pasties filled with ground beef, potatoes, rutabaga, onion, and carrot in a tender, chewy suet crust. Cornish-style meat pies from the UP, just like the miners made.

Wild duck or goose browned in a skillet, stuffed with apple and onion, then braised in homemade gravy until the meat falls right off the bone. Honest, hearty hunter's fare.

Old-fashioned Canadian jam jam cookies: oatmeal and brown sugar rounds sandwiched around a homemade date filling. A prairie-farmhouse classic with a soft, chewy bite.

Rabbit hoggan, a traditional Cornish lard-pastry parcel stuffed with rabbit, potato, turnip, and carrot. Tin miner's lunch from the West Country, baked free-form.