2,027 shortening recipes

Eggless roll-out cookies with just sugar, shortening, sour milk, baking soda, and flour. A simple, old-fashioned recipe for egg-free baking. Cut into any shape you like.

This scrumptious bread can be filled with fruit, meat or even cheese! The variety makes it a perfect dinner for a large family.

Cow pies are no-bake chocolate candy drops made with melted milk chocolate chips, slivered almonds, and raisins. A fun, kid-friendly treat ready in 20 minutes.

Beaten biscuits, a historic Southern recipe made by beating dough with a rolling pin until it snaps. Crisp, tender, and shelf-stable for weeks. Makes about 100 small biscuits.

Cape Cod cranberry pie with a self-forming buttery crust that bakes right over tart cranberries and chopped nuts. No pie crust rolling needed. Just mix, pour, and bake.

While watching the first snowfall, try these scrumptious cookies that contain a hint of cinnamon and nutmeg.

Ginger icebox cookies with molasses, three teaspoons of ground ginger, and a slice-and-bake method. Make the dough ahead, chill, and bake crisp rounds whenever you want fresh cookies.

Filled cookies sandwich a sweet raisin filling between two rounds of tender vanilla shortbread, sealed with fork tines and baked golden. Old-fashioned American lunchbox classic, like a homemade fig newton.

No-bake peanut butter cracker sandwiches dipped in melted white chocolate. A four-ingredient sweet-and-salty treat that takes 20 minutes and tastes like a homemade candy bar.

Shamrock cookies for St. Patrick's Day, a tender mint-scented shortbread tinted green, shaped from three little dough balls plus a stem and dusted with green sugar. A fun holiday baking project.

El Charro Frijoles Refritos (Refried Beans) recipe

Soft homemade dinner rolls: pillowy yeast rolls made the old-fashioned way with milk, water, and active dry yeast. Pull-apart soft, golden-topped, and worth every minute of the rise.

Classic white cake with buttermilk and egg whites for a pure white, tender crumb. Easy two-layer recipe with a marble cake variation built in.

Kraut burgers, also called bierocks or runzas, tuck a savory ground beef, cabbage, and onion filling inside soft baked bread dough. A hearty Great Plains hand pie, brushed with butter and great for packing in lunches.

Mincemeat bars with a chewy oat-molasses crust and condensed mincemeat filling. Old-fashioned holiday baking with a crumble topping, dusted with powdered sugar.

Applesauce Walnut Cake with Butter Frosting recipe