123 grandpa recipes

Make-ahead mashed potato casserole with cream cheese, sour cream, butter, and paprika. Baked until golden on top with a creamy, fluffy center.

My grandfather's whole wheat bread with oatmeal and cracked wheat for a bit more wholesome texture.

Grandpa's caribou sausage blends lean wild game with ground bacon for richness, then seasons it with garlic, allspice, coriander, and mustard seed before stuffing into casings. A hunter's homemade sausage that works for any lean game.

Grandpa's venison stew with cubed deer meat, potatoes, carrots, corn, peas, and green beans in a cornstarch-thickened broth. Hunter's-table classic from a one-pot tradition.

The sauce was too much like spagetti sauce. I cooked the pork chops in the sauce for hours and it was tender, but the pork flavor was diminished; I would prefer to taste the pork more.

Pork shoulder chili with pinto beans, green olives, and olive juice for a briny twist. Slow-simmered with chili powder, paprika, celery seed, and Tabasco.

Homemade vegetable stock simmers cold-water vegetables with up to six herbs for 30 to 45 minutes. The flexible base recipe for soups, risottos, and braises.

This old-fashioned cookie from Gretchen D'Antico of Merton has a nice flavor and is even better dipped in white chocolate.

Homemade venison sausage with a 50/50 venison-pork blend, garlic, salt, and black pepper. A simple family recipe for making bulk sausage from ground deer meat.

Loaded oatmeal cookies with whole wheat flour, coconut, pecans, chocolate chips, and butterscotch chips. Vanilla pudding mix is the secret to extra-soft cookies.

Classic buttermilk cake donuts with a vanilla-scented dough fried golden and rolled in powdered sugar. An old-fashioned grandma's recipe with tender, cakey crumb and no yeast required.

Grandma's cranberry scones studded with tart fresh cranberries, currants, and bright orange zest, made tender with buttermilk. Buttery wedge scones for breakfast or an afternoon tea treat.

Grandma Rosenbrook's old-fashioned gingersnaps with molasses, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger, rolled in sugar before baking. A crispy-edged, chewy-centered heirloom cookie recipe.

Grandma's strawberry freezer jam with mashed berries, sugar, and pectin. A no-cook style jam with bright fresh-fruit flavor that traditional cooked jams can't match.

Grandma Woodall's old-fashioned chocolate brownies made with melted unsweetened chocolate, canola oil, and a simple mixing method. Cake-like, family-recipe brownies in a 9x13 pan.

Grandma's broccoli soup: a simple, silky pureed broccoli soup with sauteed onion and vegetable stock, lightened with a splash of warm milk instead of heavy cream. Six ingredients, ready in about half an hour.