1,746 traditional recipes

Traditional Slovak yeast doughnuts enriched with egg yolks, butter, and a hint of lemon rind. Light, pillowy fried dough rooted in Eastern European baking traditions. Makes 36.

Traditional Southern Maryland stuffed ham packed with seasoned kale, watercress, cabbage, and celery. A spectacular heritage recipe where greens are stuffed into slits throughout a whole country ham.

Traditional Irish oatcakes made with just oatmeal, flour, salt, and water. Griddle-cooked then oven-crisped, these sturdy flatbreads pair with butter, cheese, or smoked fish.

Lencseleves fogoyhussal, a traditional Hungarian lentil soup with partridge, smoked bacon, and a mustard cream finish. A hearty game-day soup rooted in Hungarian hunting tradition.

Greek macaronada with nutty browned butter and grated cheese coats every strand of tender elbow pasta. A six-ingredient traditional dish that proves simple Greek cooking delivers bold flavor.

Bløtkake, the Norwegian cream cake layered with whipped cream and crushed strawberries. The traditional Scandinavian birthday cake with a tender sponge base.

Greek semolina honey cookies (melomakarona): torpedo-shaped orange and cinnamon cookies soaked in a warm honey-cinnamon syrup and dusted with sesame or walnuts. Traditional Christmas tradition.

Old-fashioned blondie brownies with a deep brown sugar caramel base, chopped walnuts, and a single egg. No chocolate, no melted butter. Simple chewy bars made the traditional way.

Traditional British Shrewsbury lamb chops braised in a sweet-tangy sauce of red currant jelly, Worcestershire, lemon juice, and mushrooms. Old English casserole, hearty and warming.

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 mincemeat cookies are a Christmas tradition: spiced dried-fruit filling folded into a tender shortening dough, dropped by the spoonful and baked golden in about 12 minutes.

Traditional Southern cornbread dressing with crumbled cornbread, sage, chopped boiled eggs, and chicken broth. Includes a from-scratch buttermilk cornbread recipe. A Thanksgiving must-have.

Paskha, the traditional Russian Easter cheese dessert with cottage cheese, farmer's cheese, raspberry jam, candied orange peel, and almonds. Molded, drained, and served cold.

Ethiopian ambasha flatbread spiced with coriander, cardamom, and fenugreek, scored in a traditional spoke pattern and brushed with a warm cayenne-ginger topping.

Kimmel soup, a traditional Jewish caraway seed soup with egg dumplings and a paprika roux base. Simple, warming, and deeply aromatic from toasted caraway.

Traditional Pennsylvania Dutch buckwheat scrapple from hog's head, liver, heart, and sweetbreads, bound with cornmeal and buckwheat flour, seasoned with sage and mace.