1,746 traditional recipes

Creamy pumpkin pecan pie with toasted pecans pureed into the filling itself, plus heavy cream, dark rum, and warm spices. A decadent twist on traditional pumpkin pie.

Italian pizzelles with butter, sugar, eggs, and a hint of anise pressed in a hot pizzelle iron into delicate snowflake-patterned wafer cookies. Traditional Italian holiday cookie.

Friendship-starter prune cake spiced with cinnamon and studded with chopped walnuts and stewed prunes. A moist, sourdough-tinged sheet cake from the Amish friendship-bread tradition.

Homemade monastery-style herbal sausage with pork, beef, thyme, marjoram, pimento, and ground cinnamon stick. Hand-ground and stuffed into pork casings for traditional European sausage making.

Bisochos (also known as Ka'ak or Crozettes), traditional Sephardic sesame-coated bread rings with anise, fennel, or coriander seed. Crisp, nutty, and dipped in egg before sesame.

Christopsomo: a traditional Greek Christmas bread with semolina, citrus zest from oranges and tangerines, currants, golden raisins, and a warming blend of cinnamon, anise, coriander, and cloves.

Knäckebröd, the traditional Swedish rye crispbread baked thin and crackling. Just six pantry staples turn into snappy crackers, perfect with butter, cheese, smoked salmon, or pickled herring.

Lomi lomi salmon: a traditional Hawaiian luau side of diced salt-cured salmon, ripe tomatoes, sweet onion, and green onion, served ice cold in hollowed tomato shells.

New England clam chowder with bacon steams fresh littlenecks, then builds a creamy chowder with smoky bacon, onion, diced potatoes, and milk. Traditional white chowder, no shortcuts.

Krumkaker are Norwegian curled cookies pressed thin in a special iron, then rolled into cones around a wooden spoon handle while still hot. Traditional Scandinavian holiday treat.

Mud-baked fish encases a fresh-caught whole fish in river clay and cooks it directly on hot coals for three hours. Traditional Australian bushcraft cooking method.

Lebkuchen German Christmas cookies blend honey, molasses, cardamom, and clove into a dense spiced dough rolled and cut into shapes. Family tradition, ages and keeps for months.

Berlinerkranzer are buttery Norwegian Christmas wreath cookies scented with orange, brushed with sugared egg white and trimmed with candied cherry holly berries. A delicate Scandinavian holiday tradition.

Italian-style braised calf's feet in red wine and tomato with caraway, lemon peel, and gremolata finish. A rustic osso buco-cousin traditionally served over saffron risotto.

Gugelhupf is an Austrian yeasted bundt cake rich with butter, eggs, raisins, ground almonds, and lemon zest. Traditional Habsburg breakfast bread served warm with butter or coffee.

Austrian scheiterhaufen bread pudding of cinnamon custard-soaked roll slices layered with raisins and sultanas. A traditional German-Austrian dessert with grandmother's kitchen written all over it.