Fruit ‘N Filbert Pork Chops is easily my favorite recipe from A Treasury of Prize Winning Filbert Recipes, transforming a usually bland and dry pork loin into a delicious weeknight meal. The fruit is arguably central to the flavor profile, but the recipe still showcases the toasty bitterness of roasted hazelnuts. It’s also deliciously old……
Ingredient: ground cinnamon
Pumpkin Crumble Cake (Oregon, 2006, adapted)
For a home cook I feel like I know my way around a kitchen. But everyone’s got their blind spots, and mine is baking. I don’t enjoy it and I’m not good at it, and despite a background in chemistry I’m especially bad at yeast breads. I can’t even make a decent pizza crust (although……
Lamb Shank Vindaloo (inspired by Hotpoint Storybook Kitchen Cookbook, 1964)
Vindaloo is one of my favorite Indian dishes, in part because it’s one of the heartier dishes served at Indian restaurants but mostly because the sour and spicy sauce is addictive and delicious. It’s now an Indian restaurant staple, but has its origins in a vinegary Portuguese stew. As such you’ll often find it prepared……
Apple Pudding Bread (Wisconsin, 1989, adapted)
Apple Pudding Bread is a spiced dessert bread recipe from Ascension Lutheran’s 1989 community cookbook. The recipe’s author was a longtime member and mother of three. She was an avid bridge player and teacher and her husband served in various lay leadership positions at the church. In the recipe description she brags that Apple……
Gooseberry Ketchup (adapted from Mountain Memories)
Perhaps the recipes that best capture the spirit of Mountain Memories are the jams and jellies and pickles. Both the vegetable and fruit chapters are prefaced with memories of sauerkraut barrels in the family cellar, the necessity of storing food through rough winters, and pioneer methods for food preservation. They rely on local fruits and……
Belgardin Brod (from Christmas Convoys, 1952)
Belgardin Brod is one of several traditional European “cookies” featured in Christmas Convoys. In practice it looks and feels more like a cracker than a cookie, and tastes kind of like a cross between a ginger snap and a snickerdoodle with strong citrus overtones. It’s kind of like the old fashioned grandma candy equivalent of……
Chicken and Mushroom Cream Soup (Egypt, adapted from Together: Our Community Cookbook)
One of the most enjoyable recipes in Together: Our Community Cookbook is a creamy chicken and mushroom soup submitted by Amaal abd Elrasoul, who came to London to help her sister-in-law after the Grenfell Tower fire. She credits the recipe to a neighbor in Cairo. In her own words: It is very special – shredded……