Historical recipes

Australia is famous for its healthy food scene—but what about jaffles, sausie rolls, and Tim Tams? Let's show some love to the crazy delicious junk foods that you can only find in Australia.

The staple ration for Union soldiers was hardtack, a rock-hard biscuit. But other simple Civil War recipes, like soups, stews and hash, could be made with whatever ingredients the soldiers had on hand.

Thanks to the work of scholars and home cooks, the often challenging work of translating very old recipes has been done for you. This is the Recipes Project.

Food, glorious food, we’re anxious to try it… Okay, okay, I won’t sing anymore, but this is going to be fun and drool-inducing! I’ve been cooking since I was about 10 years old. As a cub scout, I had to cook three meals for my cooking badge (yes, that is a thing). These three meals ... Read more

This easy homemade condensed milk bread recipe yields incredibly soft, fluffy, sweet, and milky bread that you can't stop eating.

Can you imagine the cuisine of our ancestors from the Thirteen Colonies? For years, I believed that I couldn’t imagine eating only a few dishes every single day, including corns, sunflowers, or meat. It sounds so ... Read more

Learn a colonial recipe from Thomas Jefferson's family at Monticello for White Bean Soup. Vegetarian, healthy, delicious historical recipe.

Take a culinary trip into the past with this modern rendition of a historic recipe. “Take one pound of apples stew them & sweten [sweeten] them to your taste add some spice one glass wine on[e] of Brandy and four eggs beat to a froth.” (Miss Catharine Baker’s Receipt Book by Catharine Baker, 1814)

This 1800's recipe for soft molasses gingerbread is very easy and requires only 6 ingredients. Sweetened only with molasses, and spiced with ginger, it's delicious.

Get a taste of the Roaring Twenties with these vintage recipes for oysters Rockefeller, finger sandwiches, icebox cakes and more. 1920s food had a lot to offer!