Canada

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Canada

24 recipes

Smooth plain stirred yogurt in an ivory bowl with a separate bottle of milk behind.

Stirred yogurt

This plain yogurt is heated, cultured warm and stirred smooth after chilling. A Canadian home method uses fresh plain yogurt to start the lactic fermentation.

Canada · Modern method
· Dairy
Plain sour cream in a round ivory bowl with a stainless teaspoon beside it.

Sour cream

Sour cream is light cream thickened and soured by a lactic starter. This Canadian method uses homogenized cream and lets the gel form in its storage container.

Canada · Modern method
· Dairy
Three plain golden sourdough pancakes stacked on an ivory plate.

Overnight sourdough pancakes

Buttermilk, flour and sourdough discard rest overnight before eggs and baking soda turn the sponge into a griddle batter. The finished pancakes are tender and lightly tangy.

United States · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Illustrative mound of freshly churned sweet-cream butter, washed and worked on a plain ceramic plate.

Churned sweet-cream butter

Sweet-cream butter is made by churning unsoured cream until its butterfat globules join, then draining, washing, salting and packing the butter.

Canada
Dairy
Illustrative still life of a compact, crumbly dried-meat-and-fat mixture with a few dried berries on a plain dish; it does not represent a specific historical batch or preparation method.
High risk

Pemmican

Pemmican is dried meat mixed with rendered animal fat, sometimes with berries. Sources link it to Indigenous North American food traditions and later fur-trade provisioning. This documentary entry gives no home preparation or storage method.

North America
Meat
Glossy whole-berry cranberry sauce in a white bowl, with some berries burst and thickened.

Cranberry sauce

Cranberry sauce is a sauce of cranberries cooked in sugar syrup until the berries burst and thicken, served with roast turkey, pork, chicken and ham.

United States
Condiments
Illustrative hard-dried split salted cod side on a neutral wooden surface.

Dried salted cod

Cod split, salted and dried on flakes until hard, a long-keeping fish that must be desalted and rehydrated before use; the salting and the extensive drying together make it portable where light salting or partial drying does not.

Newfoundland · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
A small stack of thin Acadian ployes with a pale, lacy top full of holes and golden cooked undersides.

Ployes

A thin buckwheat-and-wheat batter, loosened with cold and hot water, cooked on one side until lacy holes form and the top sets.

Northern Maine · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Illustrative bowl of plain fresh cottage cheese with small soft curds.

Cottage cheese, long-set

Skim milk is cultured slowly, cut into curds, warmed and drained to make fresh cottage cheese. Cold-water washing softens its flavour before cream and salt are added.

Canada · Modern method
· Dairy
Illustrative whole, paraffin-coated cheese based on the Canadian home-dairy method; the source does not specify its mould shape or interior.
Elevated risk

Semi-soft cheese

A mild whole-milk cheese set with starter and rennet, drained in a mould, dry-salted and ripened. This small-batch method appeared in Canadian home-dairy guidance.

Canada · Modern method
· Dairy
A portion of firm, deep red-brown wind-dried salmon strips on a plain plate.
High risk

Fraser Canyon wind-dried salmon

Salmon opened, scored and hung on roofed racks in the dry canyon winds of the Fraser River: slhíts'es in Stó:lō documentation, sts'wan in St'át'imc records.

Fraser River watershed · Traditional method
Fish and seafood
Illustrative finished Newfoundland dried salt cod: a split cod side with a pale, salt-crusted surface on a weathered flake board.
Elevated risk

Newfoundland dried salt cod

Atlantic cod split, salted and dried on raised flakes along the Newfoundland and Labrador shore, manufactured ashore for markets across the Atlantic.

Newfoundland and Labrador · Traditional method
Fish and seafood
Thin rosy-red slices of Montréal smoked meat with a visible fat seam and peppered edges on a warm white plate.
High risk

Montréal smoked meat

Montréal smoked meat is a brisket-centred Jewish deli specialty shaped by migration and Montréal's restaurant culture. This entry documents reported commercial traditions and one deli's account; it is not a home-curing method.

Montréal
· Meat
Golden sesame and poppy seed Montréal-style bagels on parchment and a wooden board, one torn open to show its pale crumb.

Montréal-style bagels

Eight slender Québec-style rings are hand-shaped, simmered in sweetened water, seeded and baked on a preheated stone in this home adaptation.

Québec · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Illustrative finished pipsi-style dried Arctic char, opened and scored; this image does not document a particular batch or validate a home drying process.
High risk

Pipsi

Arctic char opened, scored and air-dried in the Canadian Arctic: concentrated, chewy country food recorded as pipsi in Nunavut and pitsik in Nunavik.

Nunavut · Traditional method
Fish and seafood
Three golden pan-fried Newfoundland toutons with butter and molasses, one broken open to show its soft bread center.

Newfoundland toutons

Rounds of leftover yeasted white bread dough, rested and shallow-fried slowly in canola oil; served warm with butter and molasses.

Newfoundland and Labrador · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Plain set yogurt in an open glass jar, with a separate ceramic milk jug behind.

Set yogurt

Set yogurt keeps the milk’s cultured gel intact in its final container. This Canadian home method follows the same heating and inoculation as stirred yogurt, without the final stirring.

Canada · Modern method
· Dairy
Pale yellow cultured butter on an oval ivory dish, with a clean butter knife beside it.

Cultured butter

Cultured butter is churned from cream soured with lactic cultures. Its lightly tart flavour comes from the cultured cream, which separates into butter grains and buttermilk.

Canada · Modern adaptation
· Dairy
A finished dark golden Newfoundland molasses-raisin loaf with a slice showing its raisin-studded crumb.

Newfoundland lassy raisin bread (Hemeon family recipe)

A Newfoundland family-style sweet yeast loaf with molasses, raisins, cinnamon and cloves. This version follows a half-batch adaptation of Nanny Hemeon's family formula; it is not a standard recipe for all Newfoundland households.

Newfoundland and Labrador
A plain round of golden bannock scored into portions in a cast-iron pan over embers

Bannock (North American)

This flour, baking-powder and oil dough is Parks Canada’s contemporary Métis-interpreter version prepared at Rocky Mountain House; its specific recipe origin is unknown.

Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site
Pourable cultured skim-milk buttermilk in a clear glass carafe and glass.

Cultured buttermilk

Cultured buttermilk is skim milk soured with a lactic starter into a tangy drink. This Canadian home method sets the milk without churning cream.

Canada · Modern method
· Dairy
Illustrative pale, gently aerated pâte fermentée dough in a glass bowl

Pâte fermentée

Pâte fermentée is a bread preferment made from salted, yeasted dough set aside to ferment and mixed into a later batch, carrying developed dough and fermentation products with it.

France · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Plain fresh cream cheese on an ivory plate, with a smooth scrape and a separate butter knife.

Cream cheese

A fresh cultured-cream spread, set gently and drained in muslin in the refrigerator. This home method uses light cream and a small amount of cultured buttermilk.

Canada · Modern method
· Dairy