North America

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

North America

5 recipes

Ball sweet pumpkin pickles in its finished form.
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Ball sweet pumpkin pickles

Ball sweet pumpkin pickles: Cupboard: exact published Ball formulation and water-bath process.

North America · Modern method
· Vegetables
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.
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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
A thin dark fruit-leather sheet on a pale plate, with one edge rolled back to show its flexible dried texture.

Fruit leather

Fruit pulp spread into thin sheets or shaped into cakes and dried, a compact, portable way of keeping fruit in western and central Asia and among Indigenous North Americans.

Western and central Asia
Fruit
Whole-wheat potato-starch hamburger buns on a baking tray, with one cut bun showing its soft crumb. Illustrative image, not a photograph of the source author’s batch.

Potato sandwich buns and rolls

Whole-wheat burger buns gain a soft crumb from potato starch, yeast and a short rise, then bake on a home sheet pan.

North America
A glossy braided chocolate babka loaf with one slice showing its chocolate-filled layers.

Chocolate babka

A yeasted enriched dough is rolled with cocoa, chocolate, nuts and cinnamon, twisted into two loaf pans, topped with streusel and baked.

Eastern Europe