Recipes

1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.

Recipes

Finished French sauce gribiche, a pale yellow cold egg sauce with chopped cornichons, capers, herbs and egg white in a plain bowl.

Gribiche

A cold French sauce of emulsified hard-boiled egg yolk and mustard, finished with chopped pickled cucumber, capers and herbs and julienned egg white.

France
Condiments
Photograph of Pan-heated frozen mushrooms.
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Pan-heated frozen mushrooms

Pan-heated frozen mushrooms are cut mushrooms cooked briefly in margarine or butter in an open pan, cooled and frozen as a partly cooked ingredient for later meals.


Three golden Paraguayan chipa rings on an ivory plate, one broken open to show its interior.

Paraguayan chipa: Laylita's version

Cassava-starch cheese rings made with mozzarella, eggs and milk, with optional anise. This modern version uses baking powder and no dough fermentation.

Paraguay · Modern method
· Grains and starches
A round lardy cake with a glossy golden top and a cut wedge showing fruit-studded layers.

Lardy cake

A yeast dough is folded around sweetened lard and dried fruit, then baked in tins until the bottom caramelizes.

Gloucestershire · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Dense brick-red Yucatecan achiote paste in a warm ivory ceramic bowl, with annatto seeds, garlic and citrus outside.

Achiote paste

A Yucatecan recado rojo is a brick-red seasoning paste built on annatto seed, garlic and sour orange. This measured home version shows one route into a much wider family of market and household recados.

Yaxunah
· Condiments
Photograph of Taramosalata.

Taramosalata

A meze of salted cured fish roe, most often cod, beaten with olive oil, lemon juice and a starchy base of bread or potato, from Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.

Greece
Condiments
Stoccafisso all'anconitana baked with potatoes, tomatoes and olives in a rustic casserole.
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Stoccafisso all'anconitana

Ancona's baked stockfish: thick pieces layered with potatoes, tomatoes, olives, capers and anchovy under olive oil and white wine, cooked slowly in a covered dish.

Ancona · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Illustrative Orkney barley-or-oat bannocks: two thick, lightly griddled rounds with coarse tan crumb; not a photograph of Anne Johnson's batch.

Orkney barley or oat bannocks

Two round, chemically raised bannocks made with equal weights of white flour and beremeal, barley flour or oat flour, following Anne Johnson's Orkney formula.

Orkney · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Photograph of Smoked salt.

Smoked salt

Flaky or coarse sea salt takes on hickory smoke in a pellet grill. A shallow tray lets the smoke reach the crystals before they cool for airtight storage.

Modern method
· Condiments
Coarse citrus-zest salt with yellow, orange, and green peel flecks in a plain ceramic bowl

Citrus salt

Citrus zest is rubbed into coarse or flake salt and dried on a tray. This peel-based seasoning preserves the chosen citrus aroma without adding juice.

Modern method
· Condiments
Photograph of Salt-and-sugar cured egg yolks.
Elevated risk

Salt-and-sugar cured egg yolks

Whole egg yolks are buried in a dry bed of salt and sugar for four to seven days, then dried briefly. A modern preparation whose raw-egg risk the cure does not remove.


Photograph of Remoulade (French).

Remoulade (French)

A French cold sauce made from mayonnaise with mustard, capers, cornichons and fresh herbs, served with fish, shellfish and red meats.

France
Condiments
Coarsely crushed green-chilli and peanut thecha in a stone mortar, with green chillies, peanuts and garlic nearby.

Green-chilli and peanut thecha

A fresh Maharashtrian thecha of green chillies, peanuts and garlic, roasted separately in the same oil and crushed with salt. Optional coriander joins the pan before grinding; serve with bhakari.

Maharashtra · Modern method
· Condiments
A coarse bowl of fresh green nam jim seafood, with a prawn, lime, Thai chillies, garlic and cilantro alongside.

Nam jim seafood

A Thai seafood dipping sauce of chiles, garlic, cilantro stems, fish sauce, lime juice and palm sugar, pounded or briefly blended for a coarse texture.

Thailand · Modern method
· Condiments
Photograph of Pressure-canned mushrooms.
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Pressure-canned mushrooms

Whole or sliced domestic mushrooms packed hot in jars with fresh water and processed in a pressure canner, the tested home method for a low-acid vegetable.

United States
Photograph of Mojo verde.
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Mojo verde

A green sauce of garlic, cumin, green chilli and fresh coriander or parsley in olive oil and vinegar, traditionally served with fish in the Canary Islands.

Canary Islands
Condiments
Smooth homogeneous Chilean chancho en piedra freshly ground in a dark stone mortar with its pestle.

Chancho en piedra

Chancho en piedra is a Chilean sauce of tomato, garlic, cumin and chilli, ground by hand in a stone mortar. Its name refers to the stone, not to pork.

Talca
Condiments
Coarsely mashed cooked broad beans with garlic in a ceramic bowl beside rustic flatbread.
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Broad-bean mash (modern reconstruction)

Cooked broad beans crushed to a thick paste with garlic and salt, a museum preparation built on the one European pulse that was already old when the Viking Age began.

Ribe · Modern adaptation
· Legumes and seeds
Pale whipped stockfish cream with parsley on grilled polenta, served on a dark wooden table
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Baccalà mantecato

A Venetian cicchetto of cooked unsalted stockfish beaten with oil until it turns into a pale, aerated cream, spooned onto grilled polenta in the city's wine bars.

Venice · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Roasted bacalhau à lagareiro in a shallow ceramic dish with golden potatoes, onion, garlic and olive oil.
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Bacalhau à lagareiro

Thick pieces of desalted salt cod roasted in olive oil with garlic and onion, served with small potatoes cooked and then crushed until their skins split.

Portugal · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Fresh Colombian ají picante in a white bowl, with chopped cilantro, parsley, scallion, tomato and chile in a thin vinegar dressing; served beside a fried corn empanada.

Ají picante (Colombian table ají)

A fresh Colombian table condiment of chopped herbs, scallion and tomato in a vinegar and chile base, served beside fried and filled dishes.

Colombia · Traditional method
Condiments
Golden-orange Colombian ají de uchuvas with goldenberry seeds, chile, scallion and cilantro.

Ají de uchuvas

A sweet, tart and spicy Colombian sauce of uchuva, the yellow physalis fruit, with hot pepper, scallion, cilantro and lime.

Colombia · Modern adaptation
Condiments
Frisian suikerbrood loaf and slices showing a soft cinnamon-sugar swirl and pearl sugar.

Frisian suikerbrood: Toine's version

Yeasted sugar bread with cinnamon, pearl sugar and ginger syrup, shaped into two standard loaves or three paper-pan loaves.

Friesland · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Illustrative bowl of coarse herb salt with garlic and green herb flecks.

Fragrant herb salt

Fresh garlic and pungent herbs are chopped with kosher salt, then dried in the warmth of a switched-off oven. The blend keeps the selected herbs together in one seasoning.

Modern method
· Condiments
Warm golden-orange Ecuadorian salsa de maní in a bowl beside two llapingachos.

Ecuadorian salsa de maní

A warm, creamy peanut sauce thickened with milk and seasoned with onion, cumin and achiote, served over potatoes and llapingachos in Ecuador.

Ecuador · Traditional method
Condiments
Bacalhau à Brás with cod flakes, fine potato matchsticks and black olives, served on a pale plate.
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Bacalhau à Brás

Lisbon's salt cod dish: shredded desalted cod and fine fried potato matchsticks folded through softened onion and bound with beaten egg, finished with parsley and black olives.

Lisbon · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Creamy Provençal anchoïade of anchovy, garlic, capers and olive oil in a ceramic bowl, with vegetables and toast.

Anchoiade

A Provencal dip of anchovies, garlic, capers and olive oil, pounded or blended to a creamy paste and served with raw vegetables, bread and eggs.

Provence
Condiments
Illustrative serving of pale-gold hopped beer; the page documents a brewing process, not one exact batch.

Beer

This is a process overview, not a complete batch recipe: key quantities, yield and packaging directions are absent. The AHA tutorial uses Hop Hammer Imperial IPA as an example; this page is not that full formulation.

Historic Jamestowne, Virginia · Modern adaptation
· Drinks
Pale green whipped hilbeh with cilantro, green onion, lemon and lahoh in the background

Hilbeh (fenugreek foam)

A whipped condiment of soaked ground fenugreek seed, aerated until foamy and finished with herbs, chilli and lemon. It comes from Yemen.

Yemen
Condiments
Photograph of Padaek.
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Padaek

Padaek is a Lao salt-fermented freshwater fish paste used as a seasoning and preserved food. This record covers documented uses and safety gaps; it does not offer an unvalidated home method.

Laos · Traditional method
Condiments
Illustrative soy sauce: a small ceramic dish of thin, translucent, deep reddish-brown seasoning.

Soy sauce

Soy sauce is a salted liquid seasoning made by growing koji mould on soybeans and grain, maturing the mash in brine and pressing out the liquid. Japan's shoyu is the best-documented form.

Japan · Traditional method
· Condiments
Original editorial reconstruction of Georgian Bazhe walnut sauce, creamy and pepper-flecked in a plain ceramic bowl.

Bazhe (walnut sauce base)

A Georgian walnut sauce of ground walnuts, garlic, vinegar and spices, thinned with water or broth. It is served with poultry, vegetables and bread, and is the sauce of the dish satsivi.

Georgia
· Condiments
Hard smoked and dried tuna pieces with fibrous cut faces and thin shavings on an earthenware plate.
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Maldive fish

Maldive fish is a hard, smoke-dried tuna product made in the Maldives and traded especially to Sri Lanka, where it is known as umbalakada. Cooks shave or pound it into a concentrated savory seasoning for sambols, curries and other dishes.

Maldives · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Photograph of Verde sawse (medieval green herb sauce).

Verde sawse (medieval green herb sauce)

A green herb sauce from The Forme of Cury, about 1390, of parsley, mint, garlic and sage ground with bread, wine, vinegar and warm spices, coloured and flavoured with saffron. It is not fermented.


Photograph of Mushroom garum (koji garum).
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Mushroom garum (koji garum)

Mushroom garum is a savoury, smoked sauce made by crushing mushrooms with salt and rice koji and letting the mixture brew for months, a modern use of the garum method without fish.

Copenhagen · Modern method
· Condiments
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
A hard, dark smoke-dried Arabushi bonito block rests on a wooden board beside a few thin bonito shavings and a traditional hand-shaver.
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Arabushi (smoke-dried bonito)

Japanese skipjack tuna cooked, then repeatedly smoked and dried over a wood fire by the hand-fired tebiyama method into a hard block for shaving into dashi: the first stage of katsuobushi.

Nakiri, Daio, Shima · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Dry pale katsuobushi flakes in a shallow ceramic dish beside a dark, hard honkarebushi block.
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Bonito flakes (katsuobushi)

Katsuobushi is skipjack tuna cooked, smoked and dried into a hard block that is shaved into flakes for dashi and toppings. Some styles stop at the smoke-dried stage; others receive carefully managed mold maturation.

Japan · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Photograph of Tucupi negro.
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Tucupi negro

Tucupi negro is a dark, pungent sauce that Amazonian Indigenous women make by pressing bitter cassava, settling its starch and simmering the juice for hours until it thickens.

Pucaurquillo, Ampiyacu River, near Iquitos · Traditional method
· Condiments
Illustrative reconstruction of oenogarum ingredients; ancient sources do not establish an exact ratio or serving appearance.
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Oenogarum

Oenogarum is fish sauce mixed with wine, pepper and often olive oil: a Roman table sauce in the Apicius cookbook, and a reduced, strained sauce in a later medical text.

Roman world · Historical attestation
· Fish and seafood
Illustrative still life of a small terracotta vessel and cup of dark amber fish sauce, inspired by ancient Mediterranean artifacts; not a reconstruction of one recipe or period.
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Garum (garos, liquamen)

Garum, Greek garos and Latin liquamen, was the fish sauce of the ancient Mediterranean: fish and viscera salted and left in the sun, then drained off as a savoury liquid.

Greece · Historical attestation
· Fish and seafood
A small glass of still pale-amber mead, made from fermented diluted honey, with honeycomb softly out of focus behind it.

Mead

Mead is an alcoholic drink made by fermenting diluted honey with yeast, then racking and ageing it. The honey, not refined sugar, is what makes it mead.

Traditional method
· Drinks
An illustrative open stick grill with whole fish above embers; this generic reconstruction is not a documentary image or a preservation guide.
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Moquém

Moquém is the Brazilian Indigenous method of laying meat or fish on a grill of wooden sticks to roast, dry or smoke it, and also the name of the grill itself.

Brazil
A sake bottle is partly immersed in a warm-water bath as a probe checks hi-ire temperature.

Hi-ire (heat treatment of sake)

Hi-ire is the Japanese heat treatment of finished sake, about 65 °C, used to stop re-fermentation and souring. Brewers applied it from the Muromachi era.

Japan
Drinks
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
Photograph of Salsa de ajo (Venezuelan garlic sauce).

Salsa de ajo (Venezuelan garlic sauce)

Salsa de ajo is a creamy Venezuelan garlic sauce made from mayonnaise blended with fresh garlic, herbs, green onion and vinegar. It is served with empanadas, arepas and grilled meat.

Venezuela
Condiments
Illustrative red and white wine vinegar variants in clear glass cruets with small tasting dishes; no protected regional origin is implied.

Wine Vinegar

Wine vinegar is made by the aerobic oxidation of wine's alcohol into acetic acid by bacteria, producing a sour, wine-derived condiment used in dressings, sauces, marinades and preserved foods.

Roman Italy · Traditional method
· Condiments
Photograph of Vincotto.

Vincotto

Vincotto is a dark, thick, sweet paste made by slowly cooking down unfermented grape must in rural Italy, used as a seasoning for savoury dishes and desserts.

Basilicata
Photograph of Tartare sauce.
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Tartare sauce

A mayonnaise sauce with chopped gherkins or capers, herbs and lemon, served with fried and grilled fish. It was named in nineteenth-century France alongside steak tartare.

France
Condiments
A glass of thick Istanbul-style boza with cinnamon, beside roasted chickpeas.
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Istanbul bulgur and rice boza

A thick, pale Turkish winter drink of bulgur and rice cooked to a soft cereal base, sweetened with grape molasses and fermented for two days.

Istanbul · Traditional method
· Drinks