Old-fashioned recipes made with simple ingredients and timeless flavors. From classic casseroles to vintage desserts, these nostalgic favorites are perfect for Sunday supper, potlucks, and family gatherings. Choose one or two to make now, and save this collection of easy, from-scratch comfort food recipes you'll come back to again and again.
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Old-Fashioned Baked Macaroni and Cheese Recipe
I've been making this Southern baked mac and cheese for over 50 years, and it never fails to bring rave reviews. With its creamy cheese sauce and buttery Ritz cracker topping, this recipe is old-fashioned comfort food you'll want to share again and again.
Old Fashioned Mac & Cheese
2
Old Fashioned American Coleslaw Recipe (Creamy)
This American classic southern-style coleslaw has it all: fresh, crunchy green cabbage, shredded carrots, and a homemade coleslaw dressing with mayonnaise and apple cider vinegar.
Old Fashioned Coleslaw
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Easy Old Fashioned Creamed Potatoes
This quick and easy recipe for Old Fashioned Creamed Potatoes features cubed potatoes cooked to perfection, blanketed in a silky bechamel sauce made with heavy cream, and brightened with a touch of lemon juice and nutmeg.
Old Fashioned Creamed Potatoes
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Old Fashioned Cucumbers, Tomatoes and Onions in Vinegar
Old Fashioned Cucumbers, Tomatoes and Onions in Vinegar features a lovely combination of fresh flavors with crisp, cool cucumbers, sweet, ripe tomatoes, and just a touch of zesty red onions. These vegetables are marinated in a simple but tasty, sweet and tangy, salad dressing made with apple cider vinegar.
Old Fashioned Cucumber & Tomato Salad
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Old Fashioned Strawberry Pie Recipe with Jello
A blast from the past, no-bake Old-Fashioned Strawberry Pie with Jello and a graham cracker crust is bursting with fresh flavors. The fool-proof pie filling is full of ripe, lush, sun-kissed strawberries immersed in a delectable strawberry glaze made with strawberry jello.
Old Fashioned Strawberry Pie
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Old-Fashioned Pimento Cheese Recipe
Full of cheesy goodness, this simple, old-fashioned pimento cheese recipe includes white and yellow sharp cheddar cheese, roasted red peppers instead of pimento peppers, mayonnaise, and ground red and black pepper.
Old Fashioned Pimento Cheese
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Old Fashioned Pear Pie Recipe (Just Like Grandma Used to Make!)
This easy Old Fashioned Pear Pie recipe is the cozy, nostalgic dessert you didn't know you were missing! Made with fresh or canned pears, warm cinnamon and nutmeg, and a buttery, flaky crust, this simple Southern dessert is perfect for holidays or just because.
Old Fashioned Pear Pie
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Old Fashioned Crunchy Gingersnap Cookies Recipe
This recipe for Old-Fashioned Crunchy Gingersnap Cookies is simple and easy to make. The cookies have a strong ginger flavor and are full of dark, sweet, molasses, and warm spices including cloves and cinnamon.
Old Fashioned Gingersnaps
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Old-Fashioned Fruit Salad with Orange Simple Syrup
This Old-Fashioned Fruit Salad with Orange Simple Syrup combines fresh berries, peaches, and grapes with a light homemade orange-vanilla syrup that enhances flavor and keeps the fruit glossy. It's my go-to make-ahead fruit salad for brunch, holidays, and gatherings.
Old Fashioned Fruit Salad
10
Old-Fashioned Southern Tomato Gravy
Often served on top of fluffy biscuits and full of tomatoey goodness, this old-fashioned breakfast treat is the stuff legends are made of. Tomato gravy is thick and rich with chunks of tomatoes studded with bits of bacon, onion, and bell pepper and doesn't resemble the more traditional brown gravy.
Old Fashioned Tomato Gravy
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Easy Old-Fashioned Southern Peach Cobbler Recipe
Easy Old-Fashioned Southern Peach Cobbler is a simple cobbler recipe, baked in a cast-iron skillet, featuring fresh, frozen, or canned, sweet, juicy peaches and a perfect homemade crust. One bite of this luscious, made from scratch cobbler, and you will understand the true meaning of comfort food.
Old Fashioned Peach Cobbler
12
Old-Fashioned Pecan Pralines Recipe
Old-Fashioned Pralines are a classic Southern candy. These luscious, crunchy bites of heaven taste a little like a combination of creamy butterscotch and caramel, all wrapped up in a sugary, fudgy package.
Old Fashioned Pecan Pralines
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Old-Fashioned Southern Pecan Pie
One bite of my Old-Fashioned Southern Pecan Pie made without corn syrup, and your taste buds will be swooning with crunchy, sweet, caramelly goodness. Classic and simple, it's a holiday tradition, and it's also one of the easiest homemade pecan custard pies you will ever make!
Old Fashioned Pecan Pie
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Old-Fashioned Blackberry Pie Recipe
This quick and easy recipe features the perfect balance of sweet and tart flavors with fresh, juicy, sweet blackberries or dewberries wrapped in a flakey, buttery crust. Add a scoop of vanilla ice cream, and it's the stuff dessert legends are made of.
Old Fashioned Blackberry Pie
15
Old-Fashioned Southern Strawberry Shortcakes Recipe
With fresh red, juicy strawberries, billowy clouds of whipped cream, and crunchy old-fashioned cornmeal shortcake biscuits, this quick, and easy dessert is as beautiful as it is delicious!
Old Fashioned Strawberry Shortcake
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Easy Old-Fashioned Frozen Fruit Salad Recipe
Easy Old-Fashioned Fruit Salad is bursting with flavor and chock full of pineapple, cherries, and pecans that are enveloped in a creamy, dreamy mixture of lemon yogurt, frozen whipped topping, and lemon zest. It's perfect for serving at showers, ladies luncheons, holiday brunches and would be excellent to serve at a Mother's Day or Easter brunch or luncheon.
Old Fashioned Frozen Fruit Salad
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Old-Fashioned Style Cornbread Recipe
Old Fashioned Southern Cornbread made in a cast-iron skillet with buttermilk is a true Southern staple and an easy and quick gluten-free recipe!
Old Fashioned Cornbread
18
Best Sausage Gravy Breakfast Casserole (Easy)
Old-fashioned, foolproof, and delicious, this southern sausage gravy casserole is easy to make using refrigerated biscuits. It's perfect for cozy weekend breakfasts with the family or brunch for a special occasion.
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Old Fashioned Sausage Gravy Breakfast Casserole
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Easy Old Fashioned Salmon Patties Recipe
Also known as salmon cakes or croquettes, these salmon patties are packed with fresh salmon, bell peppers, green onions, and celery and seasoned with garlic, lemon juice, dill, and Old Bay.
Old Fashioned Salmon Patties
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Pistachio Pudding Recipe
Pistachio Pudding Dessert is an old-fashioned, tasty dessert made with pistachio pudding, crushed pineapple, pistachios, marshmallows, and whipped topping.
Old Fashioned Pistachio Pudding
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Easy Southern Potato Salad Recipe
A classic Southern Potato Salad, just like Grandma used to make; this easy old-fashioned side-dish is creamy, tangy deliciousness. And, it's full of crunchy dill pickles, yellow mustard, mayonnaise, and must-have hard-boiled eggs!
Old Fashioned Potato Salad
More recipes for a classic Sunday supper
If these old-fashioned recipes have you craving a full Sunday spread, here are a few more tried-and-true favorites to round out your table.
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