Simple and surprisingly flavorful beans that are boiled then baked with red pepper and bacon

A dense and wonderfully flavorful pound cake made with nutmeg and brandy

Hearty soup made with made-to-last ingredients like canned corned beef, canned peas, and lots of ketchup

Delicious and nostalgic sloppy joes from American school cafeterias of the 80s and 90s

Crispy, delicious, extremely snackable sugar cookies

If you had cheese pizza at school in the 80s or 90s, this recipe with a pourable crust will be a walk down memory lane

A very different Christmas pudding made with chocolate and gelatin

Festive glacé cherries coated in several layers of hardened sugar that are not really worth the effort

Rich, boozy, nutmeggy eggnog that’s easy to make and so much better than the store bought kind

A tasty, if basic, tuna noodle casserole as it could have been made in the Japanese incarceration camps during WWII

Simple but delicious cranberry and apple pie filling in a wonderfully buttery crust

Surprisingly delicious yeasted cake with spices and raisins

Cookies with pieces of Baby Ruth candy bars. What’s not to like?

A not-too-sweet tart that tastes like a vanilla cookie with jam with a meringue topping

Gooey, fudgy brownies with walnuts that are dense without being heavy with a crackly top

A tasty meatloaf-like mixture from the rationing days of WWII in the US

The no-sugar-added original recipe for Corn Flakes: bland and crispy

Pie made with hardtack (clack clack) and a potato crust that actually tastes like apple pie

The original deep dish pizza from the 1940s with a bready crust

A simple whiskey cocktail for people who like whiskey as it tastes like slightly sweetened whiskey