We asked readers to submit cherished recipes from their mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers. Cookies and pies, casseroles, old-fashioned breads, and even preserves and pickles—came pouring in. We picked the most promising, put them through rigorous testing and tweaking, and collected the very best for this classic American cookbook, including awarding a $25,000 top prize for our favorite recipe.
In this video, see the final tasting where the editors at America’s Test Kitchen select the dish that wins the $25,000.
Our newest book, From our Grandmothers’ Kitchen, features 120 truly “American” recipes in the great tradition known as the world’s melting pot. Recipes like Bubbe’s Passover Brisket from Poland (dried apricots and plums make this wonderful brisket both sweet and savory), cardamom-spiced Swedish Coffee Bread (a grandmother’s perfect breakfast treat), and Old Time Latvian Rolls (brought to Indiana with grandparents who fled the 1940 Soviet invasion). Then there are those recipes that were born closer to home, like Pennsylvania Dutch Shoo-Fly Cake, the blue plate special from Grandma Alpha’s Ribs from a tavern in rural Ohio and even Grated Bread and Chocolate Bread Cake. (our $25,000 contest winner!)
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I hope the "less generic" variations are at least noted in the recipes in case those regional ingredients are available to the cook! It'd be a shame if someone in the region couldn't use the original locally available ingredient, if it works just as well, because the book thought they wouldn't have access to it even though they do! And a lot of us often seeking out specialty ingredients for recipes, especially favorite recipes where we want to see if the exotic "authentic" ingredients make a difference and are worth the additonal effort and cost to acquire. Or maybe we're just lucky enough to live near some good specialty shops!
I can not even describe how much I love this show.
It was the Light Bread Apple Pie
My great grandmothers recipe was in the top 16 🙂 YAY!!!!
That was a cute video & a cute idea. I was wondering did any Food Network stars or other celebrities send in any of their grandmother's recipes i mean how cool would it have been if you would have read some of the recipes only to realize that they were sent in from some food network stars like Pat & gina Neely, or Giada De Laurentiis, or Paula Deen.