American Recipes

Pot roasts, casseroles and the comfort food of the American Sunday table.

A deep oxblood-red baking dish of Southern cornbread dressing on a worn wooden table, the top craggy and golden-brown, one corner scooped out with a spoon to show a moist yellow inside flecked with celery, onion and sage, with fresh sage leaves, a bowl of cranberry sauce and an orange napkin nearby

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Southern Cornbread Dressing from Scratch, for Thanksgiving

10 servings · 1 hr 50 min

A homemade sweet potato pie in a clear glass pie plate on a honey-colored pine table: a smooth, matte burnt-orange filling flecked with nutmeg inside a fluted golden crust, one wedge cut out and set on a cream plate with whipped cream, with raw copper-skinned sweet potatoes, a whole nutmeg, a grater and a rust-orange napkin behind it

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Sweet Potato Pie: A Southern Custard Pie from Scratch

1 pie, 8 slices · 4 hr 30 min

Southern banana pudding in a deep oval glass baking dish on a blue-and-white checked cloth: layers of pale yellow vanilla custard, vanilla wafers and banana slices showing through the glass under a tall meringue toasted golden at the peaks, one end scooped out, with a serving in a cream bowl, two ripe bananas and a few plain vanilla wafers beside it

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Southern Banana Pudding with Homemade Custard and Meringue

8 servings · 1 hr 45 min

Classic pot roast in a red enameled cast-iron Dutch oven, partly sliced, with carrots, halved potatoes, onion wedges and gravy

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Classic Pot Roast with Carrots and Potatoes (Dutch Oven)

6 servings · 4 hr