Recipe of the Month

  • German Apple Cake

    German Apple Cake

    This dish in the Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook comes from Frieda Mair of Ocala, Florida who arrived on Ellis Island from Germany on October 20, 1929.

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  • Italian Easter-Egg Bread Baskets

    Italian Easter-Egg Bread Baskets

    The Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook’s recipe, Italian Easter-Egg Bread Baskets comes from Cynthia Abate-Upson of South Lawrence, Massachusetts.

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  • Kjot Suppe (Meat Soup)

    Kjot Suppe (Meat Soup)

    Try this delicious recipe from The Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook. Today's dish comes from Rolf Nelson of Staten Island, New York.

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  • Lemon Sorbet

    Lemon Sorbet

    The hot weather is here, time for a cool dessert. Today's sweet treat for Lemon Sorbet is from the National Geographic cookbook Tasting Italy.

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  • Easiest Chicken Teriyaki

    Easiest Chicken Teriyaki

    Recently added to our website Shop is the newly published The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes. The debut cookbook from the popular New York Times website and mobile app NYT Cooking, features 100 beautifully photographed no-recipe recipes.

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  • Meatball Soup

    Meatball Soup

    This recipe from The Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook comes from Deana Solomon of Flushing, Michigan. Deana’s mother and brother came to America by way of Ellis Island in December 1916 from Turkey. Deana’s father had arrived on Ellis Island from Turkey in 1912.

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