626 pantry recipes

Drunken pioneers pasta: wagon wheels topped with sauteed peppers and onions in a quick red wine and beef-stock sauce with basil and rosemary. Pantry weeknight pasta in 25 minutes.

Old-fashioned Nantucket molasses cookies with brown sugar, butter, and a soft, cake-like texture. Six pantry ingredients and no eggs, just like the New England whaling-era originals.

Spaghetti aglio e olio with sliced garlic sautéed in extra-virgin olive oil, hot pimento, and fresh parsley. The classic Italian pantry pasta that proves less is more.

Easy sugar cookies you simply roll into balls and bake, no chilling and no cookie cutters. Soft, buttery, vanilla-scented cookies from pantry staples, golden at the edges and ready in under half an hour.

Date sticks: chewy bar cookies packed with chopped dates and nuts in a tender cake-like base, cut into strips and dusted with powdered sugar. Pantry-staple treat.

Five-alarm salsa made with tomato purée, green chilies, onion, garlic, and lime, then water-bath canned for shelf-stable pantry heat. Five ingredients, two pints, serious kick.

Lean cabbage and tomato soup simmered with carrots, onion, and beef bouillon for an hour, a pantry-friendly low-fat brothy bowl that comes together with seven ingredients.

Old-fashioned sweet pepper pickles brined overnight, then simmered in spiced sugar-vinegar syrup with cloves, cinnamon, mace, and ginger. A canning-jar staple from the heritage pantry.

Fruit cocktail bars with coconut, maraschino cherries, and a soft cake-like crumb. A vintage pantry-friendly bar cookie made with canned fruit cocktail syrup in the batter.

Southwestern pasta sauce with sherry-sauteed garlic and shallots, sun-dried and fresh tomatoes, jalapenos, and fresh herbs. No oil, no cream, just bright pantry flavors over your favorite noodles.

One-pot egg noodles cooked in golden onion soup broth and tossed with garlic bread crumbs, parsley, and parmesan. A pantry-friendly Italian-style pasta ready in 30 minutes.

Spiced sweet and sour pickled carrots canned in a vinegar-sugar syrup with mixed pickling spices. Old-fashioned pantry preserves that brighten up any cold meat or cheese plate.

Fudgy chocolate syrup sheet cake with five pantry ingredients and one bowl. A simple vintage base ready for mint buttercream and chocolate glaze to make Andes-style dessert squares.

Herbal vinegars infuse red wine vinegar with garlic, basil, rosemary, marjoram and dried chiles. Two large-batch blends (Southwest and Chef's Blend) for gift bottles, dressings and pantry seasoning.

Dry-roasted cumin seeds: whole cumin seeds toasted in a hot dry pan until deep brown and intensely fragrant. The Indian pantry foundation for finishing curries, raitas, and chaat.

Jumbles are old-fashioned filled sandwich cookies, two rolled rounds enclosing a smear of grape jelly with three peek-a-boo windows cut into the top. Vintage pantry treat.