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Canadian Recipes


Canada is a country of many regions, and the cuisine of Canada very much reflects this fact. Each region of the country has its own unique dishes and flavors.

As might expected, given the country's history, Canadian cuisine has been greatly influenced by both British cuisine and French cuisine. Canada has a long southern border with the United States, so it should be no surprise to find influences from United States cuisine too. Additionally, there are dishes inspired by German cuisine, as well as eastern European and Scandinavian influences, especially in the West of the country, and Canada's Chinese community have brought their own dishes too. Finally, Canada's earliest inhabitants, Inuit and First Nations people, also have their own dishes and culinary traditions.

Some popular Canadian foods include:
  • Poutine - One of Canada's most famous dishes. Poutine originated in the French Canadian kitchens of from Québec, but has become popular throughout the country. Poutine is simply French fries topped with cheese curds and covered with gravy.

  • Lumberjack's breakfast - A traditional Canadian breakfast containing eggs, ham, bacon, sausage and pancakes.

  • Pâté chinois - A French Canadian dish somewhat similar to Cottage pie: a layer of ground beef (usually mixed with chopped onions and peppers), covered with a layer of corn (a mix of whole kernel and creamed corn is usually used) and then covered with a layer of mashed potatoes. The dish may be sprinkled with paprika, and is often served accompanied with pickled beets. The name of the dish means "Chinese pie", and there are various as to the origin of this name, the most common being that Chinese cooks serving railroad workers were taught how to make the dish.

  • Montreal bagels - Montreal bagels are the Canadian version of bagels. These bagels are prepared by boiling in honey-sweetened water and then cooked in a wood-fired oven. The bagels commonly come into two varieties: black-seed (sprinkled with poppy seeds) or white-seed (sprinkled with sesame seeds).

    Montreal bagels

  • TourtiLiègere - A traditional meat pie from Québec made using ground pork, beef, veal or even game, and sometimes also containing potatoes. These pies are particular popular during the Christmas season.

  • Oreilles de crisse - Deep-fried pork jowls served with maple syrup.

  • Fish and brewis - A traditional meal from Newfoundland, made using salted cod and hardtack (a savory cracker-like biscuit). Both the main ingredients are soaked over night (to remove salt from the cod, and soften both cod and hardtack) and then boiled separately before being put together. Scrunchions (pork rind) or butter with chopped onions and flower, is then drizzled over the mixture.

  • Jigg's dinner - Another traditional meal of Newfoundland: salt beef, cabbage, and potatoes, as well as, optionally carrots and turnips. Traditionally jigg's dinner is served with pease pudding (a paste made from peas).

  • Toutin - A Newfoundland pancake-like dish. dough fried in fat.

  • Flipper pie - Seal flipper in a pie.

  • Ginger beef - This Chinese-inspired dish has become popular in western Canada. Strips of beef are deep-fried and coated with a sweet sauce (ginger is one of the ingredients in the sauce).

  • Nanaimo bar - A traditional Canadian dessert consisting of three layers, from bottom to top: a crumb layer (made using coconut, nut and wafer crumbs), a layer of vanilla custard, and a layer of chocolate.

  • Butter tarts - A dessert made from butter, sugar and eggs in a pastry shell. Butterscotch, chocolate chips, coconut or dates may optionally be added.

  • Figgy duff - A boiled dessert from Newfoundland. Figgy duff is a mixture o of butter, sugar, eggs and raisins, all boiled togetherin a bag.
Here are some recipe books and cookbooks for Canadian food:

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The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook: 350 Inspired Recipes from Elizabeth Baird and the Kitchen Canadians Trust Most

By Elizabeth Baird

Random House Canada
Released: 2004-03-09
Paperback (416 pages)

The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook: 350 Inspired Recipes from Elizabeth Baird and the Kitchen Canadians Trust Most
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More than twenty-five years of cooking expertise perfected in the unique Canadian Living Test Kitchen and printed in the food pages of Canadian Living magazine are distilled in this magnificent and completely new cookbook. The Canadian Living Test Kitchen guarantee -- “Tested till perfect” -- has assured a loyal following among cooks who know that Canadian Living Test Kitchen recipes guarantee success. Beautifully produced with a 2-colour interior and 2 eight-page photo inserts, the book contains more than 350 recipes, including regional specialties, dishes from our heritage communities, and fresh takes on modern classics such as sushi, chocolate fondue and pasta. Experienced cooks will enjoy the challenge of new inspirations such as Thai curries, pot stickers, grilled quail and chocolate confections. With an emphasis on eating for health, as well as nutritional analyses and advice, tips on cookware, food shopping and storage, and much more, The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook has everything any home cook will need. It is a guarantee of good food and an investment in good taste and good health.

• Over 350 Canadian Living “tested till perfect” recipes
• Information on choosing and storing fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry and fish
• Find how to select the right cooking equipment for your kitchen
• Tips on shopping, storage and ingredient substitutions
• Glossary of essential cooking and baking terms
• Advice on how to use slow cookers, bread machines and food processors
• Page-top symbols that pinpoint fast, make-ahead, freezable, budget-wise and Canadian Living classic recipes
• Streamlined recipes for easy preparation and clean-up
• Complete nutritional analysis for each recipe
• Cover the basics and challenges experienced cooks
• Highlights regional specialties and ingredients, dishes from our heritage communities and great cooks across the country

A sampling of delicious recipes:
Curried Lamb Phyllo Triangles
Baked Brie with Strawberry Mint Topping
Baby Spinach and Goat Cheese Salad
Red Barn Corn and Bean Salad
Perfect Roast Chicken
Salmon Cakes
Grilled Portobello Burgers
Old-fashioned Beef Stew
Luscious Mushroom Lasagna
Lemon Sponge Pudding
Chocolate Raspberry Ice-Cream Cake
Saskatoon Berry Pie
Apple Pie Muffins
Country Seed Bread
Pear and Apricot Conserve
Spicy Thai Shrimp and Noodle Soup
Asparagus Miso Soup
Glazed Sea Bass with Red Curry Sauce
Smoky Tex-Mex Rib

Apples, Peaches and Pears: Great Canadian Recipes

By Elizabeth Baird

Lorimer
Released: 2002-08-26
Paperback (96 pages)

Apples, Peaches and Pears: Great Canadian Recipes
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This classic, award-winning cookbook offers an array of recipes, from the traditional to the inventive and unusual, for three of Canada's favourite summer fruits.

Apples, Peaches & Pears features 125 recipes for a remarkable range of dishes including cakes, pies, puddings, salads, preserves and pickles. Along with the best traditional recipes--apple pie, peach ice cream, oven-baked pears--there are tempting new recipes--cranberry nut apple pie, baked peaches with almond slivers, and peach and red pepper relish, to name a few.

Incorporating treasured family recipes gathered from across the country and extensively tested, Apples, Peaches & Pears is a favourite collection with cooks across Canada.

After a tough international competition, Apples, Peaches & Pears received a 2002 World Gourmand Cookbook Award as an ingredient cookbook.

Secret Recipes from a Canadian Fishing Guide

By Darryl Choronzey

Krause Publications
Paperback (164 pages)

Secret Recipes from a Canadian Fishing Guide
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Canadian guide Darryl Choronzey shares more than 200 of his secret recipes. The recipes are divided into fish species and include flavorful ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions. Each chapter opens with a brief description of the fish and its value as table fare. Additional chapters on smoking, pickling, and canning fish are also provided. 85 illustrations.

Canadian Living: The Barbecue Collection: The Best Barbecue Recipes from Our Kitchen to Your Backyard

By Andrew Chase

Transcontinental
Released: 2010-04-20
Paperback (552 pages)

Canadian Living: The Barbecue Collection: The Best Barbecue Recipes from Our Kitchen to Your Backyard
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A comprehensive collection of over 350 recipes for the grill with a generous handful of favourite barbecue accompaniments, The Canadian Living Barbecue Collection remains true to the trusted reliability of the “Tested until Perfect” spirit of the magazine’s Test Kitchen while pushing the envelope for contemporary taste and style. Over 100 of the recipes are new to the pages of Canadian Living magazine, and along with the over-200 best barbecue recipes from the last decade of the magazine, they are carefully selected to fulfil the needs of home cooks, from everyday cooking to entertaining, and to fully represent the inventive and multicultural palate of modern Canadian cuisine.

The Canadian Living Barbecue Collection covers the whole range of backyard and deck grilling — from chicken to quail, beef to lamb, pickerel to mackerel, shrimp to octopus, corn on the cob to pizza. Recipes cover the simple and straightforward to those that might challenge the gourmet cook, but most importantly, all the recipes were chosen first and foremost for their deliciousness.

Ogilvies Book for a Cook: Old Canadian Recipes

Creative Cookbooks
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Ogilvies Book for a Cook: Old Canadian Recipes
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A quote from "Ogilvies Book for a Cook" (originally published in 1905) holds true today: "Bad bread can be made from good flour, just as bad flour can be made from good wheat; but good bread cannot be made from bad flour, or good flour from bad wheat."

Art's Old Canadian Recipes

By Arthur R. Thornton

Tate Publishing
Released: 2009-10-13
Kindle Edition (156 pages)

Art s Old Canadian Recipes
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Coming from a very small town in Northern Ontario, Canada, and coming from a very hard-working and poor family, I learned many wonderful things and most were in the kitchen beside both my parents. Some years later my wife and I were offered a great opportunity to operate and manage a remote fly in hunting and fishing camp on the English River in Northern Ontario, Canada, where we still managed enough time to meet and talk to other people who worked and lived on the river, trappers, miners, loggers and native fishing guides who shard with us some of their great old recipes. But it wasn't until many years later after both my parents passed on that I discovered the greatest treasures of all, their old recipes. We have all but forgotten the great smells and tastes that came from those kitchens, but with a little time and effort your whole family can enjoy these safe and great-tasting foods again.

The Christmas Cookbook: Great Canadian Recipes

By Rose Murray

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Every day a feast: Over 360 delicious, old-time, special-occasion recipes from Canadian country kitchens

By Muriel Breckenridge

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Canadian Mennonite Cookbook: With Recipes in Metric and Imp

By Rita Kaether

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