Baku Kitchen! An independent reference of traditional food

Canada

Canada’s food is built around maple-sweetened comfort food blending French, British, and Indigenous traditions with multicultural city fare. Look for Poutine (fries topped with cheese curds and hot gravy; Quebecois late-night classic), Tourtière (spiced pork and beef pie, a Quebecois Christmas tradition) and Butter tart (gooey butter-sugar filling in flaky pastry, sometimes with raisins). Born in rural Quebec in the late 1950s; Warwick’s Le Lutin qui rit and Drummondville’s Le Roy Jucep both claim to have first combined fries, curds and gravy. This atlas has 38 Canada dishes catalogued below, from everyday cooking to food kept for festivals and special occasions.

38 dishes.

  • Ice cider

    Amber dessert cider from apples frozen after harvest, poured chilled with cheese. A wine & spirit recipe from Canada.

  • Jiggs dinner

    Boiled salt beef with cabbage, root vegetables and a cloth-boiled pease pudding. Ready in 30 min prep and 3 hr…

  • Maple taffy

    Hot maple syrup poured on snow, rolled onto a stick. Ready in 10 min prep and 20 min cooking. About…

  • Montreal smoked meat

    Cured spiced brisket piled high on rye with mustard. Ready in 1 hr prep and 10 hr cooking. About 3…

  • Montreal-style bagel

    Wood-fired, sweeter, denser bagel boiled in honey water. Ready in 40 min prep and 20 min cooking. 12 bagels. A…

  • Mustard pickles

    Cucumber, onion and cauliflower in turmeric-yellow mustard vinegar, served with cold meat. Ready in 40 min prep and 30 min…

  • Nanaimo bar

    No-bake layers of chocolate, custard cream, and coconut-crumb base. Ready in 30 min prep and 10 min cooking. 24 squares.…

  • Oka cheese

    Semi-soft washed-rind cow’s cheese, pungent and nutty, from a Quebec village. A cheese & dairy recipe from Canada.

  • Oreilles de crisse

    Salt pork jowl fried until curled and crisp, eaten with maple syrup. Ready in 10 min prep and 20 min…

  • Peameal bacon sandwich

    Cornmeal-rolled back bacon on a bun; Toronto market icon. Ready in 20 min prep and 15 min cooking. 4 sandwiches.…