The no-sugar-added original recipe for Corn Flakes: bland and crispy

Honey, long pepper, and mushrooms combine for a simple but flavorful dish

One of the best things I’ve made, period. The filling is like concentrated strawberries and the texture is smooth and light, all in a buttery crust

Pie made with hardtack (clack clack) and a potato crust that actually tastes like apple pie

The original deep dish pizza from the 1940s with a bready crust

Caramel-scented, lightly spiced mead made with burnt honey

A simple whiskey cocktail for people who like whiskey as it tastes like slightly sweetened whiskey

Biscuits topped with salt pork milk gravy

Simple yet delicious baked beans with molasses and salt pork

Fire-roasted red deer, smoked goat, and einkorn cakes with fiddlehead ferns make up my version of Ötzi the Iceman’s last meal

Slow-cooked barbecue pork with molasses and a vinegary sauce that could be a precursor to Carolina-style barbecue sauce

WWII scrambled eggs and bacon made from powdered eggs (and real bacon), as it might have been eaten at the last meal before the D-Day landing

Surprisingly good WWII-era lemonade made from powdered lemon juice

Dense, flavorful, boiled-then-baked bread recreated from the tomb of Ramses III

A very simple sauerkraut soup that’s delicious served with German black bread

Complex, delicious banana ice cream with a very fancy banana compote

Super simple chilled pie with lots of zing from the most famous of space foods: Tang

A very rich and creamy alternative to mashed potatoes

Tender lamb cutlets with a delicious and extremely simple lemon-butter sauce

Casserole of potatoes, cream, and parmesan. What’s not to like?