Found this tucked inside my great-grandmother’s old cookbook and my husband said it reminded him of his childhood. Now he requests it every month.

This oven baked 6-ingredient retro salmon loaf is exactly the kind of recipe you’d expect to find handwritten on a stained index card in a great-grandmother’s cookbook. It’s budget-friendly, pantry-based, and leans heavily on canned salmon, eggs, and crackers—the staples that fed a lot of Midwestern families in the 1950s and 60s. The texture is tender and moist inside with a golden, lightly crusty top, flecked with herbs from a simple dried seasoning blend. My husband tells me it tastes like the salmon loaf his mom made on Fridays when he was a kid, and now it’s one of those comfort dishes he asks for on repeat. If you’re craving something nostalgic that comes together with minimal fuss, this is it.