It’s a truth of home cooking: When it comes to recipes, people are often seeking easy and comforting, not complex and fancy. Fourteen-hour pulled pork, sourdough bread made from homemade starter and gingerbread houses piped with intricate designs — all have a place in the canon, but the NYT Cooking recipes that readers returned to again and again are those that are simple and sustaining.

Here are the top five recipes of 2018, determined by the number of times they were saved on our site. (For the complete list of this year’s 50 most popular recipes, visit nytcooking.com.)