This quick and easy vintage pancakes recipe comes from 1950s Australian Women’s Weekly cookbook.
Fan fact: This vintage recipe was one of the three recipes in the Nestle’s advertisement published in the cookbook.
To make these light and delicious pancakes you will need
4 oz flour
1/4 teaspoon salt …
Vintage Recipes
Usually cakes and desserts take a long time, and a lot of ingredients to cook. But how about we try a recipe from the 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cookbook. This one egg cake, uses simple everyday ingredients to make a light and airy, but delightful, cake. Also the cake takes only about 45 minutes of your…
Usually cheesecakes are baked, but this one only takes a place to melt butter, a place to stream the peach juice and 1 night to settle the pie. This recipe is from about 100 years ago and it was past down from parent to child for at least 3 generations.
Prep time: 25 min …
During WWII rations dictated the need for alterations to traditional recipes. Women of that period went to extraordinary length to stretch, flour for example, beyond one dish. I love WWII recipes, my [currently] absolute favorite ones are WW2 Recipe: The Welsh Cakes, Apple Crumble Pie In A Skillet, and this delicious, filling and easy-to-make WWII Era…
This easy-to-follow antique potato croquettes recipe is from the original Fannie Farmer Entrees cookbook, published in 1896. Farmer’s cookbooks were among the first cookbooks by American authors to become bestsellers.
The potato croquettes are a great side dish that can be served with your favorite dips. Croquettes could also easily be converted into a…
A popover is akin to a tall muffin that, when baked, features a convenient space/hole on its underside, perfect for stuffing and filling. The filling could be sweet, for example your favorite jam, or savory--cream cheese, bacon and grated cheese, roasted veggies and more. In the photo above you see popovers filled with cream cheese. …
By 1939, the United Kingdom was importing more than 20,000,000 tons of food products, including meat, cheese, sugar, and cereal meal. It was one of the principal strategies of the Nazis to attack shipping bound for Britain, restricting British industry and potentially starving the nation into submission.
Usage of rationing during World War II
To…
This version of the Crumble Apple Pie recipe was developed and became popular during World War II. Flour and sugar, among other food supplies were very limited. Women had to stretch these as much as possible to feed their kids. The recipe reduced flour and sugar by nearly 3/4 (!) of the original pre-war era…