A few years ago, I purchased these 3 vintage recipe boxes from eBay and I’ve been eager to buy more. I recently moved in to a small, downtown condo and have little room to collect anything. I’m holding off on my urge for now and giving more love to the 3 boxes I already own.

The C.W. Post box did not include any recipes so I’ve used it to store my great-grandmother’s recipe cards. Both the Land O’Lakes and Bisquick box contained a small collection of recipe cards for their products. Growing up in the Midwest, I am familiar with recipes requiring Bisquick and butter :-)

One of my favorite childhood treats is in the Bisquick recipe box. You’ll see them in the following photo — look in the upper left corner … the things that look like muffins are actually ‘French Breakfast Puffs’. These puffs will change your life.

My mother would make the french puffs only once or twice a year, usually around the holidays. She sometimes used the Bisquick recipe but more often would make them from scratch. I couldn’t find the french puff recipe from the Bisquick site, so I guess they’ve done away with it. Thank goodness it’s in my box.

The puffs are essentially basic nutmeg flavored muffin. You roll them in melted butter and then in a cinnamon-sugar mix. The result is a moist, buttery rich french puff. My mouth is watering just thinking of the memories!

French Breakfast Puffs

2 cups Bisquick baking mix
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
1/2 butter, melted
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease 24 miniature muffin cups (or about 12 regular muffin cups). Mix baking mix, 1/4 cup sugar, nutmeg, 2 tablespoons butter, milk, and egg; beat vigorously for 30 seconds. Fill muffin cups about 2/3 full. Bake 10 minutes. Quickly roll in melted butter, then in mixture of 2/3 cup sugar and the cinnamon.

Simple to make and seriously good. I haven’t had these in many years and might just have to whip them up soon.

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Do you have a vintage recipe or recipe box that you cherish? If you’d like to share it on Recovered Recipes, just send me a photo to my email (allen [at] recoveredrecipes [dot] com) and I’ll get it posted for others to see.

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