Vintage Breakfast Recipes

Whether you want a simple breakfast or something quick and easy, these handwritten vintage recipes will help you make a delicious breakfast. From griddle cakes to pancakes, you’ll find these heirloom recipes easy to make and a perfect way to start your day.

Two Cakes for Hungry Cowboys: Vintage Recipes

by Allen Williams on June 10, 2011

So, what exactly to hungry cowboys like to eat when they come in from herding cattle? If this newspaper clipping is to be believed, they like cake! And since the recipe clipping only contains two recipes, I can only assume the third recipe was also for cake.

Cake is a universally delicious treat and either of these easy to make coffee cakes would be welcomed at breakfast (or lunch, or dinner). I am drawn more to the blueberry cake recipe since blueberry season is just a few weeks away.
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Vintage Breakfast Recipes

Silva’s Pancake Recipe

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I love that this recipe was written on a piece of notebook paper from the First National Bank of Muskogee, Oklahoma. It’s an added bit of history to give provenance to the recipe. At first, I was uncertain what this recipe was for and didn’t comprehend the title. I thought it said ‘paw’ cakes … [...]

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Vintage Breakfast Recipes

Cornmeal Griddle Cakes Recipe

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Cornmeal is one of those ingredients which just screams ‘old-fashioned’ to me.  It reminds me of my childhood and stories from my great-grandma on how they would make johnny cakes, hardtack, and griddle cakes. My mother made cornmeal griddle cakes once or twice that I can remember, and I loved them.  Griddle cakes are basically [...]

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Betty Crocker Meatball Pancakes Recipe

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Straight from the kitchen of Betty Crocker comes this recipe for meatball pancakes. Somehow, the thought of combining meatballs and pancakes seems odd and quite wrong. But after reading through the recipe, it doesn’t sound as unappetizing as first thought. In reality, the pancake sounds more like a fluffy omelet as the meat is mixed [...]

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