My parents have those white dishes with the green flowers. After 50 years, they had fewer than what they started with. A few years ago I found a stack of them at a thrift store for about $20 and scooped them up. Now they have a full set.
Ahhh, margarine, in the 70s they started attacking cholesterol thinking it contributed to clogged arteries, stroke and heart attack. So touted margarine as healthier. Bit by the 2000s decided hydrogenated oils were worse and margarine was close to plastic. 😢 I love that type of muffin and it is low sugar so now is on trend🎉 Thanks Anna❤
Hey sweetie!! I made your broccoli corn bake and added some chicken and cheese and oh my goodness!!! It’s delicious!!!! I brought it to work and my crew loved it!!!!!!❤❤❤❤
Am home our special Sunday breakfast was Cinnamon pancakes with fruit, hashbrowns, and grilled ham steaks. At my grandparents it was biscuits and gravy, homemade jam, bacon and irish potatoes. The goal every Sunday was to get a plate at both places 😂
I used to work at a place where they served pancakes with oats in the batter, and an option for serving them was applesauce and a dollop of lightly sweetened yogurt. Delicious.
Wow, I got excited when I saw the size of that cookbook! I knew it was a Nitty Gritty. My mom used to collect that whole series, lots of fond memories. I don't remember this one, but that doesn't mean she didn't have it, lol.
Anna! I found you fairly recently and LOVE your videos! Im 68 and know a lot of your cookbooks because both my mom and I love cookbooks and have or had many of them. I've watched tons of your old videos and am happy I seem to finally be getting to your new ones. May I say your critics are fools and you should ignore them! ❤
I have the Fisherman’s Wharf cookbook, love it! I bought it when we knew my parents were moving us from California to Indiana when I was 15. A cookbook I truly treasure! Probably my first cookbook I bought, since I was 15. I love liver. After my grandmother died I learned she made me liver and onions because she knew I loved it but she hated it. What a wonderful grandmother!
We were a coffee, toast and cereal family. Pancakes or Waffles, bacon and eggs were dinner fare, except for Christmas day, when my dad pulled out all the stops and we had pancakes and all other breakfast food including a lovely yeast dough coffee cake ring with candied fruit lovingly delivered by my dad's favorite secretary and her husband (he and my dad taught at the same school). The last time we enjoyed that coffee cake was when they made it and brought it to our grieving family when dad died.
First with the likes! I love cookbooks from this time. They make it seem like cooking for men or men cooking is an anomaly. I’m Canadian, i’m almost positive that his cooking show appeared in the US as well, but hello Graham Kerr anyone. The Galloping Gourmet? You still need your own cooking show I would love nothing more than to see you on Food Network with an expanded version of cooking from different decades. ❤❤❤
You could make an entire episode on fondue! I just love fondueand that cookbook looks very exciting ❤I am very jealous of your cookbook collection by the way 😅(jealous on the good way of course!)
My grandmother used to make what she called apple syrup, which was basically half apple juice, concentrate and half maple syrup, heated up on the stove until it melded together and then served over waffles, usually or pancakes. I love this little vlog that you've made. I wish you would make more beverages from the old cookbooks. Non alcoholic Mostly. Sending you much love and appreciation, Jamie from Sisters, Oregon.
Since you seemed to like the texture and savory notes in the pancakes- have you tried cornmeal pancakes? I tried them from my 70s Betty Crocker cookbook and LOVE them!
I LOVE the illustrations. I also love your observation about seeing how times change through cookbooks. That is interesting. It be interesting to have a video where you share your observations about how times have changed.
When I was little (in the late '60s-early '70s), my Nana would make Sunday breakfast for us. She made fresh-squeezed orange juice, and soft-boiled eggs served in adorable little egg cups. We'd have buttery toast points to dip in the egg yolk. It was a lovely change from the Frosted Flakes and Cocoa Puffs we ate on regular mornings.
18:07 They’re probably “manly size” lines. 😂 I love the illustrations, too. I like my pancakes topped with more butter than syrup as well, especially if I eat them in the morning. Love your channel and recipe selections!
My sweet Momma made amazing Swedish pancakes! My Dad was a Swede and I think she took this on to please him, but my brothers and I were the biggest fans I think!❤
Love breakfast! Seriously can eat it any time of day. Its actually one of the only food items my hubby and i agree on lol So much so that our wedding was a brunch wedding 😊
Hi Anna! I'm going to make all of them next Sunday! I love a sweet and savory breakfast! Having them all at the same time would be great when you have people over so you have a variety. The fact that they are easy to make is a definite plus! Thank you again! Have a blessed week!
These were great as breakfast is always the same things over and over. The muffins looked yummy! The Scottish pancakes I must try, they looked perfect when you made them! My husband and I sit and wait after your first bite for your … mmm, MMMM! that second Mmmmm is always the telling sign! ❤
I like to add a ripe banana to the Scottish pancake recipe, and use powdered buttermilk (since i never had buttermilk in the fridge). My family really liked them. Thank you for your fun videos! I enjoy them so much! I appreciate all the thought, research, and time involved.
Our family always used cinnamon sugar instead of syrup with pancakes and waffles. To this day this is how I prefer to eat them. 😊 I found you about a year ago and binged all your old videos pretty quickly. Now I look forward to your new videos every Sunday. Thanks for sharing your collection and taking us along on your journey as you cook the books!
Hooray! These were so great, AND I made the Scottish pancakes for lunch along with you! Once you started making them I’m like “pause - make these!” And they were DELICIOUS! Oh I’ve been jonesin’ for pancakes and maple syrup! So fun and what a cool cookbook! Thank you, Anna! 😌✨
Read through all of the comments. Fun to do. Also searching for whatever others call cooking an egg in the center of a piece of bread. My husband calls it “egg in a hole” and I’ve heard many others but my favorite will always be what my dad called it and I’ve eaten for over 60 years. And that is “huckleberry on a shingle”. Very sentimental for me.
Kidney stroganoff?? With all the foods to eat in the world, somebody would actually make kidney stroganoff? For breakfast? 😬😂. Loved all these recipes, and the pancake recipe looked right up my alley. I’m a pancakes with butter kind of gal, too. Thanks Anna!
Good morning, Anna! I just love your videos and always look forward to a new one on Monday mornings. Those muffins literally had my mouth watering and I'm going to make them for breakfast tomorrow! I collect vintage cookbooks also and have a dessert one from the late 1930's. Also love seeing all the beautiful Pyrex bowls and Corelle (I think that's what the green-rimmed plates are called) in your collection. I have some from Mom's collection. 🌻💓
I definitely love the eggie in a basket. I've been making that recipe since I was about 8 years old. And I love it to this day. I've never tried it with bacon. So I'm definitely going to do that. Love watching your channel and I've been watching it for quite some time. Thank you so much for sharing all these fabulous recipes with us.
In my childhood, muffins were FOOD, not dessert. I loathe what is considered a muffin today. Your blueberry muffin recipe is the recipe that my mother used, as I remembered the 2 tbsp of sugar..
If you ever heard of The Tightwad Gazette, it has a section that explains how to create your own muffin recipe. Maybe toasting the side of the bread before putting it on the bacon and cutting the bacon in half make a square with the bacon place the bread on the bacon and place the egg in the hole and cook as usual. I think it would make an interesting presentation 😊
We did pancakes on the weekends. You might get a flat cast iron pan for pancakes, grilled cheese, quesadillas. Mine is about 10 inches. Love the blueberry muffins esp since they were not like cupcakes.
I remember that “Fisherman’s Wharf Cookbook” from way back when. Don’t remember what happened to it, but I do remember the salad dressing recipe to put on a seafood salad. The muffin recipe you made is the way I make my blueberry muffins, but I add some grated lemon rind to the dry ingredients. I will have to try the egg basket recipe, looks yummy!
After my brother and I left home years ago, my folks always tried to have a monthly “brinner” where my mom would make her pancakes (from that classic Betty Crocker Cookbook from 1964), a fruit salad, and eggs and bacon. Since I now live in Cleveland, I only visit home once a year, but we ramp up brinner to once a week while I’m there ❤
Anna I've been trying so many of your recipes with first the pot pie from the other video and now I went to the store and bought blueberries 😊 when I wasn't planning on making blueberry muffins.
I’m officially old. I remember that cookbook and the whole Nitty Gritty Productions thing. I so recognized that book that I believe I gifted my old boyfriend or one of my guy friends that book when they moved out of their parents house after college. I guess we thought boys would starve out on their own.
All delightful recipes. My family still uses my grandmother’s recipe for blueberry muffins (she was born in the 1800’s) and it is definitely a smaller muffin than you would expect nowadays. I usually make a blueberry “cake” in an 8x8 pan out of the batter because I am lazy and don’t like to fuss with muffin tins, but the flavor is excellent. On Sundays when my two sisters, my mom and I were at Mass, my Dad would prepare Sunday breakfast. We often stopped at the local donut shop and got jelly donuts to go with the scrambled eggs and scotch ham that my dad had prepared. Can’t find scotch ham anymore, but I loved it better than any other breakfast meat. I was born in the early 50’s.
I didn't realize Nitty Gritty cookbooks were a Thing. I have The Mexican Cookbook which I bought in probably 1974 when Mexican food was considered pretty exotic!
Hi Anna. I love Nitty Gritty books. I have Sunday Breakfast ,Quiche & Souffle, The Ground Beef Cookbook, Cast Iron Cookbook, and Soups & Stews, which is a 2 in1 cookbook. If you want to make either soup or stew, you flip over the book as these recipes are placed upside down. I really want to find more at our local used bookstore. Great vid as always.
I love this episode! Years ago I got rid of my Nitty Gritty cookbooks as they made my bookshelf looks so unorganized because of their shape. Regretting it now! Taking time to cook a rounded breakfast is a special treat so I think you did it justice. I love the recipes found in Bed and Breakfast cookbooks from the 70s and 80s because they are so tasty. Thanks for the good review of these books. (Edit:spelling)
My grandma called them nest eggs which is so much easier to say! I think the butter would be better, too. Btw, she had her 100th birthday party last week! She looks almost the same as my childhood, she just keeps getting shorter. I don't remember her making breakfast much. She used to feed me lots of toast with a layer of brown sugar that should have been illegal. The nest eggs were probably healthier! She also always seasoned them with Lawry's Seasoned Salt. My favorite part was always the little round fried toast. It's one of my big nostalgia meals.
Yes! Muffins were smaller and healthier years ago. We made an oatmeal muffin, a bran muffin, blueberry muffins and of course French Breakfast Puffs when I lived at home in the 1970's. Muffins are enormous now and very sweet and oily. I'm going to try your blueberry muffin recipe, it looks right up my ally. And I bet they didnt leave a grease stain like muffins do now.
I have a nitty gritty cookbook Healthy snacks for kids 1983 edition. It has a recipe I still use until this day. Mouse traps, a cheddar cheese cookie. I see lots of 5 or 10 different books on eBay all the time.
lol disclaimer idk about this recipe but muffins in general are good! I always watch this after lunch but your videos make me hungry still! You have a BLUE twist whisk?? so cool! We got the green one. I agree, the illustrations are so fun to look at, and I love that style!
Another excellent video. Can’t wait to try the muffin recipe. I much prefer the bread recipes to the ones they serve now. It’s like looking for a muffin under sugar mountain.
People either love liver & onions or they hate it🤢 I happen to love it😁 My kids hated it but I’m an empty nester now and can cook what I like 😂 All the dishes you prepared look wonderful…especially the pancakes 🤗😃 I’m a less syrup, more butter kinda girl too☺️😁
A squarish flat gridle pan is a must have for pancakes. A big 2 burner gridle is even better. Never made "silver dollar" pancakes. I usually put atleast dessert plate size ones. Liking the funky cookbooks very cool. Early 60s cookbooks are hit and miss. Found one for dinner parties that assumed the user knew unexplained techniques. Just FYI.
I’m surprised they didn’t tell you to toss the blueberries with a bit of flour. I’ve never seen muffin batter so thick! My grandma always said to crack each egg individually into a separate bowl before adding it to the batter, in case there was a spot of blood in the yolk. It used to happen occasionally when I was young but haven’t seen it happen for several years.
My Great-Grandparents hailed from Scotland and my late Mom said HER Mom cooked with a lot of Oats and Barley as she was growing up. I loved those pancakes on that very ‘70’s Corelle plate! I last had homemade Blueberry Muffins many years ago made by a Great - Aunt. I remember them being as you described, not cupcake- like. I might need to try these to see if they are like Auntie Margaret’s!
Sounds like a Dr. Kellogg's thing, Better Breakfast Month. I am not a breakfast person. I have a bulletproof coffee about 5-ish AM, and don't need much til 10:30-ish, 11. Blueberry muffins need no excuse. And your guests are lucky duckies! I think this will work in my dutch oven stove top experiments. Yes, I have been using a dutch oven on the stovetop to do oven things. Best things so far have been cornbread, lasagna and crescent rolls. Why? Because I have little space in my condo kitchen. So, I can't buy a ton of small appliances. If these work in your oven, your muffins will be next. THAT IS BEAUTIFUL. Ah, glorified toad-in-the-hole! GREAT JOB! A little variety never hurts when it comes to breakfast. Grated cheese would be a good add-in, too. I have never had Scottish pancakes. The cookbook authors might call it that because allegedly Scots are big on oats. Like Scotch eggs, probably not Scottish at all. Enjoyed watching!!! Thank you!!! See you next week.🎉
In my recipe book collection I have two recipes that are called "Scottish Pancakes", or, more precisely, "Scotch Pancakes". Neither use oats. One is a pretty bog basic pancake recipe that says they're also called "pikelets" (a term that's apparently way more common in Australia). The other uses yeast and says it's the Scottish version of a Welsh "crempog".
My boyfriend wanted me to write that he puts flax seeds in his pancakes and they taste great, but he is a less butter more syrup kind of guy so I don't think he can tell..lol
What’s great about the pancakes is the ingredients - they’re super common to have around the house. Even if you don’t have buttermilk, chances are you have milk and a splash of vinegar.
I’d smear butter all over the blueberry muffins! Yummy!
My parents have those white dishes with the green flowers. After 50 years, they had fewer than what they started with. A few years ago I found a stack of them at a thrift store for about $20 and scooped them up. Now they have a full set.
Those Scottish pancakes also look like they would be great with blueberries in them
Ahhh, margarine, in the 70s they started attacking cholesterol thinking it contributed to clogged arteries, stroke and heart attack. So touted margarine as healthier. Bit by the 2000s decided hydrogenated oils were worse and margarine was close to plastic. 😢 I love that type of muffin and it is low sugar so now is on trend🎉 Thanks Anna❤
Hey sweetie!! I made your broccoli corn bake and added some chicken and cheese and oh my goodness!!! It’s delicious!!!! I brought it to work and my crew loved it!!!!!!❤❤❤❤
Nothing like weekend breakfast as a kid! Omlets, home fries, pancakes, bacon! Yum! Peanut butter and bacon sandwiches!
Am home our special Sunday breakfast was Cinnamon pancakes with fruit, hashbrowns, and grilled ham steaks. At my grandparents it was biscuits and gravy, homemade jam, bacon and irish potatoes. The goal every Sunday was to get a plate at both places 😂
I used to work at a place where they served pancakes with oats in the batter, and an option for serving them was applesauce and a dollop of lightly sweetened yogurt.
Delicious.
Sounds right up my alley! 😋
Your mention of Butler Pantry brings back fond memories of fun times in Saugatuck. Thanks!
My grandmother made eggs in a basket without bacon and called it a ‘bachelor’s egg.’
I miss Mammy.
Wow, I got excited when I saw the size of that cookbook! I knew it was a Nitty Gritty. My mom used to collect that whole series, lots of fond memories. I don't remember this one, but that doesn't mean she didn't have it, lol.
I just love their books! 😊
Anna! I found you fairly recently and LOVE your videos! Im 68 and know a lot of your cookbooks because both my mom and I love cookbooks and have or had many of them. I've watched tons of your old videos and am happy I seem to finally be getting to your new ones. May I say your critics are fools and you should ignore them! ❤
Thank you for watching and so glad to have you here! ❤
Who would criticize Anna, she is literally the most wholesome UA-cam channel I’ve ever seen?!
We eat a good breakfast every Saturday thanks to my boyfriend and sometimes during the week for dinner. Simple and delicious.
Thanks Anna.
I have the Fisherman’s Wharf cookbook, love it! I bought it when we knew my parents were moving us from California to Indiana when I was 15. A cookbook I truly treasure! Probably my first cookbook I bought, since I was 15. I love liver. After my grandmother died I learned she made me liver and onions because she knew I loved it but she hated it. What a wonderful grandmother!
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I used to make myself French toast every morning for breakfast when I was in high school.
Your blueberry muffins look perfect! I am trying them on Sunday. I love your channel and watch often! ❤
The muffins look so good!
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We were a coffee, toast and cereal family. Pancakes or Waffles, bacon and eggs were dinner fare, except for Christmas day, when my dad pulled out all the stops and we had pancakes and all other breakfast food including a lovely yeast dough coffee cake ring with candied fruit lovingly delivered by my dad's favorite secretary and her husband (he and my dad taught at the same school). The last time we enjoyed that coffee cake was when they made it and brought it to our grieving family when dad died.
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First with the likes! I love cookbooks from this time. They make it seem like cooking for men or men cooking is an anomaly. I’m Canadian, i’m almost positive that his cooking show appeared in the US as well, but hello Graham Kerr anyone. The Galloping Gourmet? You still need your own cooking show I would love nothing more than to see you on Food Network with an expanded version of cooking from different decades. ❤❤❤
But he gave up the wine and turned to Religion.
@@lauren6889 I actually thought of that right after I posted my comment!!!!
Oh yes-Graham Kerr’s show was popular in my house (well, at least for my mom and me; can’t speak for everybody else 😉.) And I’m American 😸.
Indiana US here. We loved Graham Kerr! I learned to make lump-free white sauce from him!
Graham Kerr is 90 and lives in Washington state
You could make an entire episode on fondue! I just love fondueand that cookbook looks very exciting ❤I am very jealous of your cookbook collection by the way 😅(jealous on the good way of course!)
Muffins, originally, were not supposed to be really sweet. I still use older recipes with low sugar. 😊
My grandmother used to make what she called apple syrup, which was basically half apple juice, concentrate and half maple syrup, heated up on the stove until it melded together and then served over waffles, usually or pancakes. I love this little vlog that you've made. I wish you would make more beverages from the old cookbooks. Non alcoholic Mostly. Sending you much love and appreciation, Jamie from Sisters, Oregon.
Since you seemed to like the texture and savory notes in the pancakes- have you tried cornmeal pancakes? I tried them from my 70s Betty Crocker cookbook and LOVE them!
I LOVE the illustrations. I also love your observation about seeing how times change through cookbooks. That is interesting. It be interesting to have a video where you share your observations about how times have changed.
Thank you for this muffin recipe. I will definitely try as I like the low sugar content in it. Yes let the fruit be the star!
Love the older cookbooks - when I go to a thrift shop I always look for them! Thanks for a great channel!!
I'm so glad you enjoy the channel! 💖
You have such a sweet demeanor. Love your videos!
Thank you so much!❤️
When I was little (in the late '60s-early '70s), my Nana would make Sunday breakfast for us. She made fresh-squeezed orange juice, and soft-boiled eggs served in adorable little egg cups. We'd have buttery toast points to dip in the egg yolk. It was a lovely change from the Frosted Flakes and Cocoa Puffs we ate on regular mornings.
18:07 They’re probably “manly size” lines. 😂 I love the illustrations, too. I like my pancakes topped with more butter than syrup as well, especially if I eat them in the morning. Love your channel and recipe selections!
Those oatmeal pancakes sound awesome!
My sweet Momma made amazing Swedish pancakes! My Dad was a Swede and I think she took this on to please him, but my brothers and I were the biggest fans I think!❤
Love breakfast! Seriously can eat it any time of day. Its actually one of the only food items my hubby and i agree on lol So much so that our wedding was a brunch wedding 😊
I made those oatmeal muffins from Betty’s Picture Cookbook. They were so good!
Hi Anna! I'm going to make all of them next Sunday! I love a sweet and savory breakfast! Having them all at the same time would be great when you have people over so you have a variety. The fact that they are easy to make is a definite plus! Thank you again! Have a blessed week!
That eggs in basket recipe sounds great 👍
These were great as breakfast is always the same things over and over. The muffins looked yummy! The Scottish pancakes I must try, they looked perfect when you made them! My husband and I sit and wait after your first bite for your … mmm, MMMM! that second Mmmmm is always the telling sign! ❤
When we were kids, we called those 'bullseye eggs'. 😊
I like to add a ripe banana to the Scottish pancake recipe, and use powdered buttermilk (since i never had buttermilk in the fridge). My family really liked them. Thank you for your fun videos! I enjoy them so much! I appreciate all the thought, research, and time involved.
Our family always used cinnamon sugar instead of syrup with pancakes and waffles. To this day this is how I prefer to eat them. 😊 I found you about a year ago and binged all your old videos pretty quickly. Now I look forward to your new videos every Sunday. Thanks for sharing your collection and taking us along on your journey as you cook the books!
Thanks so much ❤
Egg in a bread slice is sometimes called a "toad in a whole".
Hooray! These were so great, AND I made the Scottish pancakes for lunch along with you!
Once you started making them I’m like “pause - make these!” And they were DELICIOUS! Oh I’ve been jonesin’ for pancakes and maple syrup!
So fun and what a cool cookbook! Thank you, Anna! 😌✨
Those scottish Pancakes looks so good and sound so interesting- never heard of them. I will try them!
Read through all of the comments. Fun to do. Also searching for whatever others call cooking an egg in the center of a piece of bread. My husband calls it “egg in a hole” and I’ve heard many others but my favorite will always be what my dad called it and I’ve eaten for over 60 years. And that is “huckleberry on a shingle”. Very sentimental for me.
Kidney stroganoff?? With all the foods to eat in the world, somebody would actually make kidney stroganoff? For breakfast? 😬😂. Loved all these recipes, and the pancake recipe looked right up my alley. I’m a pancakes with butter kind of gal, too. Thanks Anna!
Good morning, Anna! I just love your videos and always look forward to a new one on Monday mornings.
Those muffins literally had my mouth watering and I'm going to make them for breakfast tomorrow! I collect vintage cookbooks also and have a dessert one from the late 1930's. Also love seeing all the beautiful Pyrex bowls and Corelle (I think that's what the green-rimmed plates are called) in your collection. I have some from Mom's collection. 🌻💓
I definitely love the eggie in a basket. I've been making that recipe since I was about 8 years old. And I love it to this day. I've never tried it with bacon. So I'm definitely going to do that. Love watching your channel and I've been watching it for quite some time. Thank you so much for sharing all these fabulous recipes with us.
In my childhood, muffins were FOOD, not dessert. I loathe what is considered a muffin today. Your blueberry muffin recipe is the recipe that my mother used, as I remembered the 2 tbsp of sugar..
The size of them plus 5# sugar on the tops ! Nothing like the sweet from fruit muffins we ate ! As food never as a snack or dessert.
Breakfast growing was not good but as an adult breakfast always feels so special and like an opportunity to cook something amazing.
i never coat my blueberries in flour i like the crispy bits that develop around the edges 🤗🤗
If you ever heard of The Tightwad Gazette, it has a section that explains how to create your own muffin recipe. Maybe toasting the side of the bread before putting it on the bacon and cutting the bacon in half make a square with the bacon place the bread on the bacon and place the egg in the hole and cook as usual. I think it would make an interesting presentation 😊
I’m a tightwad gazette fan too!!! And so many of her ideas are still so helpful today!
Scottish here 👋🏻 those pancakes look right. Delicious with butter and often eaten cold right out of the packet!
We did pancakes on the weekends. You might get a flat cast iron pan for pancakes, grilled cheese, quesadillas. Mine is about 10 inches. Love the blueberry muffins esp since they were not like cupcakes.
I remember that “Fisherman’s Wharf Cookbook” from way back when. Don’t remember what happened to it, but I do remember the salad dressing recipe to put on a seafood salad. The muffin recipe you made is the way I make my blueberry muffins, but I add some grated lemon rind to the dry ingredients. I will have to try the egg basket recipe, looks yummy!
After my brother and I left home years ago, my folks always tried to have a monthly “brinner” where my mom would make her pancakes (from that classic Betty Crocker Cookbook from 1964), a fruit salad, and eggs and bacon. Since I now live in Cleveland, I only visit home once a year, but we ramp up brinner to once a week while I’m there ❤
if a muffin isn’t craggy it’s not homemade. sure, you can get the store made muffins, but you will question your life choices afterwards 😮
Also adding oatmeal to a classic bread recipe also gives a whole different taste and texrure to a loaf.
Anna I've been trying so many of your recipes with first the pot pie from the other video and now I went to the store and bought blueberries 😊 when I wasn't planning on making blueberry muffins.
I love the less-sweet traditional muffins! That's what a muffin should be.
Oh the fondue! Will you do some fondue ideas sometime?
I’m officially old. I remember that cookbook and the whole Nitty Gritty Productions thing.
I so recognized that book that I believe I gifted my old boyfriend or one of my guy friends that book when they moved out of their parents house after college. I guess we thought boys would starve out on their own.
All delightful recipes. My family still uses my grandmother’s recipe for blueberry muffins (she was born in the 1800’s) and it is definitely a smaller muffin than you would expect nowadays. I usually make a blueberry “cake” in an 8x8 pan out of the batter because I am lazy and don’t like to fuss with muffin tins, but the flavor is excellent. On Sundays when my two sisters, my mom and I were at Mass, my Dad would prepare Sunday breakfast. We often stopped at the local donut shop and got jelly donuts to go with the scrambled eggs and scotch ham that my dad had prepared. Can’t find scotch ham anymore, but I loved it better than any other breakfast meat. I was born in the early 50’s.
The oatmeal pancakes look good 😋
I'm thinking I would top them with a little bit of applesauce and a dash of cinnamon sugar.
I didn't realize Nitty Gritty cookbooks were a Thing. I have The Mexican Cookbook which I bought in probably 1974 when Mexican food was considered pretty exotic!
I love your videos!
Thank you! ❤
Hi Anna. I love Nitty Gritty books. I have Sunday Breakfast ,Quiche & Souffle, The Ground Beef Cookbook, Cast Iron Cookbook, and Soups & Stews, which is a 2 in1 cookbook. If you want to make either soup or stew, you flip over the book as these recipes are placed upside down. I really want to find more at our local used bookstore. Great vid as always.
I love this episode! Years ago I got rid of my Nitty Gritty cookbooks as they made my bookshelf looks so unorganized because of their shape. Regretting it now! Taking time to cook a rounded breakfast is a special treat so I think you did it justice. I love the recipes found in Bed and Breakfast cookbooks from the 70s and 80s because they are so tasty. Thanks for the good review of these books. (Edit:spelling)
Cream of Wheat pancakes are delicious.😋IHOP used to serve them years ago.
My grandma called them nest eggs which is so much easier to say! I think the butter would be better, too. Btw, she had her 100th birthday party last week! She looks almost the same as my childhood, she just keeps getting shorter. I don't remember her making breakfast much. She used to feed me lots of toast with a layer of brown sugar that should have been illegal. The nest eggs were probably healthier! She also always seasoned them with Lawry's Seasoned Salt. My favorite part was always the little round fried toast. It's one of my big nostalgia meals.
Yes! Muffins were smaller and healthier years ago. We made an oatmeal muffin, a bran muffin, blueberry muffins and of course French Breakfast Puffs when I lived at home in the 1970's. Muffins are enormous now and very sweet and oily. I'm going to try your blueberry muffin recipe, it looks right up my ally. And I bet they didnt leave a grease stain like muffins do now.
Any time I see one of those in a collection of for sale cookbooks on eBay or a flea market I always buy the whole bunch.
PANCAKES!!! I'm trying the pancakes. Thank you so much for including the recipes.
I love oatmeal and I love buttermilk pancakes, so I think I have an assignment for my husband 🤭😁
I have a nitty gritty cookbook Healthy snacks for kids 1983 edition. It has a recipe I still use until this day. Mouse traps, a cheddar cheese cookie. I see lots of 5 or 10 different books on eBay all the time.
LOL I was thinking “I’d love prints of those illustrations” and then you said it :)
They’re just so good. 😊
lol disclaimer idk about this recipe but muffins in general are good! I always watch this after lunch but your videos make me hungry still! You have a BLUE twist whisk?? so cool! We got the green one. I agree, the illustrations are so fun to look at, and I love that style!
I picked up another Nitty Gritty cookbook on our trip to NYC! Such great illustrations in that one too.
Breakfast is my favorite meal. Theae recipes all look great. I think the muffins are my favorite.
Another excellent video. Can’t wait to try the muffin recipe. I much prefer the bread recipes to the ones they serve now. It’s like looking for a muffin under sugar mountain.
People either love liver & onions or they hate it🤢
I happen to love it😁
My kids hated it but I’m an empty nester now and can cook what I like 😂
All the dishes you prepared look wonderful…especially the pancakes 🤗😃
I’m a less syrup, more butter kinda girl too☺️😁
A squarish flat gridle pan is a must have for pancakes. A big 2 burner gridle is even better. Never made "silver dollar" pancakes. I usually put atleast dessert plate size ones. Liking the funky cookbooks very cool. Early 60s cookbooks are hit and miss. Found one for dinner parties that assumed the user knew unexplained techniques. Just FYI.
I’m with you… no liver…😂
Those muffins? YUM!!!
They were so good! 😋
My Mom made the egg breakfast for us. She called it Eggs on a Raft. The bacon was on the side. Great video! Definitely trying the pancakes.!
I’m surprised they didn’t tell you to toss the blueberries with a bit of flour.
I’ve never seen muffin batter so thick!
My grandma always said to crack each egg individually into a separate bowl before adding it to the batter, in case there was a spot of blood in the yolk. It used to happen occasionally when I was young but haven’t seen it happen for several years.
I think the red spatula looks like what some people would call a fish spatula?
I've gotta make the pancakes
The Scottish pancakes looked so good. We will be in Scotland in about 3 weeks, I'll look for them on menus when we eat.
You definitely found the key… 1970s and before recipes did use a lesser sugar.
Right, muffins were never meant to be giant cupcakes. Same thing with cornbread, it has so much sugar in it usually it might as well be cake.
My Great-Grandparents hailed from Scotland and my late Mom said HER Mom cooked with a lot of Oats and Barley as she was growing up. I loved those pancakes on that very ‘70’s Corelle plate! I last had homemade Blueberry Muffins many years ago made by a Great - Aunt. I remember them being as you described, not cupcake- like. I might need to try these to see if they are like Auntie Margaret’s!
Love love your program ❤❤❤
I think I need to make the breakfast toast thing!! Well, they all looked good🤗
Sounds like a Dr. Kellogg's thing, Better Breakfast Month. I am not a breakfast person. I have a bulletproof coffee about 5-ish AM, and don't need much til 10:30-ish, 11.
Blueberry muffins need no excuse. And your guests are lucky duckies! I think this will work in my dutch oven stove top experiments. Yes, I have been using a dutch oven on the stovetop to do oven things. Best things so far have been cornbread, lasagna and crescent rolls. Why? Because I have little space in my condo kitchen. So, I can't buy a ton of small appliances. If these work in your oven, your muffins will be next. THAT IS BEAUTIFUL.
Ah, glorified toad-in-the-hole! GREAT JOB! A little variety never hurts when it comes to breakfast. Grated cheese would be a good add-in, too.
I have never had Scottish pancakes. The cookbook authors might call it that because allegedly Scots are big on oats. Like Scotch eggs, probably not Scottish at all.
Enjoyed watching!!! Thank you!!! See you next week.🎉
In my recipe book collection I have two recipes that are called "Scottish Pancakes", or, more precisely, "Scotch Pancakes". Neither use oats. One is a pretty bog basic pancake recipe that says they're also called "pikelets" (a term that's apparently way more common in Australia). The other uses yeast and says it's the Scottish version of a Welsh "crempog".
Love your videos and the recipes ❤
Everything looks really good! I just bought some fresh raspberries and blackberries so I think I'll try the muffin recipe with those
Love your apron! I'm gonna try the muffins, it sounds so good!😋
My boyfriend wanted me to write that he puts flax seeds in his pancakes and they taste great, but he is a less butter more syrup kind of guy so I don't think he can tell..lol
What’s great about the pancakes is the ingredients - they’re super common to have around the house. Even if you don’t have buttermilk, chances are you have milk and a splash of vinegar.