Homemade Old School Pancakes

Pancakes what a great way to start any day. Winter, Spring Summer or Fall nothing beats a good plate of pancakes. As most of you know my Vintage Cookbook are vast. This one is special as it gives us many recipes from the once popular book Balancing your meals in a Jiffy!

This would also be an exceptional plate of yummy to slather our Gourmet Jam on! It is easy and did you know you can freeze left over batter for later or even better make them and freeze the pancakes whole in the freezer for a quick breakfast.

Lets get started I could go on forever.



Ingredients

1 cup sour cream

7 tablespoons all-purpose Flour

2 tablespoons Sugar

1 teaspoon Baking Soda

1/2 teaspoon Salt

2 whole large eggs

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

** Butter, for frying and serving

Warm Syrup or Jam





Start by mixing your batter everything on the list. The only thing I do and it is actually in their recipe is sift my flour but I do this with anything using flour. A good batter for pancakes or waffles always bubbles.






Heat up your skillet and pop that batter in. Any size small dollar pancakes or regular size. Once you see bubbles on the top of the pancakes flip them over. Not sure if they are ready to flip? Just pull up on the side then flip.

These pancakes are just beautiful.

And there you go how easy was that. Unlike your box brand mix these pancakes are thick and dense. You many need extra butter and syrup!

Walnut Cinnamon Coffee Cake

This is yet another great recipe from our old school cook book.

So the other day I had my Tuesday book Study and decided to make a coffee cake. Often I go to the good ole' pantry for a book and here is what we came up with out of one of our Pillsbury Family Cookbook.




Yes I tweaked it to make it a bit more exciting. I made a center layer not all the topping is on the top. I had to double the filling but all in all yummy and with some good hot coffee,tea or milk.

Walnut -Cinnamon Coffee Cake

 Ingredients

¼ cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
2 cps flour
1 ½ baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup milk

Preparation

In a mixing bowl, cream shortening and sugar







Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition
Add vanilla extract








Combine the flour, baking powder and salt
(I always sift the dry ingredients into a separate bowl prior to adding)


Now add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk







Put half of your mixture into a well greased 9" square baking pan.













I topped the first layer with a dash of cinnamon see the picture.









Now for the Topping  

Topping & Center

½ cup flour
¼ cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
3 tbs chopped walnuts




In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar and cinnamon this will be for the center and top

Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs, stir in nuts








Put half your crumble on top of the layer in the baking pan, now add the rest of the creamed mixture and top with the rest of the topping





Bake at 350 degrees F for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean


Cool on a wire rack.

Chorizo & Spinach Quiche

First the thing that gives me a bit of a giggle is when I Google other Quiche's and see "Crust-less" Quiche well people Quiche is crust-less here is a quick what is a Quiche Vs Frittata definition . Enough of that on to our recipe. I have made quiche so many times when I have left over's and need a quick dinner. The beauty of this is the next day it is so easy to cut and serve.

Ingredients

1/2 lb. bulk Chorizo Sausage
4 scallion onions chopped
2 tbsp. of Olive Oil ( or any other mild flavor olive oil )
1/2 lb. cooked and squeezed spinach finely chopped
1 cup of fresh chopped parsley
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp  pepper
1 cup mild Cheddar cheese
1 1/2 tbsp. of sifted flour
3 eggs beaten
1/4 cup of heavy cream

Fully cook the sausage with the oil, salt and pepper.
Drain the sausage and set aside.



Chop the spinach and then add it to the sausage.


Add the parsley and salt and pepper. Let the sausage/spinach mixture cool slightly so you do not cook the egg mixture when you mix it together.

Mix the eggs with the flour and the cream using a whisk. Now add the meat mixture until well combined. Last thing to add is the cheese mix everything well and pop it into a warm oven.

Bake at 375 for 35/40 minutes. 

What a happy helper I have tonight. That is Mrs. Jassem my Daughter-in-love.