By Melissa Norris | Breakfast , Dessert , Recipes
Got pop-tart lovers in your house? These homemade pop tarts from scratch are 110% better than store-bought, with flaky melt-in-your-mouth crust and delicious fruit filling. I gotta tell you, I’ve never been a huge fan of pop-tarts. I’ve always thought they tasted like cardboard with frosting thrown on top (don’t hate me if you’re a […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Bread , Breakfast , Dessert , Recipes
This sourdough chocolate bread tastes like a fudgy brownie and cake combined, deliciously moist with depths of chocolate in every bite. The fermentation process gives the bread a great flavor depth heightening the chocolate with the perfect balance of sweet that had my kids devouring it one day, you might want to double the recipe! […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Dessert , Recipes
A delicious fried donut recipe made traditionally without yeast, that’s so good you don’t need to cover it up with frosting! This easy donut recipe is about as old-fashioned as you can get and high on flavor. This fried donut recipe hails from the Little House Cookbook. This is our second recipe in our Cooking […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Dessert , Recipes
This old-fashioned molasses cookie recipe is the perfect holiday cookie, especially if you’re after down-home simple recipes that Great-Grandma would have baked. You can almost hear the harness and bells jingling as you pull these from the oven. They have just the right amount of spice paired perfectly with the molasses. I’ve used all […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Dessert , Healthy Snacks , Recipes
Old fashioned popcorn balls, specifically molasses popcorn balls are the perfect winter and holiday treat. In the winter months, the pioneers would spend more time indoors, near their fire. Snacks would include things like fresh fruit from their cellar, or fresh popped popcorn, for a fun evening treat.The pioneers were never wasteful and leftover popcorn […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Dessert , Recipes , Vintage
Learn how to make a pumpkin roll from scratch with this recipe straight from Grandma’s kitchen and made with fresh pumpkin puree. This is an easy pumpkin roll recipe with cream cheese filling that brings you the marriage of a cheese cake with pumpkin spice… aka, the best thing you’ve ever had. No joke! My […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Dessert , Recipes
Vinegar pie is about as old-fashioned as you can get, it hails from the pioneer days and early settlers when they wanted a sweet treat and no fruit or other pie filling makings were available. This also has a relative shorter baking time than compared to apple pies, making it easier for a homestead cook […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Dessert , Recipes
An old-fashioned blueberry pudding recipe with a rosewater sauce straight from Almanzo’s Ma’s kitchen and the Little House Cookbook. Are you loving this series as much as I am? When early pioneers found fresh fruit, they collected and used as much as they could. Waste not, want not was their mantra. In the Mid-West, blueberries […]
Read MoreBy Andrea Sabean | Dessert , Recipes , Vintage
My grandmother didn’t have much of a sweet tooth, but she loved to make banana cake. Quite often when we went to visit she would have a pan of banana cake, slathered in maple frosting, waiting in the kitchen. Then I discovered this handwritten recipe for banana cake among my great-grandmother’s recipes. It seems a […]
Read MoreBy Andrea Sabean | Dessert , Recipes , Vintage
Traditional jam roly-poly recipe is a wonderful holiday recipe, but it’s also frugal! I have a thing for old-fashioned from-scratch cooking and recipes. Especially ones that use up some of our homemade preserves. You can showcase and change up the flavor by using seasonal jams and fruit butters. Here is another budget-friendly, easy-to-make dessert recipe […]
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