We enjoyed our month long experience of 1940s Days so much that we decided to have a 1940s style breakfast today with scrambled eggs & spam cooked from dried eggs, homemade syrup – this butterscotch syrup along with Mock Maple Syrup and Oatmeal Griddle Cakes which we enjoyed this syrup served warm. This butterscotch syrup…
Day: 7 July 2025
Mock Maple Syrup from the 1940s
This mock maple syrup from the 1940s is easy to make and has only three ingredients. It actually tastes like maple syrup and reminds me of maple flavored store bought syrups, only so much better! It’s amazing and one of my family’s favorite homemade syrups. It is fantastic on Oatmeal Griddle Cakes or any other…
Oatmeal Griddle Cakes
These oatmeal griddle cakes are fluffy and tender, and are quite filling. I can definitely understand why they were a popular meal during wartime. Griddle cakes, pancakes and the like were prepared as a way to use cheaper flours and meals such as barley, buckwheat and oatmeal which were considered unusable for bread. This was…
