Old-Fashioned Breakfast Menus plus Coffee Cakes, Muffins, and Omelets

Feeling nostalgic? In this cook book, you’ll find a collection of old-fashioned breakfast menus from the 1880s through the 1920s. There are simple menus perfect for whipping up an old-fashioned breakfast (or breakfast for dinner) and more elaborate menus ideal for an old-fashioned brunch party or Sunday breakfast. In addition to the menus, you’ll find 3 sections of antique recipes: one for coffee cakes, one for muffins, and one for omelets. As with all our collections, scattered throughout you’ll find antique ads, pictures, and advice gathered from the antique cookbooks.

1906 Summer Sunday Breakfast Menu
Monarch Cook Book

Sliced Peaches and Cream
Currant Jelly Omelet
Crisp Bacon
Sliced Cucumbers
Moravian Coffee Cake
Coffee

"The young lady who rises early, and in a neat, simple morning dress goes to the kitchen to assist in getting breakfast—or gets it herself, if need be—and afterward cheerfully and smilingly puts the house in order, without leaving her mother to do everything, is worth a dozen parlor beauties who sit languidly on sofa or easy chairs, fanning, fanning; or for a few moments drum on the piano, then take up a book—find no interest in it—and, for want of really healthy exercise, half die from sheer indolence." - Motherly Talks (1883)