Winning with Master Mix

Sometimes it seems gone are the days of cookbooks. Recipes are constantly online in easy links. So here I remember the Saturdays, & sometimes for Sunday brunches too, when Dad would make our family breakfast. Pancakes & waffles were most often what he made & he’d typically them with an apple mixture which I believe was the recipe for the interior of an apple pie, from the apple pie recipe he used.

Along with these pancakes or waffles we’d have the sausage links, sausage patties, bacon strips, whatever we had on hand in the fridge at the time. Also, as most of use preferred our eggs scrambled, a large patch of scrambled eggs would be prepared; Dad would always change up & make his eggs over easy or sunny side up, even though he liked scrambled too, as he enjoyed most any type of egg. Sometimes we’d poach the eggs; I’d eat them poached on occasion.

Mom & I would get a few slices of pre-wrapped American cheese out of the fridge & make pancake/waffle, sausage patty, cheese sandwiches. We’d take a sausage patty, a slice of the pre-wrapped American cheese, & we’d wedge them between two pancakes, or two quarters of a waffle. Sometimes these would get dipped in maple syrup.

We’d have all of this along with juice & milk. Mom typically had hot tea; Dad typically had & coffee.

Sometimes we’d have old-fashioned buttermilk pancakes from scratch; sometimes we’d have pancakes & waffles from brand mixes. We also had the era of the Master Mix recipe.

Dad happened upon

In it there’s a recipe for Master Mix, which only contains dry ingredients. This recipe became a convenience as we could mix up quite a bit at once, then have it on hand to make for a shorter prep on a bunch of recipes, not just pancakes & waffles. All he’d have to gather would be the wet ingredients necessary for whichever Master Mix based recipe he planned to make: biscuits, shortcake, muffins, to name a few. Master Mix & its dry base also made for a great convenience on various camping trips.

These were our Saturday mornings after cartoons & before we had an electric dishwasher when the kids’ chores included washing the dishes before the day continued.

These were Saturday mornings of days gone by. Cooking from scratch is still the main name of the game; however, non-processed, as well as organic, are definitely important details that I include in my kitchen today.

More recent editions include (in order of oldest to youngest):

I've a feeling each includes a Master Mix recipe.