Old-Fashioned Comfort Foods
Pancake and waffle syrups: Find creative recipes and topping ideas for pancakes, waffles, and French toast with delicious sauces, jams, and flavored syrups.
This fresh strawberry butter recipe is a quick and easy spread made with fresh dairy butter and strawberry preserves. Serve for breakfast or brunch on toast, pancakes, waffles, or French toast. This is the type of special touch that I would expect to find at a breakfast table at a quaint bed and breakfast inn. It … Read more
Homemade Cinnamon syrup is made with ground cinnamon, vanilla, and brown sugar and cooked into a sweet syrup. Serve this homemade pancake syrup over pancakes, waffles, or French toast for breakfast or brunch. If maple syrup sounds too plain for you or just want to try something new to serve at your next brunch, give … Read more
A homemade blueberry sauce made with fresh or frozen blueberries, sugar, butter, and thickened with cornstarch. Serve this easy to make sauce over pancakes, waffles, or French toast for breakfast or brunch. Blueberries are one of my favorite fruits in the summer, and I tend to stock up on them if I find a good … Read more
A simple maple strawberry syrup recipe made with fresh or frozen whole strawberries, sugar, and real maple syrup. Serve over pancakes, waffles or French toast for breakfast or brunch. I will say, this ranks as one of my favorite pancake toppings because you get the tangy strawberry flavor and the smooth finish of maple syrup … Read more
Apple cider syrup is made with fresh apple cider, brown sugar, cloves, and cinnamon. Serve this simple fresh tasting pancake syrup over pancakes, waffles, or French toast for breakfast or brunch. Not that many years ago, buying a bottle of pancake syrup was almost unheard of and there were few products available even if you … Read more
This delicious homemade peach sauce recipe has a great combination of peaches, mandarin oranges, apricot preserves and Grand Mariner liqueur. It makes a great topping for waffles, crepes, pancakes, or French toast. What a nice change from maple syrup on all of your breakfast items. It has a full bodied robust flavor with just a … Read more
Honey cinnamon butter is an easy to make flavored spread made with creamery fresh butter, honey, and cinnamon. Serve on toast, muffins, popovers, pancakes, and waffles. This is a quick and simple flavored butter recipe that can be ready in about 5 minutes and is a classy addition to your breakfast or brunch table. It … Read more
Chunky spiced pineapple sauce is made with canned pineapple chunks, cinnamon, sugar, and cloves. Just a touch of cinnamon, sugar, and cloves makes this a fun treat for breakfast or brunch. It would be especially good on homemade French vanilla ice cream. Serve this fruit recipe as a side dish for breakfast or brunch warm … Read more
Creamy Whipped orange butter is a sweet whipped spread made with real dairy butter, orange juice and confectioner’s sugar. Serve this flavored butter on toast, waffles, pancakes or French toast for breakfast or brunch. This spread has a light and delicate orange flavor from the orange juice and is just slightly sweetened with confectioners sugar. … Read more
