Vintage Recipes: Lost Recipes from America's Diners: Blue-Plate Specials, All-Day Breakfasts, Roadside Favorites, and Old-Fashioned Pies - Couverture souple

Bennett, Norma Ruth

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ISBN 13 : 9798163596935

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Remember when the best meal in town might be waiting at a roadside diner?

A plate of tender Salisbury steak covered in mushroom gravy. Golden pancakes served any time of day. A hot roast beef sandwich piled high with gravy. And a glass dessert case filled with homemade pies.

Lost Recipes from America's Diners brings together 75 recipes inspired by the everyday cooking traditions of American diners, lunch counters, and roadside restaurants.

Part of the Vintage Recipes series, this collection goes beyond familiar burgers and breakfast plates. It brings lesser-known regional specialties together with the blue-plate dinners, counter sandwiches, and old-fashioned desserts that helped define American diner cooking.

Rediscover 75 diner favorites across six chapters:

Breakfast Served All Day: Buttermilk Griddle Pancakes, Crispy Corned Beef Hash, Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast, and Fried Cornmeal Mush.

Today's Blue-Plate Specials: Chicken Croquettes with Cream Gravy, Salisbury Steak, Yankee Pot Roast, Country-Fried Steak, and Swiss Steak.

Roadside Grills and Counter Sandwiches: Patty Melts, Iowa Loose-Meat Sandwiches, Midwestern Breaded Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches, and Kentucky Hot Browns.

Soups, Sides, and Counter Salads: Diner-Style Chili, Chicken Noodle Soup, Creamy Coleslaw, Onion Rings, and Buttery Mashed Potatoes.

Pies from the Glass Dessert Case: Banana Cream Pie, Mile-High Lemon Meringue Pie, Hoosier Sugar Cream Pie, Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie, and Sour Cream Raisin Pie.

Desserts and Soda Fountain Favorites: Rice Pudding, Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, Chocolate Malted Milkshakes, New York Egg Creams, and Banana Splits.

What makes this collection different?

Alongside familiar American comfort food, you'll find dishes that have become less common on restaurant menus. These include scrapple, chicken croquettes, fried cornmeal mush, and regional sandwich specialties.

The recipes span skillet cooking, griddling, roasting, baking, simmering, and classic pie-making. Many use ordinary grocery-store ingredients and familiar home kitchen equipment.

Prepare a substantial family dinner, put together a weekend diner breakfast, or bring back a dessert you remember from years ago.

Some diner favorites never went away. Others deserve another place at the table.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798163596935
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 185
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg