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Vintage Victuals started in late 2008 as a fun way for me to keep track of some of my favorite family recipes and to share them with my friends.

The blog has grown and taken on a life of its own, featuring tried-and-true recipes from my family members, quirky recipes from my vintage cookbook collection, and original recipes that I have come up with cooking dinner for my husband.

Vintage Victuals recipes have been featured on TasteSpotting, FoodGawker, and other culinary websites. The blog has also received several great awards from fellow bloggers. As the success of Vintage Victuals continues to grow, my culinary philosophy remains the same: simple, old-fashioned recipes are the absolute best!

I hope you will follow me and share in this great bloggin’ and bakin’ adventure!

Dear Readers,

I love to hear from you! Please email me with any questions, ideas, recipes, suggestions, or tips you may have. See a great vintage coobook on eBay that reminded you of my blog? Have a generations-old family recipe that you want to share? Have an idea for tweaking one of my recipes or (eep!) correcting a mistake in one? Email me!!! The most rewarding part of the blog for me is actually reaching out to people through my recipes, so feel free to reach out!!

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If you are interested in making one of my recipes and posting it on your own website, I ask that you merely change the text of the recipe to your own original words, and link back to the post here at VV. I love seeing other chefs out there enjoying my recipes, tweaking them, and sharing them with the blogosphere as long as citations link back to the original inspiration.

However, if you are interested in using my stories, my photos, or any other original content, I ask that you please contact me by email to ask permission. I am generally pretty easygoing about these things, but my inner lawyer voice says to be careful.

Check out this great article by David Lebowitz for more on being a legally compliant and ethical recipe blogger!

Smooches!
-Ellie

Hi! I’m Ellie, just your ordinary newlywed southern gal with a passion for cooking and baking from scratch.

I’ve been baking pretty much since I could see over the countertop. Before that, I had to use a stool to reach up and help mom stir. Cooking has always been a deeply seated part of my life, which is why this blog has become such a passion for me!

I grew up with a rich tradition of family recipes that had been passed down for generations. Instead of keeping these recipes a secret, I find great joy in sharing them with my readers all over the world.

Call me sentimental, but I believe that recipes can bind families together. I believe that a shared meal can bring loved ones closer. My mom taught me this, and it’s something that I hold close to my heart. I hope that my blog makes you feel the same way!

You don’t need to be a Martha or a Giada to make something that shows someone you love them. Most of my recipes here involve simple ingredients found at your local store or farmer’s market – the same ones your grandmother probably used. We don’t really have many specialty stores where I live, so I know how difficult it can be trying to drive all over creation looking for some obscure ingredient!

And most of my recipes are pretty easy and pretty quick – I pride myself in being able to bake a cake from scratch in the same amount of time it would take to stir a store-bought mix together. Just ask my grandmother Nanny – it drives her nuts!

I hope you enjoy my blog, and please come back and visit often.

Cheers!
Ellie

Hello, and welcome to Vintage Victuals! I thought I would take a moment to lay out what my blog is all about.

My blog is dedicated to good ol’ fashioned cooking and baking from scratch. From traditional treats to family heirloom recipes passed down over the generations, these recipes are time-honored, tried-and-true.

With today’s thirty-minute-meals (which end up really taking forever), and grocery store take-out lifestyle, I am saddened that some of our most loved, traditional recipes are getting lost in the hustle and bustle. With this blog, I hope to take our mother’s recipes, our father’s recipes, and our grandparents’ recipes and bring them back to life!

Let’s go back to when there were no cake mixes or ready-made items. Let’s cook like our grandmothers did! I think you’ll see it’s worth the extra effort to preserve the memories and traditions of those who baked before us.