20 WEIRDEST Meals People Ate During The Great Depression
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- From weird concoctions to odd pairings, the Great Depression era welcomed some of the most eccentric meals in history.
So, let’s talk about the 20 WEIRDEST Meals People Ate During The Great Depression…
My paternal grandfather was killed in an accident at the beginning of the depression. My grandmother kept the farm and 3 children afloat. I have nothing but mad respect for her strength. My dad said they always ate well because they had a huge garden, chickens. Cows for milk, cheese and meat, and rabbits for meat and sale
@sandralouth3103 A good woman
My mom and stepdad were like that. We had a great garden, fruit trees, berries. We had chickens, ducks and geese. Mom learned how to can and freeze we were never hungry or bored. It just didn't last long enough. We lost dad when I was 12. Mom never got over that. None of us did. 🕊️
My folks did that as well but with toast.
Snapping turtle soup was one rich folk enjoyed, but our neighbors Dad would go looking for them. They were one of the poorest families I ever knew. He'd risk his limbs to get a turtle, then they'd feast! I stayed overnight once, and in honor of my visit, they had fried potatoes, a skillet full. No grease so it was more steamed than fried. They were so happy to share that plate of potatoes. And😮 I could tell how special it was. Five kids Mom and Dad and me, sharing that skillet of potatoes, and glasses of water. We didn't have a lot ourselves, but when I got home again, I had a new appreciation for my families relative luxury. It's all in your perspective though. I saw that lone skillet of potatoes and thought of them as poor. They saw it and were so happy to have something so good to share with a visitor.
Learned from my grandmother at the end of frying potatoes to add a little water and let them steam until completely done…..yum yum
My Uncle Vince was married to my Moms oldest sister, so he was sort of a grandpa to me, a kid who came along after the grandpas were gone. He told me stories about growing up poor in a big Norwegian family. One night he was asked to dine with a friend, and they had cabbage. Just cabbage, nothing else. He said he realized at that moment that his family wasn’t so poor.
That is an absolutely beautiful story
When my dad was a boy (around 11 y/o) he lived in a little town in Ontario called Bloomfield. In their neighbourhood was an old woman who made snapping turtle soup. She would hire my dad and his friends to go to the local pond and catch them and they got paid per turtle. I once asked him what he spent his “snapping turtle money” on. He confessed he “blew it all on cigarettes”. Shocked, I asked him “…what did Granny say…?” He looked at me dead pan and said, “..she didn’t know it!” He was a juvenile delinquent in his small rural village! To this day this is my favourite story about my dad. He’s now in his 70’s and even though won’t admit it but I know he’s still proud of that! 🤣
The powdered cheese doesn't taste like cheese
My Grandma told me about the Great Depression. No canned goods. No vegetables. No meat. No rice. All she had was flour and lard and salt. She made rivels (miniature dumplings). She made soup out of this, while my Grandad was out looking for work...
Rivels! My mom made potato soup and rivels in the 70’s but I’m sure it came her mom’s depression recipe. I’ve tried to describe rivels to others but they don’t seem to get it. I loved mom’s potato soup with rivels.
The Amish still use rivels in a lot of their soup recipes.
Does anyone have the recipe for vinegar pie? Also, for that onion peanut butter dish, do you bake the onion w/the peanut butter in it?
@@MaryJeanReynolds ,Like how you'd make stuffed bell peppers
@MaryJeanReynolds I think there are vinegar pie recipes on Pinterest.
Creamed chipped beef, otherwise known as "s*it on a shingle".
😋😋😛😛
❤this especially when my grandma made it. She grew up in the depression.
It was so salty, it gave me a sore throat to eat it.
I haven't had that is so long .... I remember it in those boiling bag frozen thing 🤌
@@AuLily1, It didn't have to be. Try making it with some flat jerky pieces soaked and boiled, then add in some gravy mix of your choice. Homemade or packets. Either way.
I remember the mock apple pie recipe being on the Ritz cracker box in the 1970s.
Have you tried that yourself?
I remember it too and was fascinated by it because I couldn't imagine crackers tasting like apples.
I tried it once after I saw Hoss eat it on Bonanza. It was okay.
Me too!
Have you tried peanut butter and dill pickle. Pb and onion sandwiches ?
My mother was a child during the depression and she made a dish called poor man's pasta. It was made with pasta shells, canned tomatoes, and butter..
We also ate pieces of stale cornbread that were put into a glass of milk with sugar on top.
We also ate a fruit cobbler type of desert. She used all the fresh fruit that was over ripe and put in a pot with a mix of water sugar cinnamon. Brought to a boil and drop dumpling dough by spoonfuls. Cover and cook on medium until dumplings are puffy and cooked through. She called this desert "fruit clouds"..lol..
You guys ate better than my dad & his fam
I remember as a child eating the fruit dumplings made with berries we picked. Now I’m hungry!
My mother made this same meal and called it poor Irish people's food
I am 63, grew up on the creativity of the depression. I still think soup can be a bit different every time it is made. Use what you have if it fits, don’t waste anything.
Hi, I'm 66 and my parents had me late in life and I sure never grew up during the depression. Are you saying that you grew up during the depression? My parents grew up during the depression and passed on their frugal ways to me. Is that what you're saying?
suegeorge: Julie said she grew up on the "creativity" of the depression, she didn't say she grew up during the actual depression.
Back in the early and mid 1960's my grandmother still made 'dishwater soup'. I think she didn't get the memo when the depression ended. Dishwater soup was a pot of water, one whole peeled potato, one whole peeled onion and one beet cooked on her coal stove. I always hoped to get the potato.
I keep my leftovers in the freezer and when the dish is full time for a pot of soup
Road kill still goes on 2 day trust!
My grandma was born in 1914 and had two babies by age 17 they lived in a tent.
I loved my grandma and miss her all the time
Right now in 2024 the way the economy is going, I’ll have to start using some of these recipes because I literally can’t afford more than a week and a half of food on my Social Security check.
This video just might come in handy!
I started feeling the crunch back in early 2020
Same, 2020. Husband is retired, I'm disabled. I have a small garden, but we're learning to forage as well. I think I might join you trying a few of these @Navygrl58
You will be healthier.
Sad but true, it looks like i will be working as long as i plan on living because social security isn't enough in the current economy. Hang in there 💓
Dried peas and beans boiled are great cheap tummy fillers.
My parents married in 1933. Dad had a job, but Mom did not waste anything. She grew up on a farm eating onion and brown sugar sandwiches, creamed corn on toast, fried potatoes with (luxury) hot dogs. I was born 22 years after they married and had many food allergies. Catsup sandwiches were a treat for me. We eat very differently now, but seem to have rising cases of colon cancer, heart disease and other issues. Maybe they were onto something?????
Most of these I have never heard of, but for my Great Depression Era father, a biscuit torn up and dropped into a glass of milk was a meal.
My mother would do that w/ sliced bread and sometimes crackers.
we used cornbread
Hover was the worst presedent that caused the depression
My grandfather taught my brother ho to make and eat it when he'd go camping with them. I didn't realize it was from the depression! I kinda just figured grampa.liked it. Lol
@@user-jd2hu3dv3hPresident Herbert Hoover, you mean. 31st President of the U.S. of A.🇺🇸
He started to talk about road kill and then the video cut out lol.
I was raised by my Grandmother who grew up during the great depression. I remember peanut butter and onion sandwiches, egg and mayo sandwiches, snapping turtle soup, stale bread or crackers with warm milk on top and some sugar and much more! Great video!
peanut butter and onion sounds dreadful. lol And of course turtle soup.
Egg and mayo sandwiches are great
My father told me a treat for him was a tomato from their garden sliced with sugar sprinkled on top.
Most of these are still made by our family for over 80 years!!!!!
Wasn’t dandelions alone many different greens wilted down with bacon grease…
And you could add to bacon grease some flour, stir it well until thick and then add buttermilk to pour over the greens: lettuce soup.
You can also make dandelion wine, tea, or roast and grind it to make a fake caffeine-free instant coffee (it's not bad!).
We always welcomed that salad. Mom and I would spend an hour washing the dirt out of the sack dad would bring home. I still love it!
@06:44. Why are you showing a traditional English Christmas Pudding instead of a Prune Pudding? Those Christmas Puddings were luxury goods back in the UK's Depression decade of 1925 to 1935.
Also what people had in season. Tomato gravy, for desert a stack cake which is doughy pancakes with fruit preserves in between layers, here in South lots of cornbread, ham broth with corn meal dumplings, BBQ possum and gravy, poke salad, hard shell field corn pulled while young and boiled to death to make it soft enough to eat, snow cream in the winter was a treat, wild onions steamed and fried in meat grease and served over corn bread, salted herrings, eating everything off the pig from snout to tail, souse meat, head cheese, chittlins, a hash made of heart lungs liver, boiled backbone, pig feet or trotters, even used lard and lye from wood ashe to make soap.
Where did you find the video of preparing kraft macaroni and cheese ‘cause that isn’t what comes out of my iconic blue box🤨
Isn't very affordable either
You must have that first fake cheese😅😅😅😅
@@kingjames7273My son commandeered a rack in my smoker last summer (I was making jerky) and put in some homemade cheese. I fully dry my jerky for longevity. The cheese which resulted was a deep golden brown and as hard as a rock. This was then finely grated and bottled. Recently I made a quick Mac and cheese sauce (basically just a white sauce, respond if you want the recipe/method, no roux required) and he added some of the smoked cheese powder to it. OMG!!!!!!! This stuff had been in the pantry for months but the result was absolutely incredible.
My grandparents survived on potato soup. Anything that was available was added.
I love potato soup!
My Grandpa’s (Papa) favorite breakfast was hamburger gravy over toast. My Grandma made it in a cast iron skillet. It was so good!! I haven’t had it since she died 25 years ago.
My momma always made hamburger gravy was my brothers favorite….
Why don't you try to make it? It sounds like something that is absolutely delicious. Let me know if you decide to make it? My father grew up during the depression and dessert was bread and milk with just a pinch of sugar. I grew up eating that and it was such a treat.
a roux and hamburger, like sausage gravy. I make it and put it over noodles, too.
@@UncleDavesKitchen that sounds good too. Maybe even over rice? Biscuits? Toast?
There's a nice recipe for it on a website called "The Daring Gourmet"
My Mother In Law taught me about 6 of these, plus one more "Cantaloupe Cake" where you cook down the meat of your Cantaloupe in a regular sugar & water mix that basically creates syrup that you poured over your cake in layer form chill & serve - it is delicious!! Granted, it could be a "southern thing," too!!"😂
I’ve never heard of this but I will try it. Sounds so good.
I wonder if that would work with watermelon.
There were regional foods. My parents grew up in rural KY during the Depression (both born before 1930 and we ate in the 60s and 70s what they ate as youth - unless my mother hated it. My grandmother's (both born 1905) were down home farm wives who were experts at pinching pennies, and I ate plenty of meals at their homes. I'm one generation from the Depression. We never bought meat at the grocery until the mod 1970s - our family raised and killed our own meat, and raised our own vegetables. We' never ate any of these, and the majority I I've never heard of. A few I didn't eat until college, We never bought boxed mac & cheese - it's 1000 times better from scratch.
My parents were both born in 1915 , grew up during the Great Depression. Everything mother made was from scratch until I was in my mid-teens (I was born in 1950). Her Mac and cheese is still one of my favorites. Kraft can’t even come close to it. Her soups and casseroles were all original and delicious. When I was a child our oven temperature wasn’t even. Different parts of it were a different temperature. Thus, nothing baked in the oven came out evenly cooked. Mother cooked everything on top of the stove in a Dutch oven. I don’t know how she did it but her meals were delicious and had lots of variety. When I was 13 yrs.old we moved to Dallas, Tx. And got a better stove and oven. I grew up wanting to make everything from scratch. Small wonder.
My mom said my grandpa had biscuits and melted lard
I never knew these dishes were depression error foods. I grew up eating these dishes except the peanut butter and onion. Thank you for teaching me something new.
Era foods.
Growing up on Welfare. My mom would cook a lot of Government Issued beans, cheese, oatmeal. Us kids got fed up with beans (Navy, Pinto, Red, White). Green beans were fine, but the others? NO!
Grilled onion and tomato sandwich… with Mayo and ketchup!
This explains why everyone was so thin and no one had health problems I was born in 59 my Husband in 50 but our Parents and Grandparents grew up during this time I also was raised on a farm so I don't ever remember a time that we went without we were lucky.
Memories, I grew up eating the casserole mentioned, Mom made it so delicious and I was always so excited to find out when it was going to be our dinner.
I give this comment 100 thumbs up 🥳☕🎂
My mom remembers creamed corn over bread. That was their meal.
I like that meal.
Water pie was also popular in depression times, there are recipes online for it.
Fried rabbit, fried fish, fried snapping turtle. Potato soup. Mashed potatoes, fried potatoes, boiled potatoes. Beans on bread. Ham hocks and beans. Tuna casserole.
We didn’t eat the volumes of food that people do now.
Hoover Stew was called so because they BLAMED Hoover for the mess they found themselves in due to mismanagement of the banking and stock system.
Yeah, if you hadn't mentioned this, I would have. It was clearly a diss on Hoover.
He was solely responsible, hence hooverville
And yet people still vote for that party. They don't care if poor people eat!
@@DvLnDsGyZ We could name a soup today “Biden Soup” but that would make me loose my appetite
@@suzyq1865which is odd because the economy crashes before he was elected. Due to his predecessor loosing the banks and giving tax breaks to the rich
We sometimes had nothing for lunch but catsup and bread..... Catsup sandwiches, we ate it and didn't complain. I liked butter and onion sandwiches myself.
My husband grew up really poor and often had Mayo sandwiches. Just bread and Mayo. Nowadays Mayo is getting really expensive though
I ate ketchup sandwiches as a kid just because I liked them! Butter and sugar too. And mayo sandwiches. I thought it was a treat!
My mom was born in 1927. Her favorite treat was soda crackers and milk...i love it too!
I use mustard but price of mustard has risen.
Things my grandparents ate in the depression:
- buttermilk poured over crumbled day-old corn bread.
- fried mush, which was cold leftover cream of wheat cereal fried in a bit of lard.
- a saucer of saltine crackers soaked in sweet milky instant coffee, eaten with a spoon.
- pot of slow cooked navy beans, served over a slice of stale bread and if they had it, topped with ketchup and lots of black pepper.
Tough times.., aren’t they?
If you grew your own food, baked your own bread, raised chickens etc. you always had food.
During the depression, DUST bowl- in certain places, nothing grew, therefore nothing to feed chickens and nothing to make bread… Sometimes in our comfort, we forget just how hard it was for so many… locusts and Jack rabbits were available for awhile…
Mayonnaise sandwich, no ketchup or onion, was common when there was nothing else to make sandwiches with. A biscuit dipped in bacon Grease was lunch and dinner often. My husband was born 1930 and told me what he remembered. He learned and practiced frugalness his entire life.
At our house, instead of garbage plate we have "kitchen sink soup". Everything goes into it except the kitchen sink. Great way of getting rid of leftovers and veggies that are about to go bad. Hardly the same soup ever lol
I was craving my grandpa's Chipped Beef & almost fell over when I saw that a 2.5 ounce jar of beef cost close to $7 US dollars
Sweet
Didn’t know it was a ‘depression era food’ but I’ve made many soups and casseroles by pulling odds and ends from the fridge and pantry. I guess I thought everyone did that 🤷♀️
That was an abrupt ending! lol
Stouffers made frozen creamed chipped beef as recently as the 1990s. Maybe they still do. It was considered an upscale item compared to Swanson’s or Morton’s frozen food.
Yes agreed…. Do you like this yourself?
My Mother made creamed chipped beef.
I have a package of Stouffers creamed chipped beef in my freezer right now. I love it. It's not as popular as it once was, I've asked the grocer to please order it
I learned to make all kinds of bean soups, to die for. From lentil and pasta, green pea and ham, northern bean soup topped with parmasean and fresh lemon, ministrone, broccolie, soup, califlower soup,potatoe soup. Its all cheap to make, full of protein, vitiamins, and filling .Its all in the seasonings, and how you cook them. You can make all kinds of diffrent rice dishs, pasta dishes, vegetable dishes, zucchini, cabbage, potoatoe fritters. But if theres no food, you going to need how to fish, hunt, trap, gather wild berries, mushrooms, and know whats good to eat and whats poisonous. Because whats coming is going to be way worse than the Great Depression. 😢
My dad had lard and bread sandwiches
Like the white fat ? In bread?
My grandmother would get someones potato peelings and make with home made gravy!
we fried potato skins in lard or bacon grease and make sandwiches, it is wonderful, I still make that.
Web Would just put salt on the peelings and would eat them as a snack
Mac n cheese and Egg Drop soup I had no idea.
I would like the video so much better if it had actual pictures of the products that are being talked about, as opposed to fancier things that have nothing to do with it. For example, the ketchup mayonnaise and onion sandwich was shown as having tons of chopped tomatoes in it as if it were a salsa sandwich.
Appreciate your interest.
Will try to make our videos better based on your suggestions.
My mother made American Chop Suey which she learned from her mother. It seems like a French Canadian version of Hoover Stew. It had elbow macaroni, stewed tomatoes, some ground beef and salt pork for seasoning.
Gas tro nom ic. This video is confusing because the dishes do not match the description, specifically vinegar pie. My mother made mock apple pie often and I challenge anyone to recognize this dessert as not having any apples in it whatsoever.
Grew up in 70s and 80's no weird depression era foods. Mac and cheese isn't only from the great depression. Just Kraft.
People were eating mac and cheese as far back as 1845, possible sooner.
If I recall, you can fill a bell pepper with anything you would use to make a meatloaf....bake??? temp for so long. Use a cookie sheet or any pan you could bake a meatloaf in. If you don't want ketchup on top, use some Parmesan cheese (before you bake.)
My mom before me and now I at 68 yrs old, have stuffed peppers so many times. I cut the tops off the pepper so you can take the seeds out. The top without the stem, was cut into small pieces for the stuffing mixture. With that went the raw ground meat ( beef, pork, lamb, goat- whatever you had), diced onions, cooked rice and Campbell's tomato soup to moisten the mix. It just doesn't taste the same with other brands. If you didn't have much meat, you used more rice. Some spices such as garlic, salt and black pepper could be added. You tried to get peppers that had reasonably flat bottoms so the peppers would sit flat in the oven pan. Fill each pepper with the meat and rice mixture and could either fill to the top or mound it up a little. If you had room between the peppers and might be afraid they would fall, use either washed potatoes or cut up cabbage ( my favorite so I got the taste of both stuffed peppers and stuffed cabbage) between the peppers to hold them up. Put in a little water or tomato soup on the bottom of the pot. Cover with either the roaster top or aluminum foil. Put into an oven at 350 degrees F for about an hour and a half. You should be able to smell the cooked peppers. May sure the peppers are fully cooked and tender. Enjoy! And they can be frozen for later.
@@monicaluketich6913you can also cut them in half lengthwise to fill them more. They dont tip.over that way
My Grandmother used to make ham or chicken Pot Pie soup. She would make and roll out her egg noddle dough. She would add diced potatoes and the ham or shredded chicken, and this really let her stretch a dollar. She raised a family of 8 making various types of soup that were so good even her grandchildren would beg her to make them, decades after the depression had ended.
Thanks for sharing…..You liked that???
@@VintageTVShows Oh yes, it was the heartiest meal I've ever eaten.
I've seen a lot of depression era food videos, but this is about the best I've seen. Great!
I'm sure a lot of these have made a comeback in the last 3 years.
I’ve started a new tradition that I’m going to be eating during the next Great Depression (and I’m eating it now too) a sandwich with peanut butter and thinly sliced apple from my tree. It even works with little sour crab apples. It’s delicious. My grandma liked to bread and fry dandelion tops. My great grandma that lived through the depression was big on rice pudding.
Cracker "cereal" is one of my comfort foods, so are chipped beef on toast, warm milk poured over toast onion sandwiches when I am sick
My father would tell stories about "hobo soup". A man would walk into a diner and order a cup of tea. They would pocket the teabag, and mix ketchup, salt and pepper into the hot water.
My MiL's mother's birthday treat was a mound of mashed potato with a well on top. Into this well, her mother would crack a fresh egg, raw. I've made the wartime British staple, boiled onions. Completely delicious!!
The great depression started for indigenous people when someone arrived on a boat
Now a Dandelion Salad is a gourmet salad going for $18.00 plus.
The actual history of this time is quite jaded in this video. Anyone ever heard of Hooverville? There was nothing at all nostalgic about this time in United States history, nor were there any loving families gathering around a dinner table. Children were previously borne simply to help out on the farm. When there no longer was a farm to be had, they were thrown onto the streets, and I am sorry to say, but there was no one singing the praises of weathering out the storm with good old Hoover.
I didn't know that was a "depression casserole." I have something like that about 3 times a week.:)
My mother grew up during the Great Depression on a few acres of land that my grandparents raised chickens, rabbits & vegetables. She was the oldest of six children. They never went hungry & there was enough to share with those in need. I remember her teaching us kids that dandelions weren’t just “weeds”. She took us out to the empty lot to pick them for supper. She also taught us how to plant a nice little garden, this was back in the 60’s in California. My Dad had passed, but mom was a smart woman; she had learned a lot & we never went hungry either. ❤️
My grandma was from the depression. She made the best beef tripe and potatoes. And her sour cream pound cake to die for. I wish would have more attention to her recipes. 😅
As entertaining as this presentation is, it was written and voiced by an AI that has never known hardship or tasted food in its life!
and the video with plastic spoons, huge watches, new kitchen items. so much for 'vintage.'
My mom who was a child in the20s in the praries of colorado would me in the 60!made toast have sugar lots of cinnamen i grew up in the 60s but liked it was called grave yard stew
Look up the recipes for sugar cream pie & water pie.
Meat once a week for one . Beans ,corn bread , dandelion greens with salt pork and potatoes. Biscuits morning ,noon and night .
Sounds great!
My grandma would mix bread crumbs with bits of left over and even mouldy cheese, then crack an egg into milk whisk it with some herbs and spices, pour it over the crumb mixture and bake it in the oven. It was my granddad's favourite. I have made a modern version, i.e without the mouldy cheese, and it is delicious, it like eating a cloud😊
Sounds great!
Popcorn with milk is OK but challenging.... Has to be eaten quickly or it turns to mush as the popcorn disintegrates.....
I like popcorn and milk, if you put brown sugar on it, it tastes like Sugar Smacks!!
In the 70’s as a young girl, I had the luxury to taste snapping turtle soup. Really enjoyed it and very delicious. It was cooked in a pot stove on a fire in a shed. I miss the simple life of not having technology and the craziness.
Poor turtle
"Gastronomic", not "Gastromic".
I'm amazed & impressed of how resilient people were during the great depression 😟
I absolutely love dandilion greens, in a salad or sautéed, any which way it is prepared. Awesome. 😊❤
My dad said they weren't the poorest in his little town despite losing his dad in 1936. He never had to eat lard and sugar sandwiches, but they got butter.
At the end of the month, the relief ran out and they had to pick greens along the railroad. We only got spinach when dad was gone.
My grandma made a lot of these dishes. Her favorite soup of all time was turtle soup. Creamed chipped beef is also S.O.S. S#%t on a shingle. Great one too.
Sounds great!
have you tasted that?
@@VintageTVShows yep the sos but not turtle soup.
@@VintageTVShowsIt’s one of my favorite meals
Hoover Stew is happening in my house this week. We have several variations on it. 😂
My grandma used to regale us with the tale of how they ate lard........ LARD spread on white bread, sprinkled with salt and pepper for dinner. Also made creamed eggs: the chipped beef recipe with chopped boiled eggs instead of the dried beef. One summer when we were visiting, I got sick and she made me creamed eggs and it was delicious.
I wish I could try your grannies food. It’s history
Excellent narrative. You almost inspired me to try one of these "gastronomic adventures." Fortunately, I don't have to do that. TY. This was very enjoyable.
My mother used to make a tomato sandwich ,with sliced tomatos on mayonnaise, with Salt & pepper.I like to make peanut butter & mayonnaise sandwich.My mother learned how to make those sandwiches from my granma who did live thru the Great Depression.She was born in October of 1905.
Dandelions have been eaten for centuries, it didn't just start in the great depression. They weren't considered a "weed" until the 1950's when golf started becoming popular that "American grass lawns" became a thing.
My mom loved prune whip. Had it fairly often in my childhood.
My parents were raised during the Depression. Years later my mom would still send me out to the yard to pick dandelion greens to flesh out our salads. Years after that, I work at Whole Foods & we sell dandelion greens for $4.00 a bunch!
Thanks for sharing
Both of my parents were born in the 40s. Both on hard times and on a farm. Some of these I’ve never heard of, but a lot of them I grew up eating (I’m on my late 40s), and I still make them myself. Though the ketchup sandwich variation my mom did was a simple tomato slice with salt and pepper on toast.
A woman I knew taught me to make spaghetti and bread balls. The bread balls were made of day old bread made into crumbs. Add parsley, garlic powder and eggs. These are made into flat patties about 1/2” thick and browned in a small amount of fat. These were the put into marinara sauce and Parmesan or Romano cheese sprinkled over the plate when the sauce and bread balls were put over spaghetti.
Thanks for sharing 🙂
We never had Snapping Turtle Soup, but we often had Mock Turtle Soup. What is a Mock Turtle, you might ask? Well every once in a while, mom and her friend would go to the slaughterhouse and get some calves brains. Yes, calves brains! They where surprisingly good cooked up as Mock Turtle Soup. By 1970, mom stopped making Mock Turtle Soup. The slaughterhouse changed the way they killed cows, and their brains were contaminated with lead. Many cooks changed to using ground beef in lieu of calves brains, but is just not the same.
Now Kraft Mac and cheese comes with cauliflower noodles along with regular noodles.
Is the sauce mix still all chemicals?
@@hotrodblonde I don’t know because my friend is trying to get her little kids to eat vegetables. I’m bad…. I told them veggies are poison. Lol
My Father kept raving about Scraple but couldn’t tell us what it was. Then we went to Pennsylvania to see Grandma and she said would you like some Scraple? Dad was YES! It turned out to be bread slices fried in lard and sprinkled with sugar. 😮
I was born and raised in PA Dutch country, still live here. I can assure you that you did not have scrapple, it isn't fried bread.
Scrapple is made from ground up parts of a pig unused after butchering. There are seasoning and spices added to it while it's made, looks like a very thick soup. It is then poured into pans to set. Most slice it and fry it, we love putting King's syrup on it
@@jickie511 you are correct "scrapple" spelled with two p's is a meat dish. "Scraple" spelled with one p is anything you can scrape over a piece of bread and pretend is dinner.
I've fasted rather than scrapple
You show cheese...... CHEESE! dream on........
If you lived on a farm with a cow or goat, this cheese would be possible. Adding butter, cream and a tad of flour could do the trick.
My grandmother was born in 1918. She made a ham and egg pie. Smoked hamhocks (cheapest protein), hand made dumplings and fresh eggs. I'm in charge of this dish every reunion 😂.
How it tastes?
Stone soup.
My favorite story
@DebiG1057. My mom would make something like your recipe. She would take Jones sausage links ( or ground sausage), stewed tomatoes, elbow macaroni, water of course, onion, garlic and 5 min before serving, she would throw in 1/2 box of the tender tiny frozen peas by BirdsEye. We loved it and called it "slum gullion". 😊 When asked why she called "slum gullion" she said it was her version of goulash.
My paternal grandmother died of lockjaw in 1928 when my dad was only 8. My grandfather was left with 4 boys. I wonder if the hardship of losing his wife and the depression hitting led him to put my dad and his brother into an orphanage for the next several years. My dad didn’t say much to me about it but the one thing I remember him saying “Poor Pop, he just couldn’t handle it”. 😢. Poor dad 😢. He finally went home as a teen…
Sad 😢… life is tough for many
Brings back a lot of memories , not of the 30's but of the 50's and 60's. I grew up in the coal country o So. Central Illinois and as the rest of the country was coming out of the Depression we got tossed right bs when the railroads switched from coal to diesel. But my family still kept up their resourceful eating habits well into the 1960's especially my grandmothers.
Spring was time for dandelion salad. We picked the greens whole and cleaned them, fried up some bacon and after it cooked, we took it out and deglazed the pan with cider vinegar that was poured over the dandelions . The bacon was broken up and added to the dandelion along with slices of cold hard boiled eggs and rings of onion or chopped scallions. It was also a time for mushrooms that were either fried in butter or added to gravies,
Summer was the time for garden delights especially bib lettuce . We cut the tops rather than pull up the whole plants so they would keep on producing all summer. We also had tomatoes, and bell peppers for eating and canning, and grapes for juice and pies. Berry picking brought us
wild blackberries and dewberries for pies, jellies, and with milk. Late summer brought apples and peaches from our trees or from the orchard where a bushel of apples in baskets was $3.00 basket and all. We would get a bushel of Red Delicious, Golden Delicious eating apples and Winesap and Johnathan for pies and share them with the family. We'd also get a gallon of apple cider and let it go hard. Boy was that GOOD.
Then there was fishing for bluegill and catfish. It took a lot of bluegill to make a meal and you spent a lot of time cleaning yourself after cleaning the fish because you and everything else was covered in scales. Catfish were easier to clean but nothing beats the sweet taste of blue gill meat. Since we were close to the Mississippi river a lot of people hunted snapping turtles. The alligator snappers get huge from 40 to 60 pounds or more and are nothing to fool with. They can take off your hand and they don't let go. I didn't try turtle soup until I was in college though.
In the fall we were still getting apples and also all sorts of nuts. There was hickory, pecan, and walnut trees either wild or planted and we would gather and sort for pies cookies and cakes.
Persimmons would also ripen in the fall and sassafras root would be gathered for tea or just to suck on a piece as a substitute for banned chewing gum at school.
The depression dishes we enjoyed in addition to dandelion salad was chicken barely soup made with necks and backs that my grandmother got from the butcher for free, combined with onion, carrot, and celery, and a box of barley and butter; white radish and butter with salt and pepper sandwiches, toasted cheese ,onion, and tomato sandwiches; :Miracle Whip sandwiches, polenta with beef, pork, squirrel or rabbit stew; cinnamon toast with butter, spaghetti with a simple sauce of tomato paste, tomato sauce, red wine, and lots of pepper. and simple pancakes of two eggs and two teaspoons of flour mixed in mllk and cooked in butter, with a drizzle of white corn syrup. Most of these things I have taught my kids to make and my daughter has given up working in Chicago. She bought a farmhouse with two acres of land to plant fruit trees and large gardens so we are going back to the Depression days but eating a lot better.
We children ate mayo sandwiches in the 1960s and thought of it as a treat.
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My parents told many stories about what they and others ate. Lard sandwich was one. A neighbor family would buy a 100 pound bag of cracked beans for a quarter. The kids had beans for lunch every day. On Friday they had the treat of chocolate pudding.
Rabbits were a common addition. Hot dogs were cheap and a treat. They had chickens so eggs and fried chicken. When they would butcher a hog they would cure some. They made sausage and cooked it. Put it in a crock and then pour the grease over it. That preserved it. Pry the patties out and heat them to eat.
Check out Townsends for videos of what people ate in early America.
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Fire Clay Potatoes and Grease Bread....our daily lunch on the farm when I was a kid. My Dad grew up during the Depression and WW2....that was a regular meal for them then....I just considered it a "treat" for the hard work we did in the field all day. I MISS those days!
Wow is all I can say!❤ coffee soup? Popcorn milk? I might try some of these
The fondue they are showing is actually Banga Cauda.
A few cloves of garlic and anchovies make a delicious hot olive oil bath for breads, veggies, and meats.
Sounds great!
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Dandelions are very healthy.