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
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. 🕊️
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.
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.
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! 🤣
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..
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.
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?
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.
@@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.
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?????
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!
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!
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
@@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 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
@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.
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!!"😂
Cantaloupe cake is very good made with a 1 egg cake split into layers! Also love Cantaloupe pie, a cream pie in a pre baked crust topped with meringue or whipped cream!
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 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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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 husband, born in the depression, would hunt for rabbit and squirrel. He taught me how to catch, skin, clean and prep it. There are a couple of summer months that you can't eat rabbit, has something toxic in it. Yes, we're in for something no one alive has experienced and much worse than depression.
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. 😅
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 🤷♀️
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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😊
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.
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.
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
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 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!
I was so poor as a student but my Mum and Grandma were such good cooks and taught me some tricks. I invented a vegan "meatloaf" and still make it occasionally today, though a bit more refined. Breadcrumbs, finely chopped onions, carrots and any other veggies available per season. To make it extra yummy, lightly fry the chopped veg in a bit of oil or butter first, add breadcrumbs, finely chopped nuts, chopped mushrooms, then vegetable broth ( & a spoon of peanut butter), mixed herbs and salt n pepper to taste. Add a bit of soy sauce, or chopped hot peppers for some zing if that's your thing. Let it sit for 20 mins for the breadcrumbs to soak, then pour the mix into an oiled baking tin and bake in a moderately hot oven for 20-30 minutes or until brown on top. Or make the mix into burger patties, or stuff it into sweet peppers, or as a pie filling etc. Enjoy with some steamed veg or a crisp salad. Enjoy!
My grandfather built a highway and got paid. 25 cents a day. They could only afford to buy flour. Grandma had chickens and that's how they survived. A garden, flour and chickens.
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.
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.
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.
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.
German here. As a child I made friends with the neighbors' children, we lived close together - a long terraced house with three apartments, my family in the middle. The furnishings of the neighbors' were cozy but old-fashioned and a bit shabby, the car was old and rusty ... as a child I didn't really notice it (only now when I think about it). My mother had to run errands one afternoon and my father didn't get home until late that day, so I stayed with the neighbors and had lunch there too. When lunch was served, they were moping: "Is it the end of the month again?" I didn't understand what they mean and we had pasta with ketchup for dinner and an apple each for dessert. How cool, pasta and ketchup! I thought it was super tasty as a child. In the evening, I talked to my mother about it and how I didn't understand the "end of the month" thing. My mother knew that I wouldn't let up and on my word of honor that I wouldn't blab, she told me that social welfare is always paid at the beginning of the month and that's not a lot of money and therefore there's usually not much money left over at the end of the month and pasta and ketchup are just cheap to eat. Over the next few months, my mother cleverly arranged it so that when the end of the month fell on a weekend, the children slept with us and we had pyjama parties or other activities and the children then ate with us. We were far from rich, but we were better off.
I am so grateful my grandfather was a farmer. When my family moved to the city my grandfather grew most of their food. I was told by my mom they ate a lot of potatoes and beans. My grandma was in charge of cooking and my mom said my grandma was very creative and made delicious dishes. They also had their own chickens so they had plenty of eggs and once in awhile chicken meat. They also ate goat sadly it was their pet. I have no clue how they did it during the depression because my grandparents had 20 children to feed and cloth. Which was very hard…. And yes you read correctly 20 children to feed and cloth. Please keep in mind they were strict Catholics. And well there wasn’t birth control at the time. My grandma had them all at home and no pain medicine. I was also told the government gave out rations. Thank you for video. This is the first I heard of these meals. Except the Mac and cheese.
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.
It’s not ‘weird’… starving people eat whatever is on offer, so if anyone from those days sees the word ‘weird’ they will think it disrespectful. They didn’t get to choose what to eat because during the great depression some stayed unemployed for 6 years or so. God bless them all and much respect to them.
Reality. It was a terrible time, and people didn't sit around a cozy pot of anything, all sociable and laughing. They were civil to each other, but chit chat at "meal" time wasn't real abundant.
Can you imagine having a fondue party in the age of C0vid?😱 LOL. I love these! Reminds me of my Granny, who had a baby in 1932 and lived to tell about it. The Garbage Plate sounds like my Friday night "Chef's Surprise," where I get whatever's left in the fridge and make a stew, soup, casserole... nobody knows cuz it's a surprise! 😆
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…
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 😂.
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.
