Food For Thought (1949) 

Age 67, still recall my Home Economics classes. Cooking, Sewing and Etiquette. I couldn't walk without that darn book on my head falling, but I could cook like Betty Crocker and set a table for a dinner party like Martha Stewart !

It still blows me away that Home Economics isn't offered in public high schools any more. Love these vintage videos.

I have a feeling that 'Laura is my girlfriend. Jack's her brother - nice boy, if you like boys' probably meant something quite different back in the 1940s than today!

I'm only 63,but I'm thankful to my mother who taught me how to cook,and manage a house. I also taught my sons how to do the basics of housekeeping,cooking,and money management. All kids need to learn home economics in the schools. Its not being old-fashioned. It's being responsible.

As someone born in the 50's, I am a sucker for these vintage videos, they are like a walk back in time. ☺

Can we all take a moment to appreciate that sink? In the mid-90s we lived in a house with a similar, fabulous vintage kitchen. Metal cabinets and a huge sink with built in drainboards on either side. Absolutely loved it! Sadly, the new owners ripped it all out and put in run-of-the-mill Home Depot cabinets and appliances. I could have cried.

All these vintage videos SHOULD be shown in school even in this era. It all makes sense.

She called her Mom elderly, omg!!! 😂

Omg, that lady housewife was actress Spring Byington. I loved her in old movies from the 40s & 50s. 💜

I take care of my mother in law she is 89 and I use her old pressure cooker. It works great. Love it.

I love their hair style and the way they dress , decent and elegant .

My mother wouldn't allow me and my sister in the kitchen while she was canning her fruits or vegetables in the pressure cooker. She was always afraid that the pressure cooker would explode.

Most Indian homes have about 3 pressure cookers or varying size and needs in ALL homes. We dont know how to cook without them.

It sounds funny but this film motivated me to finally try the pressure cooker I've had for nearly 2 years, which was still in its box. While the design was quite updated compared to the ones used in this film, the basic method after preparing your ingredients was the same; lock the lid, heat on high until there's a steady stream of steam, then turn down low to simmer. I made a pork and onion sauce for pasta using 1.6kg (3 1/2 pound) piece of pork cut into very large chunks. The recipe I use calls for a simmer time of 3+ hours. After one hour under pressure it was done! The meat was perfect and just tender enough to shred with a fork. I had added a little too much water on my first try so my sauce needed to simmer a little with the lid off to reduce down but I was just amazed. Lesson learned for next time. To anyone curious or like me a little apprehensive, all I can say is give it a go, as I know I'll be cooking a bit more in the 'modern manner" from now on. 👍

I like looking at the decor.

I was born in 1957, I remember many things from my youth that are sadly gone today. It was a better world back then for those things, Home Ec., Civics class..(that needs to come back)...and many other things that were common then but long gone now...Too Bad

Honestly this made me want a pressure cooker

I was born in 1976 but I love seeing these videos. I care 4 my husbands grandmother. She loves I cook like this. Reminds her of her childhood & teen days of cooking with her mom.

Watching this again, I'm struck by how much emphasis is placed on avoiding the smell of cooking. While some things (like fish and boiled eggs) don't smell very good, these days the scent of most foods is considered a positive thing, and a sign that the food is going to be good.

That’s a fancy asss kitchen. Two pressure cookers too. Dolla dolla

To see Spring Byington and Connie Marshall is the best, but to also finally learn how to use the pressure cooker I see in vintage shops-this is priceless!!! I learned more here than my Home Ec a million years ago. Luckily my mom taught me cooking. I live my life in 40s clothes and 40s kitchen items in every way I can afford because I feel happiest among that era. Thank you a million for this upload! Have a nice day vintage lovers:)

80s kid here but I love the old American tradition, they are much more happier and gather around like a real family unlike now.

Love watching these older videos. Only 4 yrs. since the war was over. I love hearing the language. "Humbly grateful".

No wonder no kids like veggies back then if all the moms were boiling veggies for an hour! I started to like a lot more veggies when I learned to cook them just until heated through so their colors and crispness was still intact (learned this by watching cooking shows about Chinese food).

Imagine being worried about the "mixing of flavors." My dad has made meals all in one pan and called it Gulash. It always turned out pretty good despite multiple vegetables all muddled up in the same dish LOL

My mom used a pressure cooker often. We raised cattle so always had beef. I still love roast beef. My wife and her mother always talked bad about pressure cookers because they worried they would blow up. A few years ago though my wife gave me a insta pot for Christmas. Which is just an electric pressure cooker. We use it fairly regularly. I use it more as a slow cooker. My mom also did massive amounts of pressure canning too. She always had a huge garden and put up enough to last most of the winter.

Is it just me or does the man eating spaghetti & meatballs look totally PISSED?

The modern version of this would be the Insta pot.

I adore these videos. They're like a warm hug.

There is a blast from the past! Spring Byington isn’t a name we see around anymore. But in the day, she was everywhere. I looked on Wikipedia and it says she was on Mr Ed, Laramie, I Dream of Jeannie and The Flying Nun.

My grandma would've been Carol's age at the time of this video, she LOVES the pressure cooker.

Those cookers scared the hell out of me as a kid. Most of the time I stayed out of the kitchen but I remember a lot more steps to it finally being safe enough to take the lid off of one of those things.

Saved my parents tons of time. Dad used it too when older. Smelled great veggies! I have always been afraid to use one when mom told me how the lid can blow to the ceiling so I never did... I hear nowdays it's a lot safer. When that Presto book was pulled out, boy I remember that!

My first thought at 7.18 was...i wish I could afford that size of beef!

Well I’m sold! What an awesome advert!!

Using mine for years. Love it. Found nothing better for turnips. Also I want this kitchen.

I always loved Spring Byington's voice. I remember her on her TV show, December Bride when I was a kid.

This is equivalent to us teaching our parents/grandparents how to use the Keurig or the Air fryer.

I love chicken gizzards when cooked thoroughly and tender. Properly prepped they cook totally tender in just 52 minutes in a pressure cooker whereas on top of the stove they take 3 hours. I have a Presto electric frying pan purchased around 2010. Presto's been in business for a long time.

I have an Instapot that has the pressure cook option and I LOVE it. Have done pressure cooking in the past and now use it at least one a week. Pot roast, stew, chili, noodle dishes. Beef, chicken, pork any thing at all.

Im 54 and grew up with my great granny, she taught me how to use a pressure cooker and canner when I was a kid. I still do and I've taught my daughter-in-law and granddaughter! They love the fact they can cook a roast aftrr work!❤

Going to look for a pressure cooker. My momma used hers all the time.

I’m 42 and I absolutely love these videos. I was born in the wrong era.

Food has changed since the 50’s, quantity and presentation.

I think my dream is to have grown up in the early 60s. It was still an innocent time but an exciting time with all the new gadgets(ovens, toasters,washer and dryer, etc), when i watch shows like bewitched i get so jealous of how put together everything and everyone is. Lol

The early version of the microwave. I was a young child in the 1960s, but I don't recall my mom using one of these. PS Check out the blinding wallpaper between the kitchen and the dining room!

Present in every brazilian home.

Im 27 year old wife and mother and I absolutely love these videos... my mother didnt teach me homemaking but I am learning more every day. Baking my bread and meals from scratch, keeping my house tidy, heck we even have a chest freezer for stocking up. I find myself missing these times although Ive never lived them. I long for a life full of these "vintage" values, simplicity and wholesomeness. I just know Im getting closer each and every day. ❤ What an honor and a blessing it is to be a homemaker.

Thank you for making all these wonderful films available

As someone born in the late 90s, I’m Madly in love with Connie Marshall.

It's funny that they forgot to warn them about what happens if you don't cool it under running cold water. If you try to open it too soon, the lid "blows" off! My aunt's steam valve flew up into the ceiling because she forgot to lower the eat once it started pressure cooking.

I have that very same pressure cooker with the box even! It was given to me by an elderly man's family that I had helped about 10 years ago after he passed away. I cherish that cooker & the vintage steak knife set they gave me as well. It seems his wife kept packaging for everything. 😊

I love all the crisco used.

A true gem of a video! The subtle humor at 4:51 elevates it all the more.

A pressure cooker a hairdo and a facelift. Happy girl!

I miss my grandmothers.

I love my 2-year old stovetop pressure cooker, but I had no idea that there was a pressure-cooker INSTITUTE!

I am mesmerized

I think I miss the kitchen equipment and attention to setup for a cook/baker. The machines were designed to last forever, cast iron sinks & the space they gave, and they even had a butter warmer in the fridge.

I love these! Being a boomer it's like going back to childhood. Thank you for the blast from the past.

The start of this looked like a start of an infomercial haha. Great video. I love the vintage life videos ❤ could watch them all day

I loved my Home Economics class in junior high school in the mid 1980's and this video reminded me of that fact.

A very good recipe and kitchen home shores.A lot of thanks you for posting this program.

That wallpaper!

Connie Marshall played one of Cary Grant's/Myrna Loy's daughters in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House a year or 2 prior to this. Another 1940's domestic gem.

"like most elderly people"... ma'am....

I love watching these classic films 🎥 🎞 thanks for sharing your videos ❤

I love watching these vintage films.

Well that was fun! Thank you!

Feeling smug with my instant pot lollll

I can't imagine working a job & doing that kind of housework when I got home 😮 This sure makes my little bit of housework work seem easy!

My mother's cousin was seriously injured when something went wrong and the pressure cooker exploded. She's never been comfortable using one since.

I have 4 pressure cookers 1 of them is electric another one is 2 quart size like a frying pan size, love them all! I also have a 22 qt one to pressure can all foos, love canning meats , makes it really easy to round up your meals.

Love these videos too. I was born in the 50s too

3:24 Old-fashioned Morton Salt.

I think anyone Mom today would rejoice if her kid would boil an egg for Dinner!

"With me hardly out of my 30's"... why did this woman already look like she's in her late 50's?

It’s nice seeing Spring Byington in this clip.

Wow, my mom was 1 year old here. I so love nostalgia and the 40s and 50s. Back when America offered American jobs and our Nation wasn't so divided. I've always wanted to live in an updated 50s home, appliances and all.

It's crazy, the daughter is 84 now

Amazing!

C est vrai que la cocotte minutes a facilité la cuisine et la vie des femmes !! Merci de ce partage !!

I really do love my pressure cooker.

I learn how to bake and sew in Home Economics. While my mother could cook, she could not sew. I became her seamstress.

BRINGS BACK A WHOLE LOT OF MEMORIES FOR ME🙏🙏I WASN'T HERE YET,BUT MY MOM+DAD WERE🌹🌹💝💝🙏🙏👫⭐⭐.

My grandma never let me in the kitchen when she was using the pressure cooker

5:23 "Laura is my girlfriend. Jack is her brother. A nice boy. If you like boys" Very progressive for these times😂

i always buy frozen veg , it's cheaper and faster to cook , it still has its vitamins, better than no veg at all , at least with frozen veg it wont go bad . you can freeze fresh veg too if you blanch first , when i freeze foods i use a straw to suck air out of the freezer bag before freezing . even home made wedges are best blanched cooled then frozen and in airtight freezer bag , with or without seasoning , the best hack to save money is blanch food before freezing it , dont forget that straw to suck the air out first , your giving your lungs exercise too , its a win win .

Food looks so delicious 😋 moms/families took pride when it came to dinner. My mom did. I was a child in late 60’s thru 70’s and as a family we all ate together in the dining room. Not like today, many families eat at different times.

Spring Byington, I adore her, love her voice, December Bride, I remember that show when I was a kid

“A normal amount of common sense and a minimum amount of cooking imagination”…Wow!

My mother became impatient and opened the pressure cooker. There were potatoes on the ceiling! My mother was burned pretty badly.

So interesting to me how folks had a much more dignified way about them way back when. . .

I was born in the 80s, but o wish I could of lived back them in the simple times❤

haha here the mother says she's barely out of her thirties, and her daughter's calling her elderly. Oh, how times change. My grandma had a pressure cooker when I was a kid, but she'd never let me go in the kitchen when she was using it. My mom won't use one because she's afraid of it exploding.

I enjoyed this, thanks for uploading! :)

LOL. Like a pressure cooker saves on anything other than the amount of time it takes for the food to cook. I love pressure cookers, but they don't change the fact that you have to peel and chop stuff.

She was wiping down the roast, and did not wash her hands when she flipped it over, 🤣🤣

Its 2024 lady I don't even know how to use a pressure cooker. I took home economics in high school in the 90s.

I was one of eight kids and my mum was a widow so you can imagine. She couldn’t have lived without the pressure cooker and the sound of it hissing is the background of my childhood