Who is Christopher? Well, whoever he is, I thank him as well. I love Clara. I sure wish she was still with us but she is forever here through her videos.
I absolutely agree. This is so fascinating for me, and I'm sure going into the future, clear and well recorded video of these things will start becoming more and more rare. I appreciate your channel.
Since South Africa's economy went up in flames and everything is extremely expensive, with poor salaries, this channel has really been my light in a really dark place. Unable to work due to chronic illness, this is the only way I can help my husband and son to spend as little as possible and make everything go further. I wish I could give her a hug, she was really a sweet and wise old lady.
RayFire51 as she stated times are tough so she makes cheap food so their funds go further. Hence the internet. You’d understand that if you were educated enough and had a grade school level of reading comprehension. 🤷♂️🖕
She always says times were hard, but they ate well during the depression. She had so much gratitude. She attributes this to her mother.. Her mother must have been the strongest woman and was determined she was going to feed her family!
It's my parents I miss. They were born 1930 in Texas, during a great draught. They called Texas the Dust Bowl. My mom's parents were very poor sharecroppers. My dad's were a bit richer, they owned their land. Both parents were sent to the cotton field at 5-6 yrs old and neither one finished 9th grade. So different from how I was raised being born in 1967 and how today's kids are raised. I heard the same stories from them as Clara tells and can see a huge sameness in the cooking. Clara and my parents fried everything! But she has some recipes that my parents never had. Prob different parts of the country and different foods available.
Sounds like you never had a good grandma. I do have one just like this. She lives far away now, and I do miss her. I hope she will live as long as this lady.
@Agent Smith Kind of a mean spirited sounding thing to say, but I'm also guessing you didn't mean to sound like that, with text messages so much context can get lost in translation. Sometimes grandparent's die before meeting their grandchildren. I thankfully got to know both of my grandmother's before they passed on, but sadly never got to meet my grandfather's, they passed long before I had the chance to know them. I'm glad you still have your grandma, that's a special time in your life that you will never forget, take care bro.
@@Darkest_Soul_187 my Grammy on my dads side died while i was in infancy, my other died when i was five. She was my polish Baba and i loved her but my memories are sparse Bc i did not get a lot of time with her.
I know, so sad. I believe it's 10 years this November (2023) I still come back to this channel again and again to watch her. I never knew her, but yet I somehow miss her terribly@@umi6381
It's an italian sign when something is very good. Like ..."nothing better!" She has another video where she mentions it. It may have been the coffee with crema video.
I can't believe I found this! Ten years ago my brother and I helped my grandmothers friends with yardwork and shopping and such. They tried to give us a few bucks but we refused but they insisted on making us lunch. My brother and I raved about the food and they thought we were joking. Their families didn't want the cooking and their husbands been dead for years, so noone enjoyed their cooking. This is one of the "special dishes" one of the old ladies made for us a few times. We loved it! But with red and green peppers. That's probably in her sauce. Before she could come back with our Arenald Palmers (iceT lemonade aid) she couldn't believe that it was 3/4 gone! "Oh" she said! "I must make something more hearty for you boys, if you're that hungry!" My brother and I were all "no ma'am" "this is delicious and very filling, meaty tasting but, kinda melts into your mouth". She almost blushed, then apologized because our dessert wasn't going to be ready for 10 15 minutes. My brother is looking at me like "this was dessert!" So we slow down eating and then watch her pull "lemmon square" ( Like lemon marang pie but served warm) out of oven. Ice cold wip cream on hot lemon squares was AWESOME! I felt like she hoped we stay for another hour or two! After we did 2 hours of yardwork ,and help clean the kitchen, she got the hit and said "I know you boys move at a faster pace theses days, but thank you" Probably for the next 18 months 1 or 2x a week we were helping her with this or that until we moved her into old folks home. Never saw her again and she passed under a year.
JohnnyV Val How sweet. That was a blessing to hear you share your kindness and memories! Touching each other lives in a good way... why couldn’t the whole world be this way😢Thank God for people like you.. and her...💜
JohnnyV Val you guys made her life worth living a little longer. I’m sure you had no idea. Hell crying so hard can’t see what I’m writing. Lol. You guys did damn good
She's so adorable. I used to work at a senior citizen facility. There are a couple of seniors pass 100 yrs old. A woman who drank whiskey everyday was 102. The stories they used to tell me about their lives were very interesting.
Makes me tear up knowing that she's no longer here😢I know her family misses her terribly. I Thank God for sharing one of his Angels with us. You can't get knowledge & wisdom like that from any book. Rest In Peace Grandma Clara😇
My Depression era grandparents used to make their own sauerkraut, bread, and even beer. Clara speaks the truth. If you had any kind of a yard at all, you planted vegetables. Those in cities had it harder.
I'll attest to that, too. My great grandma grew up in the city as a kid with her two brothers and I hear all these stories from my grandma about how her mom and family ran around doing free work in restaurants for a chance for shelter or food and how they wound up almost starving to death and had gone into the countryside to get food and my great grandma's baby brother was given up for adoption because they didn't have enough food. It's so sad. :/
my grandpa grew up in the depression. He had a phobia about throwing anything away and buy anything you could imagine cause he swore he needed it or 'just in case' he had scores of anything you can imagine stored in garages and sheds.
Surviving the depression had a powerful lasting impression that is very important to understand to this day. Ask a pharmacist some time, they had to learn to watch for, and warn against depression era patients not taking some or all of their medicine because the compulsion to hoard it was so powerful.
She roller skated to work and to church. I couldn't love her anymore. I adore this beautiful soul. Her kitchen is nice snd clean so is her skin. Loooove her! Xo
"On my way to work I'd bring a knife with me," daaaaaang Clara was ready to fig-, "so I could pick dandelions on the way back to home," oooOOoooooOOOOhhhhhhh.
i have a strong feeling that her eating so simple and raw during the depression contributed to her long life. all the shit in foods today are killing us slowly update: as soon as i typed this, clara also said thats why she thinks she lived so long LOL
All the food thats out there now is killing us faster not slowly, to many chemicals also been used in food and also fizzy drinks aspartame very bad for us its an addictive substance
You said it, AND she had to roller skate to the places she wanted to get to; so there was plenty of physical exercise! This girl was so busy just trying to survive that she didn't have the time or opportunity to get the ills we have now!
Some people have good genetic trees. Heart problems have been in my family since my grandma, who was raised during the depression. A genetic condition called cardiomyopathy is running through my family. My great grandma started it. I have it and I live a healthy lifestyle. I am vegan and exercise daily, don't drink, dont smoke. My heart issue will eventually lead to needing a transplant and I did nothing to bring it on, just bad genes.
She said they ate Burdock and dandelions and those are pretty much considered superfoods nowadays.. Most food nowadays loaded with all kinds of chemicals , preservatives and other things that are so bad for us , including the high fructose corn syrup which now they are actually allowed to call fructose and it absolutely is not fructose at all .. it is synthetic and cannot get absorbed in the gut and so it bypasses the intestines and shoots straight to the liver and damages the liver causing what is called fatty liver. High fructose corn syrup also makes you really really hungry ; so if you eat food with it then it can make you hungry and if you eat more food that has it then you get even hungrier. Some of these other products for instance the aspartame somebody mentioned here is a neurotoxin and it's really bad for the brain and the neurology. When I go grocery shopping if I have to buy anything that's pre-packaged or in a box or container or jar or anything like that I always have to read the ingredients and more and more I'm getting disgusted because it is ridiculous all the chemicals.. so I won't buy them . Even Breads and pancake mix and cookies have aluminum bisulfate in them and we should not have any aluminum in our Foods because aluminum contributes to Alzheimer's and other neurological problems. I can't believe how many people don't even read the ingredients and have no idea all the chemicals , preservatives and dyes that are going in their body and all they care about is that it tastes good.
Clara: You can always add, but you can't take away Also Clara: *adds too much oil so spoons extra out* Lesson learned: If there's a problem, you fix it. You don't double down and pretend it wasn't a mistake. It's okay if you add too much. Clara was an absolute treasure and you're so lucky to have had a woman like her to look up to
SaccharinSweet123 she lived too long and had been through a lot, too much oil is the least of the thing she’d be ashamed of. On topic, i wish mushroom is a common market food here where im from. The only one i had was from a can. The texture is kinda terrible but i like the taste although i can imagine then being so much better when not canned.
My Dad is 95, almost 96. He was born in England though, and he never told me much about what he used to eat when he was a kid. He's trying his best to soldier on but Alzheimers is taking it's toll now, lately he has been looking worried and increasingly confused. Up until a few years ago he was as fit and strong as someone 30 years younger. When we lose the best old people like Clara, the world becomes a dimmer place.
@@crispygrippers1044 Regretfully no, he passed away just a week before his 96th birthday. It wsa a very sad time for us but he had done his duty and more. Doesn't mean we don't miss him, but I remember the million conversations we had and everywhere we went together and it's alright. He earned his rest. Couldn't have asked for a better Dad or to have known a better human being.
I know I lost my mom three years ago on mother's day. She was a lot like Clara only difference really was that mom was french.she was born and raised in the states . Western Mass.
My parents weren't around when I was a kid; this lady taught me how to feed myself with whatever I could find in my home, steal, or ask for. Thank you for these videos. I'm a better man for it.
I have been a fan of Clara's now for a little over a year now, and I happen to watch this video last night. Well about a hour ago when I got home from a 13 hr day on the road, I decided to take some cherry tomatoes and some cut up mushrooms I was using on my salads and decided to try this. I was quite skeptical something so simple could be good. I seasoned with salt and pepper, a little garlic powder, a little onion, and about a 1/4 cup of tomatoe sauce.....cooked for about 20min until everything was nice and soft and the moisture cooked off....next thing I knew my lips were smacking my fore head and had to take my shoes off so I could wiggle my toes this was soooo good!!! :) :) :) Love you Clara thank you for this! ----> ya got a happier and slightly fatter countryboy here..lol
Once this generation is gone, I feel like history is gonna be gone also. I didn't even know this woman, but yet I feel close to her. I have to watch her videos everyday, just to say Hi!!
Funny it's 225 am I found her.. love her videos n her little stories. I never had grandparents I'd like to imagine they'd be a bit like this sweetheart. Im so sorry to hear she's passed away. Thankfully you've created these videos for future generations. 😊
Watching this reminds me of my own grandmother so much. She grew up in the depression too and cut things the exact same way in her hands because they couldn't afford a cutting board. I miss her a lot, but it makes me smile. Thanks for this
Has Clara passed on I love her videos my mother grew up during the depression era I didn't know if she is gone from this plain or not thought I would ask.
My mother-in-law used to talk about her love of rolling skating as a girl. She was a very sweet, Catholic lady. She was a good cook too. Thank you for posting these gems.
My mom talked about roller skating when she was a girl also. She used to sing a song, "I've got a brand new pair of roller skates. You've got a brand new key." Because you had to tighten roller skates around your shoes with a key.
@@flowertrue , I know that song, sung it as a teen . It would come on the radio and my mom hated it. It had some underlying meanings. But roller skating, We went every weekend, to the roller rink or on the freshly black topped driveway. Thanx for that memory
I really like this channel. I found it, quite literally, a few hours ago, and I'm already sad that there won't be any new content. :( Rest in peace, Clara.
My Nanna(my mum's foster mum) is 70, my grandmother(my step dad's mum) is 74, my great grandmother(my nanna's mum) is turning 93 later this year and my other grandmother died in her 80's when I was around 6 years old she was my biological dad's mum
I'm so sorry I only found Clara now. What a beautiful lady. I love her simplistic cooking, I am 46 and my mother raised my family on simple whole foods. She was raised in. The depression and she would never have had the courage to make clips like this, God bless Clara have a cuppa with my mum xoxoxo
My mom, born in 1925, went thru the depression. Life extreme. Told me of eating potatoes one day and saving the peelings for the next day. Grandma, born 18?? something, did all the canning. They were more fortunate than most because of owning a farm. When WW2 came along, everything rationed and couldn't get tires. Rubber saved for troops. Scripp paper given out for things like sugar, salt, flour, etc. Food lines were 'hours' long. It's coming again so look for it. Matt. 24:21, 22. This will occur just before Armageddon. I'm not the 'shove-it-down-your-throat-type' .. but I do read. Heads up, people.
I make this all the time - with mushrooms on clearance, you have a meal for a couple of people. Use some bread for the liquid and you have a delicacy in our house for less than $2 total. I realize that a lot of the depression era foods on this channel, including the dandelion salad, are common meals in the area where I grew up simply because poverty never left us.
Thank you Clara for your amazing "Great Depression Recipies" because we are now living in this depression,where food is so expensive ,and you shown us that we can survive on that, instead eat junk food as a alternative .
I also love the little thing she did at the end when she clicked her cheek and smiled! her laugh and personality are infectious! how am I just finding this wonderful Nana now? she is a true angel.
I love the simplicity of her meals. I think it does the digestive system a lot of good to keep this in mind. I've been on a simple life kick the last few months and it helps me remember that we actually don't need as much as we think. Live life to the fullest by being alive and showing some gratitude 😉
Dear God, she makes me miss my grandmother! What a beautiful memory this family has. I wish i thought of doing something like this. My grandmother not only made it through the depression but took in other family members during the depression and then foster children later on in life. One of her famous recipes was pasta with meat sauce ( not hamburger ) beef cost to much she used hot dogs! She made dish soap with all the left over pieces of soap in the house They where true homesteaders they had a massive garden and raised chickens, ducks and rabbits. Funny they never turned anyone from their table and there was always just enough. Thank you for the beautiful videos.
Hi, just saw your note. My grandparents had 3 of their own, 3 of from a cousin that was too ill to take care of her own children and then took in foster children 8 total and had me the one grandchild over all the time. The food was always there. Crazy, its just me, my boyfriend and my last boy heading to college this fall and i cant seem to make ends meet. I wish i had some of that olde magic!
Both sets of my Grandparents from both sides lived through the Depression. You don't understand inventive cooking and preparation of just a few basic ingredients and have it taste delicious unless you knew someone like this. May God rest both of their souls and Clara's as well. I feel kind of sad now for some reason, I guess memories did it to me. I say may God Bless all who are righteous and may He open the eyes of the rest so me ALL might meet in Heaven one day. Amen
Tjese videos are timeless. No matter how many years have passed they are wonderful and VERY educational. Bless her soul and thank you so much for having recorded and posted. ❤❤❤
Watching Clara puts me back in the kitchen with my Nonna when I was a kid. Thank you so much!! To have my kids watch and learn what I learned is fantastic. Absolutely fantastic!! Thank you sooo much!!!
I love you, Clara. You remind me of my own grandmother who lived through the same times you did, as you did. They had a farm so they didn't suffer like the city folks did. And she canned anything that would hold still long enough to be put in a jar!
Since Clara's passing, I still come by and watch her videos. So thankful she shared her amazing stories to the world. God bless you Clara, you are loved by many.
I looked into it because that would have been a heck of a trick. unfortunately it seems to just be a folklore :( >"Poisonous mushrooms blacken silver." - None of the known mushroom toxins have a reaction with silver. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_poisoning#Folk_traditions
I literally love this woman. I feel so comforted and relaxed watching her, and her food looks great. And she’s so funny. And I love her stories. Thank you. 😊
I am so grateful that my mamaw and i are so close. shes 79, I'm 29. We'll sit and talk on the phone for 45 minutes; we used to sit on her porch and talk about the "good old days" when i got off the bus after school. She'd joke about how she'd get in trouble at the hamburger joint she worked at for pressing down the hamburger patties so they'd fit on the bun. Her manager said she was squishing the juices out. I do the same thing!!! People just don't appreciate the elderly and how much we can learn from them....
lele jujube I love to read your thoughts about you and your grandma! I'm a grandmother of 5 boys and I love them deeply. The eldest one lost his grandma (on his mothers side) and it was hard for him to handle. Therefore I try to spend as much time with as I can. We started to travel together every October when he have semester from school. We talk with each other and I write him (paper)-letters. Don't you never stop gratitude your grandma,you must be her life! Wish you and your grandma all the best! Regards from a Swedish grandma ❤
LeLe Jujube that's really nice that you have such a close relationship with your grandmother. Eat up everything she tells you. My mom is gone now but I'm the one she shared her stories with, and I'm so grateful for the memories.
I wouldn't try the trick to use a coin to tell if mushrooms are poisonous nowadays though. more than likely the coin she used was silver and reacted differently than a coin would now that was a different base metal.
Even if it's silver, you can't trust that trick. The myth that poisons turn silver black was believed in a number of cultures, but there isn't any science behind it. If you aren't familiar with ALL the mushrooms in your area - the good ones AND the bad ones - don't eat ANY mushrooms you've picked yourself. With some mushrooms, by the time you notice you're feeling sick, it can already be too late for the doctors to save your life.
The Sinful Fangirl There are mushrooms with names like "deathcap" and "destroying angel" which contain an incredibly deadly toxin. You don't want to take any chances when it comes to mushrooms.
You can keep track of the state of the economy by whether Ms. Clara's videos are on the algorithm again. Thanks a million for the series and sharing your grandmother with us.
Bacon grease makes the best popcorn. If you are poor... save your bacon grease. (jar in fridge) Good for frying potatoes & onions. Use a pat to flavor soups.
Yes, thank you for all the recordings of Clara! It’s wonderful because it’s like a visit with her❤. I watch them, I share them and I bought her wonderful cookbook!! It’s wonderful to watch and to read her stories ❤️
Amen, Amen❤. Such a lesson to hold onto in these times.I am thankful for my grandparents and aunts, uncles to being wonderful examples. I don't regret how I was raised.
Sweet Clara, what a gem to the world! Thank you so much for making these precious videos of Clara! Since I have found the first video, I have been hooked! I am finally ordering her book and can't wait to see all the amazing recipes! It is amazing how your grandmother talks about the worst of times yet always manages to speak so positive! She was such a humble and sweet lady, appreciating what nature provided for her family during those hard times and made them feel off much better. I am sad that Clara is not around anymore! I love her cooking just as much as her stories and memories she shared in the videos! Thank you so very much for giving us the gift of "sweet Clara"! R.I.P. sweet lady! ❤🕊️🌠
I love watching this sweet woman cook..... reminds me of when I was young, hanging out in the kitchen watching my grandma magically make feasts from whatever was in the fridge... it was amazing and delicious... God bless you Ms. Clara.... RIP
She makes me feel so, very thankful for my grandma. I was curious at one of her videos, and have now seen at least 5. And she just makes me feel thankful for my grandma because she's still living, cooking, and full of stories to tell. I sometimes feel as if I haven't appreciated her enough and taken a lot of things she does for granted. But I think that now I really do want to make sure I spend more time with her.
RIP darling. I am the child (well, I'm a 67 yr old fart of a child ;) of a depression era. Mother was much like this dear lady. Her divorced mother raised 3 children (with no child support) working as a waitress in an upscale eatery. She was a master at making delish dishes that cost next to nothing. Our family was equally poor. She managed to feed a family of 7 (including fathers parents) on a huge gardens in the summer and bought beef and milk from a local farmer. All summer the kids were expected to work in the garden, which was actually fun for me, and help mother can veggies and fruit. We would also go berry, apple and mushroom picking, for jam, pies, or whatever. Nothing ever went to waste. But the wonderful point I want to make is she did so on next to no extra money and none of us went to bed hungry. :) I still cook everything homemade, but can no longer manage a garden. The one thing I hate most are the tomatoes, in cans or "fresh" from the stores. They all taste like cardboard. I still remember how darn good mothers canned tomatoes tasted, compared to store bought canned tomatoes. Sorry for rambling here, but I wanted to say that mother taught us that if a mushroom top could be peeled, it was good to eat. Anyway, no one ever got sick, so there must have been something to it. RIP mother.
Mad Hatter Goes to show that anyone can have the fondest of memories, in the hardest of times! People should be more thankful, nowadays. Thanks for sharing!
Mad Hatter Thanks for sharing. I agree with you about tomatoes too. Ain't nothing like a home grown garden tomato in the summer! The store bought look like them but have absolutely nothing on their flavor
+Mad Hatter What a lovely story! I can feel your pride and happiness from those days. Too many people sitting about expecting handouts these days its disgusting. Seen you around in money vids so it was a nice surprise to see you here. I love cooking and all my meals are also home-made. Keep cooking and I hope you have lots of lovely friends and relatives to enjoy your efforts :)
Miss Clara, you're a beautiful gem and such a blessing and inspiration to all that watch or you!! I love fried mushrooms, they are packed with protein and nutrients. PS: If you wash them with water, your going to have rubbery mushrooms. You always wipe them with a clean towel, and never ever salt them until the very end of cooking. The salt draws out too much moisture and will make them dry.
My Nana used to do that same gesture with her fingers and corner of her mouth when something was tasty, done well. Seeing her do that at the end of the video brought s tear to my eye :)
Christopher, you’ve done the world a great service by recording Clara for us. I’d like to express my gratitude.
Who is Christopher? Well, whoever he is, I thank him as well. I love Clara. I sure wish she was still with us but she is forever here through her videos.
@@HulaShack1 Clara’s grandson who produced these videos. What an amazing job he did to let Clara live on for us.
I absolutely agree. This is so fascinating for me, and I'm sure going into the future, clear and well recorded video of these things will start becoming more and more rare. I appreciate your channel.
Amen!!
Thank U! 🥰💞
I'm so glad Clara was able to leave her presence here on the internet before she passed. I love watching her old videos!
me to Rip Clara
Me too. What a do!!!
Me too, she reminds me of my mama :) May they both RIP.
hallbe me to i learn a lot from her and other from her time
Nothing like grandma's cooking
I like the fact that she includes to say" I hope no one has to go through that". What a genuine caring woman.
Clara was a beautiful soul and strong survivor for 96y.
"You use common sense. I don't measure nothin'"
Damn Clara's a straight up cooking savage.
Thug life cookin granny
😂😂😂😂 She would be proud of this commentary
I never measure anything when I'm cooking. When you're an experienced cook you just kind of know how much of everything to add.
she actually measures a lot. but there are a lot of other reasons as to why she's a cooking savage.
she actually measured a lot. but she's a cooking savage for lots of reasons.
Since South Africa's economy went up in flames and everything is extremely expensive, with poor salaries, this channel has really been my light in a really dark place. Unable to work due to chronic illness, this is the only way I can help my husband and son to spend as little as possible and make everything go further. I wish I could give her a hug, she was really a sweet and wise old lady.
i hope you're doing better now
Can't eat but you have internet tho lol
RayFire51 why are you so rude ?
RayFire51 as she stated times are tough so she makes cheap food so their funds go further. Hence the internet. You’d understand that if you were educated enough and had a grade school level of reading comprehension. 🤷♂️🖕
RayFire51 there’s a thing here in South Africa called “free WiFi” ... available at many places.
She always says times were hard, but they ate well during the depression. She had so much gratitude. She attributes this to her mother.. Her mother must have been the strongest woman and was determined she was going to feed her family!
“I think the onion is older than me” 🤣 Omg she’s so precious god bless her. She had a beautiful life. She makes me really miss my grandmother ♥️
She is just a sweetheart. I would have loved to have her as a grandma.
It's my parents I miss. They were born 1930 in Texas, during a great draught. They called Texas the Dust Bowl. My mom's parents were very poor sharecroppers. My dad's were a bit richer, they owned their land. Both parents were sent to the cotton field at 5-6 yrs old and neither one finished 9th grade. So different from how I was raised being born in 1967 and how today's kids are raised.
I heard the same stories from them as Clara tells and can see a huge sameness in the cooking. Clara and my parents fried everything! But she has some recipes that my parents never had. Prob different parts of the country and different foods available.
I see my grandma too when I watch her.
Clara nourishes my soul and helps my anxiety. Especially when she cuts vegetables. I wish i had known her in real life, what an absolute gem.
Me too 🙏🏻
Sounds like you never had a good grandma. I do have one just like this. She lives far away now, and I do miss her. I hope she will live as long as this lady.
@Agent Smith Kind of a mean spirited sounding thing to say, but I'm also guessing you didn't mean to sound like that, with text messages so much context can get lost in translation. Sometimes grandparent's die before meeting their grandchildren. I thankfully got to know both of my grandmother's before they passed on, but sadly never got to meet my grandfather's, they passed long before I had the chance to know them. I'm glad you still have your grandma, that's a special time in your life that you will never forget, take care bro.
@@Darkest_Soul_187 my Grammy on my dads side died while i was in infancy, my other died when i was five. She was my polish Baba and i loved her but my memories are sparse Bc i did not get a lot of time with her.
@@glassandhoney Well I'm Polish too, so that's cool! I'm sorry you didn't get to know your grandmas better and spend more time with them.
I know she's been gone awhile but I love watching her over and over RIP dear Clara
...oh😮 she's already gone? What a treasure that she has left a gem for us. Thank you Clara❤
I know, so sad. I believe it's 10 years this November (2023) I still come back to this channel again and again to watch her. I never knew her, but yet I somehow miss her terribly@@umi6381
Me too❤❤❤
That little pinch of her cheek at the end was so precios!! She just melts my heart!
Yeesssss!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Omg me too!!!!!
It's an italian sign when something is very good. Like ..."nothing better!" She has another video where she mentions it. It may have been the coffee with crema video.
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I can't believe I found this! Ten years ago my brother and I helped my grandmothers friends with yardwork and shopping and such. They tried to give us a few bucks but we refused but they insisted on making us lunch.
My brother and I raved about the food and they thought we were joking. Their families didn't want the cooking and their husbands been dead for years, so noone enjoyed their cooking.
This is one of the "special dishes" one of the old ladies made for us a few times. We loved it! But with red and green peppers. That's probably in her sauce. Before she could come back with our Arenald Palmers (iceT lemonade aid) she couldn't believe that it was 3/4 gone! "Oh" she said! "I must make something more hearty for you boys, if you're that hungry!"
My brother and I were all "no ma'am" "this is delicious and very filling, meaty tasting but, kinda melts into your mouth". She almost blushed, then apologized because our dessert wasn't going to be ready for 10 15 minutes. My brother is looking at me like "this was dessert!" So we slow down eating and then watch her pull "lemmon square" ( Like lemon marang pie but served warm) out of oven.
Ice cold wip cream on hot lemon squares was AWESOME! I felt like she hoped we stay for another hour or two! After we did 2 hours of yardwork ,and help clean the kitchen, she got the hit and said "I know you boys move at a faster pace theses days, but thank you"
Probably for the next 18 months 1 or 2x a week we were helping her with this or that until we moved her into old folks home. Never saw her again and she passed under a year.
JohnnyV Val How sweet. That was a blessing to hear you share your kindness and memories! Touching each other lives in a good way... why couldn’t the whole world be this way😢Thank God for people like you.. and her...💜
You boys made her happy !!!
Aww this story is so bittersweet it made me tear up. Bless her soul and bless you guys.
Then she passed because she had nothing else to live for. Interesting and sad how we go through life.
JohnnyV Val you guys made her life worth living a little longer. I’m sure you had no idea. Hell crying so hard can’t see what I’m writing. Lol. You guys did damn good
She's so adorable. I used to work at a senior citizen facility. There are a couple of seniors pass 100 yrs old. A woman who drank whiskey everyday was 102. The stories they used to tell me about their lives were very interesting.
My Grandad made his mid nineties, every evening at about 9 he would have a tiny tot of good Brandy.. I'm sure it did him a world of good.
Makes me tear up knowing that she's no longer here😢I know her family misses her terribly. I Thank God for sharing one of his Angels with us. You can't get knowledge & wisdom like that from any book. Rest In Peace Grandma Clara😇
I wonder if they kept her little house, with that neat little kitchen and her cute stove as is. She was adorable 😍.
@@babymend8980 Seeing as how much her grandson adored her, it is possible. He does dedicate himself to keeping her memory alive after all.
Thank you to the person(s) who recorded her knowledge before she left us..
It was her grandson doing all the filming.
That’s the Italian way.. we don’t go
hungry no matter if there’s a depression or not...lol. What a sweetheart she is😍
Thank you Chris😘😘😘
@@wandahall4435 , thanks Wanda
I just love her sweet little laugh. And then when she pretends to twist her cheek and smiles! Lol. Such an absolute sweetheart!!
My Depression era grandparents used to make their own sauerkraut, bread, and even beer. Clara speaks the truth. If you had any kind of a yard at all, you planted vegetables. Those in cities had it harder.
+GizmoBee1702 My grandfather lived in Chicago during the depression. It was terrible according to him.
I'll attest to that, too. My great grandma grew up in the city as a kid with her two brothers and I hear all these stories from my grandma about how her mom and family ran around doing free work in restaurants for a chance for shelter or food and how they wound up almost starving to death and had gone into the countryside to get food and my great grandma's baby brother was given up for adoption because they didn't have enough food. It's so sad. :/
my grandpa grew up in the depression. He had a phobia about throwing anything away and buy anything you could imagine cause he swore he needed it or 'just in case' he had scores of anything you can imagine stored in garages and sheds.
Bless his heart .. he 'shrouded' himself in a kind of security later on that he had no control over when younger, and going thru that horrible time.
Surviving the depression had a powerful lasting impression that is very important to understand to this day. Ask a pharmacist some time, they had to learn to watch for, and warn against depression era patients not taking some or all of their medicine because the compulsion to hoard it was so powerful.
She roller skated to work and to church. I couldn't love her anymore. I adore this beautiful soul. Her kitchen is nice snd clean so is her skin. Loooove her! Xo
Anymore and any more have different meanings.
@@SkylarPro yawn! If you can’t read just say it! 🤡
"On my way to work I'd bring a knife with me," daaaaaang Clara was ready to fig-, "so I could pick dandelions on the way back to home," oooOOoooooOOOOhhhhhhh.
haha! I was wondering where she was going with that as well......
Yes! Especially when she said she was going out at night. Oh what different times.
Now people take knives to work to shank each other.
I thought the same lol
🤣
Haha, I like the little thing she did with her cheek, after she tasted it! She'a so cute!
yes my grandma did this too but don't understand what it means
The food was so good it flipped her smile switch.
@@JC124DISCORD thank you! i never knew what that meant. lol
ExcelsiorElectric it’s an Italian gesture that means delicious
Haha loved it!
i have a strong feeling that her eating so simple and raw during the depression contributed to her long life. all the shit in foods today are killing us slowly
update: as soon as i typed this, clara also said thats why she thinks she lived so long LOL
I agree. Thankful to have found her videos as
well. What a sweet soul.
All the food thats out there now is killing us faster not slowly, to many chemicals also been used in food and also fizzy drinks aspartame very bad for us its an addictive substance
You said it, AND she had to roller skate to the places she wanted to get to; so there was plenty of physical exercise! This girl was so busy just trying to survive that she didn't have the time or opportunity to get the ills we have now!
Some people have good genetic trees. Heart problems have been in my family since my grandma, who was raised during the depression. A genetic condition called cardiomyopathy is running through my family. My great grandma started it. I have it and I live a healthy lifestyle. I am vegan and exercise daily, don't drink, dont smoke. My heart issue will eventually lead to needing a transplant and I did nothing to bring it on, just bad genes.
She said they ate Burdock and dandelions and those are pretty much considered superfoods nowadays..
Most food nowadays loaded with all kinds of chemicals , preservatives and other things that are so bad for us , including the high fructose corn syrup which now they are actually allowed to call fructose and it absolutely is not fructose at all .. it is synthetic and cannot get absorbed in the gut and so it bypasses the intestines and shoots straight to the liver and damages the liver causing what is called fatty liver.
High fructose corn syrup also makes you really really hungry ; so if you eat food with it then it can make you hungry and if you eat more food that has it then you get even hungrier.
Some of these other products for instance the aspartame somebody mentioned here is a neurotoxin and it's really bad for the brain and the neurology.
When I go grocery shopping if I have to buy anything that's pre-packaged or in a box or container or jar or anything like that I always have to read the ingredients and more and more I'm getting disgusted because it is ridiculous all the chemicals.. so I won't buy them .
Even Breads and pancake mix and cookies have aluminum bisulfate in them and we should not have any aluminum in our Foods because aluminum contributes to Alzheimer's and other neurological problems.
I can't believe how many people don't even read the ingredients and have no idea all the chemicals , preservatives and dyes that are going in their body and all they care about is that it tastes good.
Clara: You can always add, but you can't take away
Also Clara: *adds too much oil so spoons extra out*
Lesson learned: If there's a problem, you fix it. You don't double down and pretend it wasn't a mistake. It's okay if you add too much.
Clara was an absolute treasure and you're so lucky to have had a woman like her to look up to
SaccharinSweet123 she lived too long and had been through a lot, too much oil is the least of the thing she’d be ashamed of.
On topic, i wish mushroom is a common market food here where im from. The only one i had was from a can. The texture is kinda terrible but i like the taste although i can imagine then being so much better when not canned.
Why did you use past tense? Has she passed away? Please don’t tell me she has. She has? She has? 🙁
Probably she has. I did not notice the video is from 11 years ago.
@@paris2070 she sadly passed nov 2013
@@paris2070 at the proud age of 98 however
My Dad is 95, almost 96. He was born in England though, and he never told me much about what he used to eat when he was a kid. He's trying his best to soldier on but Alzheimers is taking it's toll now, lately he has been looking worried and increasingly confused. Up until a few years ago he was as fit and strong as someone 30 years younger. When we lose the best old people like Clara, the world becomes a dimmer place.
I'm so sorry for you. My father, at 80 is going through the same thing. I wish you and your family all the best.
I need to know, Is he still around?
@@crispygrippers1044 Regretfully no, he passed away just a week before his 96th birthday. It wsa a very sad time for us but he had done his duty and more. Doesn't mean we don't miss him, but I remember the million conversations we had and everywhere we went together and it's alright. He earned his rest. Couldn't have asked for a better Dad or to have known a better human being.
TheVanillatech aww my condolences.. he seemed very lovely to have around.
I know I lost my mom three years ago on mother's day. She was a lot like Clara only difference really was that mom was french.she was born and raised in the states . Western Mass.
3:47 "I think the onion is older than me". I burted into tear because of laughing 😂 Grandma is the best
My parents weren't around when I was a kid; this lady taught me how to feed myself with whatever I could find in my home, steal, or ask for. Thank you for these videos. I'm a better man for it.
So nice to hear this! Glad ur alive!🎉
I have been a fan of Clara's now for a little over a year now, and I happen to watch this video last night. Well about a hour ago when I got home from a 13 hr day on the road, I decided to take some cherry tomatoes and some cut up mushrooms I was using on my salads and decided to try this. I was quite skeptical something so simple could be good. I seasoned with salt and pepper, a little garlic powder, a little onion, and about a 1/4 cup of tomatoe sauce.....cooked for about 20min until everything was nice and soft and the moisture cooked off....next thing I knew my lips were smacking my fore head and had to take my shoes off so I could wiggle my toes this was soooo good!!! :) :) :) Love you Clara thank you for this! ----> ya got a happier and slightly fatter countryboy here..lol
My Damn Channel 😄
My Damn Channel I'm glad you made a version of the dish & enjoyed it. Sounds delish.🍄
My Damn Channel 😆 has
That's awesome. ... Does anyone use can mushrooms?
So Clara still lives with us!
It’s literally 2:30 in the morning and I just found her channel and now I’m watching her cook and crying at the same time 😭😭
Mee too it breaks my heart too. what a wonderful woman
I don't blame you..i miss those precious people!
Once this generation is gone, I feel like history is gonna be gone also. I didn't even know this woman, but yet I feel close to her. I have to watch her videos everyday, just to say Hi!!
Why would you be crying?
Funny it's 225 am I found her.. love her videos n her little stories.
I never had grandparents I'd like to imagine they'd be a bit like this sweetheart. Im so sorry to hear she's passed away. Thankfully you've created these videos for future generations. 😊
Watching this reminds me of my own grandmother so much. She grew up in the depression too and cut things the exact same way in her hands because they couldn't afford a cutting board. I miss her a lot, but it makes me smile. Thanks for this
Found your videos tonight Clara, you beautiful soul. May you rest in peace Angel! Xoxox
Has Clara passed on I love her videos my mother grew up during the depression era I didn't know if she is gone from this plain or not thought I would ask.
@@jeffarp7409 she passed away at age 98
Torii A. Wow 98 she is in Heaven for sure 🕊💫☦️
nice ass.
My mother-in-law used to talk about her love of rolling skating as a girl. She was a very sweet, Catholic lady. She was a good cook too. Thank you for posting these gems.
My mom talked about roller skating when she was a girl also. She used to sing a song, "I've got a brand new pair of roller skates. You've got a brand new key." Because you had to tighten roller skates around your shoes with a key.
@@flowertrue , I know that song, sung it as a teen . It would come on the radio and my mom hated it. It had some underlying meanings. But roller skating, We went every weekend, to the roller rink or on the freshly black topped driveway.
Thanx for that memory
I have literally been binge watching her videos. May she be in the lords glory. She reminds my of my abuelita 👵
I really like this channel. I found it, quite literally, a few hours ago, and I'm already sad that there won't be any new content. :( Rest in peace, Clara.
I will re-watch these. Clara is soothing to,listen too
Same! I just found this tonight, was super sad to see this was all from 8+ years ago 😞
R.I.P
You are wrong! She uploaded a new video today
@@twinevideos386 look through the older uploads. She died in 2013.
She is the most adorable human on the face of the earth!! She reminds me of my 90 year old great grandmother.... God bless Her..
My Nanna(my mum's foster mum) is 70, my grandmother(my step dad's mum) is 74, my great grandmother(my nanna's mum) is turning 93 later this year and my other grandmother died in her 80's when I was around 6 years old she was my biological dad's mum
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Clara is so wonderful to watch, even if she is now just watching over us
Watching Clara's videos gives me peace from this world, even if it's only 5 or 10 minutes!
what a treasure
hey so are you.
It's 2023 and despite everything going wrong with the world, visiting Clara puts me in a better perspective of what truly matters ❤
I'm so sorry I only found Clara now. What a beautiful lady. I love her simplistic cooking, I am 46 and my mother raised my family on simple whole foods. She was raised in. The depression and she would never have had the courage to make clips like this, God bless Clara have a cuppa with my mum xoxoxo
My mom, born in 1925, went thru the depression. Life extreme. Told me of eating potatoes one day and saving the peelings for the next day. Grandma,
born 18?? something, did all the canning. They were more fortunate than most because of owning a farm. When WW2 came along, everything rationed
and couldn't get tires. Rubber saved for troops. Scripp paper given out for things like sugar, salt, flour, etc. Food lines were 'hours' long. It's coming again
so look for it. Matt. 24:21, 22. This will occur just before Armageddon. I'm not
the 'shove-it-down-your-throat-type' .. but I do read. Heads up, people.
Chrystal Marco why wasn't the last depression the occurrence before Armageddon?
Molly Mayor Hello!! Why be sry? She’s still here for u to learn from
@@chrystalmarco8281 same question as @stancexpunks
Just love listening to Clara talk..she is relaxing,and has the best sense of humor..We will miss you Clara:)
Now it is a tradition for me to watch a video of hers before bedtime.. it is just so relaxing and calming.
I make this all the time - with mushrooms on clearance, you have a meal for a couple of people. Use some bread for the liquid and you have a delicacy in our house for less than $2 total. I realize that a lot of the depression era foods on this channel, including the dandelion salad, are common meals in the area where I grew up simply because poverty never left us.
Thank you Clara for your amazing "Great Depression Recipies" because we are now living in this depression,where food is so expensive ,and you shown us that we can survive on that, instead eat junk food as a alternative .
Maria Teresa Goddard you got that right. I'm appreciative of these videos also. We need simpler times again.....
Maria Teresa Goddard has
u remind me of my grandma so much cooking. rest in peace we all love u
We do
Her mother was quite resourceful!
I also love the little thing she did at the end when she clicked her cheek and smiled! her laugh and personality are infectious! how am I just finding this wonderful Nana now? she is a true angel.
We love Clara. She was such a blessing to the world. Thank you Christopher.
She reminds me so much of my Grandmother god bless them and thanks for keeping this channel alive.
Omg this is the purest channel here. I love it so much.
I love the simplicity of her meals. I think it does the digestive system a lot of good to keep this in mind. I've been on a simple life kick the last few months and it helps me remember that we actually don't need as much as we think. Live life to the fullest by being alive and showing some gratitude 😉
Dear God, she makes me miss my grandmother! What a beautiful memory this family has. I wish i thought of doing something like this. My grandmother not only made it through the depression but took in other family members during the depression and then foster children later on in life.
One of her famous recipes was pasta with meat sauce ( not hamburger ) beef cost to much she used hot dogs!
She made dish soap with all the left over pieces of soap in the house
They where true homesteaders they had a massive garden and raised chickens, ducks and rabbits.
Funny they never turned anyone from their table and there was always just enough.
Thank you for the beautiful videos.
Hi, just saw your note. My grandparents had 3 of their own, 3 of from a cousin that was too ill to take care of her own children and then took in foster children 8 total and had me the one grandchild over all the time. The food was always there. Crazy, its just me, my boyfriend and my last boy heading to college this fall and i cant seem to make ends meet. I wish i had some of that olde magic!
Both sets of my Grandparents from both sides lived through the Depression. You don't understand inventive cooking and preparation of just a few basic ingredients and have it taste delicious unless you knew someone like this. May God rest both of their souls and Clara's as well. I feel kind of sad now for some reason, I guess memories did it to me. I say may God Bless all who are righteous and may He open the eyes of the rest so me ALL might meet in Heaven one day. Amen
Bla bla bla...
Tjese videos are timeless. No matter how many years have passed they are wonderful and VERY educational. Bless her soul and thank you so much for having recorded and posted. ❤❤❤
Watching Clara puts me back in the kitchen with my Nonna when I was a kid. Thank you so much!!
To have my kids watch and learn what I learned is fantastic.
Absolutely fantastic!!
Thank you sooo much!!!
The little gesture she did after she tasted her finished creation was really unexpected and adorable. It really made me smile :)
I really enjoy watching Clara and will make this recipe. This helps me with our new reality as it is March 23, 2020. Be kind and stay safe.
Omfg can't believe it's boutta be march 2021 & we're still struggling with Covid 😭😔
I keep watching all of her videos because she’s so lovely and she reminds me of my grandma, I miss her so much.. I don’t even like mushrooms
I am reminded of my grandmother, who has passed away. I miss her so much. I have her handwritten cookbook that I grew up on.
I love you, Clara. You remind me of my own grandmother who lived through the same times you did, as you did. They had a farm so they didn't suffer like the city folks did. And she canned anything that would hold still long enough to be put in a jar!
How am I just finding this now? I LOVE THIS WOMAN!!!! She’s so interesting and sweet! I want to hang out with her all day, talk, cook, and eat!
Ah, it makes me sad hearing her say “I hope no one has to go through that today.” Especially with current day events. Sadly, we’re getting there.
I love watching her videos it brings comfort to me she's such a lovely soul
Why do i find watching Clara's cooking more comforting than watching pros on tv?
Since Clara's passing, I still come by and watch her videos. So thankful she shared her amazing stories to the world. God bless you Clara, you are loved by many.
Holy crap, this is a time machine. I thought my grandmother was the only one who did the quarterr in the pot
Does it really work? Is it accurate?
it has to be a silver quarter, the new ones don't tarnish.
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I looked into it because that would have been a heck of a trick. unfortunately it seems to just be a folklore :(
>"Poisonous mushrooms blacken silver." - None of the known mushroom toxins have a reaction with silver.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_poisoning#Folk_traditions
They used all silver quarters back then , wonder how that worked to tell if it was poison
I literally love this woman. I feel so comforted and relaxed watching her, and her food looks great. And she’s so funny. And I love her stories. Thank you. 😊
I am so grateful that my mamaw and i are so close. shes 79, I'm 29. We'll sit and talk on the phone for 45 minutes; we used to sit on her porch and talk about the "good old days" when i got off the bus after school. She'd joke about how she'd get in trouble at the hamburger joint she worked at for pressing down the hamburger patties so they'd fit on the bun. Her manager said she was squishing the juices out. I do the same thing!!! People just don't appreciate the elderly and how much we can learn from them....
lele jujube I love to read your thoughts about you and your grandma! I'm a grandmother of 5 boys and I love them deeply. The eldest one lost his grandma (on his mothers side) and it was hard for him to handle. Therefore I try to spend as much time with as I can. We started to travel together every October when he have semester from school. We talk with each other and I write him (paper)-letters. Don't you never stop gratitude your grandma,you must be her life! Wish you and your grandma all the best! Regards from a Swedish grandma ❤
lele jujube writing a book ?
i wish, i'm not that talented.
LeLe Jujube that's really nice that you have such a close relationship with your grandmother. Eat up everything she tells you. My mom is gone now but I'm the one she shared her stories with, and I'm so grateful for the memories.
Veruca Salt I was close to my late Grandma too. I miss her so much even after 22 years😓😓😓
I love this recipe! Onions and mushrooms sounds great! I have to have a snack when I watch because I get so hungry watching the food Clara cooks!
She is absolutely beautiful and priceless. The wisdom of elders should never be overlooked.
I love her so much because she’s shows how spoiled we are today
I love you Clara.❤ You are like the grandma I never have.
She melts my ♥.
I wouldn't try the trick to use a coin to tell if mushrooms are poisonous nowadays though. more than likely the coin she used was silver and reacted differently than a coin would now that was a different base metal.
Optimus Prime that's what I was thinking what toxin reacts with silver though? Maybe amanita?
Even if it's silver, you can't trust that trick. The myth that poisons turn silver black was believed in a number of cultures, but there isn't any science behind it. If you aren't familiar with ALL the mushrooms in your area - the good ones AND the bad ones - don't eat ANY mushrooms you've picked yourself. With some mushrooms, by the time you notice you're feeling sick, it can already be too late for the doctors to save your life.
@@amykathleen2 They can really be that fatal???!
The Sinful Fangirl There are mushrooms with names like "deathcap" and "destroying angel" which contain an incredibly deadly toxin. You don't want to take any chances when it comes to mushrooms.
Exactly agreed 😉
You can keep track of the state of the economy by whether Ms. Clara's videos are on the algorithm again. Thanks a million for the series and sharing your grandmother with us.
I could live on mushrooms, too!! Fried in a little bacon grease with onions!!
Bacon grease makes the best popcorn. If you are poor... save your bacon grease. (jar in fridge) Good for frying potatoes & onions. Use a pat to flavor soups.
@@bluemoon3699 how long can it last in the fridge? Does it expire?
me and my children are going to do our dinners for a week living on ur recipes.
how did it go?
@@grahamsmith3186 I'm curious as well?
Yes, thank you for all the recordings of Clara! It’s wonderful because it’s like a visit with her❤. I watch them, I share them and I bought her wonderful cookbook!! It’s wonderful to watch and to read her stories ❤️
I just recently found Clara, and I really enjoy her videos. She was such a great lady, and I’m glad we can still enjoy her personality and wisdom.
All mushrooms are edible, some only once. 😏
Thanks so much for leaving us these wonderful videos, Clara.
Lol
Amen, Amen❤. Such a lesson to hold onto in these times.I am thankful for my grandparents and aunts, uncles to being wonderful examples. I don't regret how I was raised.
Clara and her videos are precious and what we need for these times in 2021. I feel like we are going to be using her recipes very soon
She is such a blessing I hope she is still with us. What a wealth of knowledge she holds 🙏
She is with Jesus now .
Sweet Clara, what a gem to the world! Thank you so much for making these precious videos of Clara! Since I have found the first video, I have been hooked! I am finally ordering her book and can't wait to see all the amazing recipes!
It is amazing how your grandmother talks about the worst of times yet always manages to speak so positive! She was such a humble and sweet lady, appreciating what nature provided for her family during those hard times and made them feel off much better.
I am sad that Clara is not around anymore! I love her cooking just as much as her stories and memories she shared in the videos! Thank you so very much for giving us the gift of "sweet Clara"! R.I.P. sweet lady! ❤🕊️🌠
I love watching this sweet woman cook..... reminds me of when I was young, hanging out in the kitchen watching my grandma magically make feasts from whatever was in the fridge... it was amazing and delicious... God bless you Ms. Clara.... RIP
I love this woman. Melts my heart. God bless her.
I love this woman with my whole heart she’s so excited about these mushrooms
She makes me feel so, very thankful for my grandma. I was curious at one of her videos, and have now seen at least 5. And she just makes me feel thankful for my grandma because she's still living, cooking, and full of stories to tell. I sometimes feel as if I haven't appreciated her enough and taken a lot of things she does for granted. But I think that now I really do want to make sure I spend more time with her.
RIP darling.
I am the child (well, I'm a 67 yr old fart of a child ;) of a depression era. Mother was much like this dear lady. Her divorced mother raised 3 children (with no child support) working as a waitress in an upscale eatery. She was a master at making delish dishes that cost next to nothing. Our family was equally poor. She managed to feed a family of 7 (including fathers parents) on a huge gardens in the summer and bought beef and milk from a local farmer. All summer the kids were expected to work in the garden, which was actually fun for me, and help mother can veggies and fruit. We would also go berry, apple and mushroom picking, for jam, pies, or whatever. Nothing ever went to waste. But the wonderful point I want to make is she did so on next to no extra money and none of us went to bed hungry. :) I still cook everything homemade, but can no longer manage a garden. The one thing I hate most are the tomatoes, in cans or "fresh" from the stores. They all taste like cardboard. I still remember how darn good mothers canned tomatoes tasted, compared to store bought canned tomatoes.
Sorry for rambling here, but I wanted to say that mother taught us that if a mushroom top could be peeled, it was good to eat. Anyway, no one ever got sick, so there must have been something to it. RIP mother.
Mad Hatter Goes to show that anyone can have the fondest of memories, in the hardest of times! People should be more thankful, nowadays. Thanks for sharing!
I can't manage a garden either, but that's what farmer's markets are for! Get real tomatoes and spend a weekend putting them up. So worth it.
Mad Hatter Thanks for sharing. I agree with you about tomatoes too. Ain't nothing like a home grown garden tomato in the summer! The store bought look like them but have absolutely nothing on their flavor
+Mad Hatter What a lovely story! I can feel your pride and happiness from those days. Too many people sitting about expecting handouts these days its disgusting. Seen you around in money vids so it was a nice surprise to see you here. I love cooking and all my meals are also home-made. Keep cooking and I hope you have lots of lovely friends and relatives to enjoy your efforts :)
Mad Hatter ❤❤❤
What a dear sweet woman. I could sit in her kitchen all day long and just listen to her stories. RIP Clara.
She strikes my as that one gal who would go up that person sitting alone at elementary school and become friends with them.
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I loved this episode. I love mushrooms and I love Clara!!! RIP Clara! I hope you are cooking for the Lord in Heaven!
This woman is such a sweetheart I would have loved to get to know her
I'm more than sure she is truly missed by a lot of people❤
My goodness I love this woman!
This lady was so beautiful and amazing, she cracks me up the whole video every time
Miss Clara, you're a beautiful gem and such a blessing and inspiration to all that watch or you!!
I love fried mushrooms, they are packed with protein and nutrients.
PS: If you wash them with water, your going to have rubbery mushrooms. You always wipe them with a clean towel, and never ever salt them until the very end of cooking. The salt draws out too much moisture and will make them dry.
Gordon Ramsay: “That’s not how you chop mushrooms and onions”
Clara: “I’ve been cooking longer than you’ve been alive”
I actually think Chef Ramsay would have adored her!!
🤣😂
Gordon best respect Ms Clara
Two feet diameter mushrooms.
We don't see them now.
Could they have been toad stools as we were told.
She could have been a doctor!
FU Gordon Ramsey! Leave Clara alone! She is demonstrating recipes and cooking from the Depression.
I make this once or twice a month now. Clara if you can hear me in heaven, thank you!
Loving old lady I’m sure she’s in paradise picking in the garden teaching god how to cook love her videos
Her memory was astounding I can’t get over it....I’m so in awe of her wit and her humor. What a good idea for a UA-cam Channel ❤️
My Nana used to do that same gesture with her fingers and corner of her mouth when something was tasty, done well. Seeing her do that at the end of the video brought s tear to my eye :)
My father lived thru the depression and always picked mushrooms and cooked with the quarter for us. God Bless Clara.
I wish I had someone like her to learn from
you have this channel now, so you can learn from Clara :-) God bless
Go visit a local retrirment home or nursing home u will find many amazing people.