Great Depression Cooking - Fried Mushrooms
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2010
- Clara's Official Website: www.welcometoclaraskitchen.com
95 year old cook, author of "Clara's Kitchen" and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Great Depression. - Розваги
"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.
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! 🥰💞
My grandparents told me about living during the depression and how life had to become so simple. Basic necessities became a luxury and food most of us would turn our nose up at today was considered a feast. Be thankful for what you have!
So true. It doesnt have to be expensive to enjoyed a simple and good meal. Espiacelly with our family and good friends.
It looks like a feast to me today. I can't even afford mushrooms.
@@michellelovespink2660 if you’re able to, there may be areas around where you can forage safe to eat mushrooms!
@@belle20575 unless you learn from someone else in person be very very very very very very very very very very very very very careful eating wild mushrooms
My grandparents did as well. My mother was 10 years old during the depression. It had a huge effect on how she cooked. She use to talk about having to eat bread and dripping, offal, pig and chickens feet. Small meals no wastage.
Now we have use by dates on everything, people throw out food without really thinking. People knew what had gone bad for decades without use by dates. People had commonsense to know when something had gone off in smelt rotten.
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.
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
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.
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.
"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
“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.
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 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❤❤❤
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 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.
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
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.
👍👍👍👍👍💖💖💖💖💖
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.
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
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.
“I think this onion is older than me” Killed me
I just love her sweet little laugh. And then when she pretends to twist her cheek and smiles! Lol. Such an absolute sweetheart!!
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.
3:47 "I think the onion is older than me". I burted into tear because of laughing 😂 Grandma is the best
“you can always add more oil but you can’t take it out”
*quietly spoons oil out of pan*
Emma Wilson she was so fucking precious
Ikr. I caught that too! And she spooned the oil out more than once....😂
Save it! It will add mushroom flavor to something else later. 😁
Love her
The biggest crime is when they started replacing butter for that toxic oil.
Butter was cheap as chips back then, then Procter & Gamble stepped in.
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.
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! 🤡
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.
L
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
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
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 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!
I love her so much because she’s shows how spoiled we are today
My grandparents lived through the Great depression. They told us about how their Christmas was. They said that there was no money to buy any presents but they would wrap things up like toilet paper and bags of beans, to keep Christmas morning opening presents traditional alive. Every year they would open up things as though they were enjoying a bountiful Christmas morning. They would wrap things up with recycled newspapers because they couldn't even afford to buy wrapping paper. Crazy.
My brother and sister use to wrap gifts with the Sunday comics. We grew up poor and the other children would laugh at us because my mom made our clothes. We had one of kind shirts my sister and I had original dresses made by my mom. We wore plain pockets jeans from JC Penneys and Tough skins from Sears. Always made fun of.
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 treasure
hey so are you.
Who's here in 2020 seeking wisdom during the coronavirus grocery shortage?
us right wingers have been rewatching Claras videos for years. She is an angel and cultural gem.
True Immortality it’s the algorithm
Me
@@paladinhansen137 I'm not a right winger, I'm at over 10 years subscribed. Politics aren't related to Clara's content, leave it out of her kitchen.
@@paladinhansen137 Please don't bring politics into Clara's comment section. I think both sides have gotten too far in this day and age, both left and right. People from both sides need to stop. Politics is important but don't dump them here and cause arguments.
I have literally been binge watching her videos. May she be in the lords glory. She reminds my of my abuelita 👵
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. 😊
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?
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...
I noticed the years went from 1929 to 1939. OMG, so did the Depression last all of 10 whole years ? That's a hell of a long time to have to put up with all of what you went through!
Yes. Unfortunately WW2 started in 1939.
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.
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 😉
It’s so sad watching this in 2020 and hearing her say “I hope that never happens again” and now our economy’s failing 😔 we’re sorry Clara
Edit: I’m not American btw lmao
S A M E.
We have failed.
😭🙏 same
Damn, have some hope 😭😭
So true
They should make a shirt that says " thats all i have to say about that" i love it when she said that
Just like Forest Gump 👍🤣
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.
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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Why do i find watching Clara's cooking more comforting than watching pros on tv?
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
All mushrooms are edible, some only once. 😏
Thanks so much for leaving us these wonderful videos, Clara.
Lol
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.
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
Clara is so wonderful to watch, even if she is now just watching over us
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
Omg this is the purest channel here. I love it so much.
u remind me of my grandma so much cooking. rest in peace we all love u
We do
Now it is a tradition for me to watch a video of hers before bedtime.. it is just so relaxing and calming.
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
rachael wills random
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.....
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The cute cheek motion makes me so happy at 6:45
When I worked on a dairy farm I had to cross a big meadow and first thing in the morning there was lots of big mushrooms growing, but you had to pick them early in the morning, we called them horse mushrooms they were the size of a dinner plate or bigger nan use to do me a big breakfast and the mushroom was under the eggs and bacon beans tomatoes and black pud and fried bread, lol I didn't need anything to eat till tea time, sometimes all I had was a sandwich but that's how they were up north in the UK.
Anita from the U.K
Would you be willing to make some cooking videos about what you ate growing up? I would subscribe.
Just love listening to Clara talk..she is relaxing,and has the best sense of humor..We will miss you Clara:)
She reminds me so much of my Grandmother god bless them and thanks for keeping this channel alive.
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 😭😔
Things she has taught me:
Mistakes can be fixed
Mushrooms can be poisonous
Taste food is the final step.
Watching Clara's videos gives me peace from this world, even if it's only 5 or 10 minutes!
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.
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!
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 :)
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😓😓😓
Her mother was quite resourceful!
Sometimes, I miss the elders in my life who have left us. I turn on one of Clara's videos and I feel a little better. I am so glad you shared her with us.
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!
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?
“ they look like little umbrellas” ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love it when she said that. XD
Idk if it was that specific type of mushroom but in German they’re called “Parasolen“, I believe which is a sun umbrella.
The little gesture she did after she tasted her finished creation was really unexpected and adorable. It really made me smile :)
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 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.
I had a feeling she was born in the Midwest, in Chicago, and I looked it up. I was right! Her personality was so funny and friendly.
plumpkitters ....grandmothers are the best ❤️️
In one video she talks about going to lake geneva and that's how i knew!!
When did this sweet old lady die? I only found her channel a few days ago.
Dianna Champ about five years ago. I’m sad to say that I only discovered her recently as well. She reminds me of my great nonna.
06:40 awwwwww. I love that pinch of her cheek and sound she made to emote “perfecto!” 🙂
She’s right too - vegans/vegetarians have been using mushrooms as a meat substitute for some time now. :)
I love watching her videos it brings comfort to me she's such a lovely soul
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
Clara: Stir it every so often use your common sense......
Me: laughing out loud.
I love her tell how it is yet in a loving manner.
One of my Clara faves is, “You don’t need a timer if you use your brain.” May have been “...if you’re using your brain,” but she sure was remarkably sharp to the end!
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.
We love Clara. She was such a blessing to the world. Thank you Christopher.
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!
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.
What a gem! Amazing cook and human being. Sweet, sensible, sharp as a tack and unpretentious. What a long life she enjoyed!
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. 😊
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 miss you every day Clara!! Rest with God and the Angels and I hope you have met my mom and dad up there! Cut from the same cloth! Love you!
Oh no...has Clara passed?? I was watching all her videos, starting at 91, and now at 95 and was wondering how many more videos they'll be. When did she pass away?
Yvonne K I'll spoil this for you...98.
She passed away on November 29, 2013
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
I love this woman with my whole heart she’s so excited about these mushrooms
"And that's all I can say about mushrooms" what a lovely old lady! RIP Clara 🌻🌻🌻
She is absolutely beautiful and priceless. The wisdom of elders should never be overlooked.
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. ❤❤❤
It is so nice to see dicing veggies in your hands. Today most dicing is done on a cutting board. I thoroughly enjoy watching you cook. And your stories of life in that era are fascinating. Thank you Miss Clara
I love this woman. Melts my heart. God bless her.
I make this once or twice a month now. Clara if you can hear me in heaven, thank you!
I absolutely love Clara's videos. Her since of humor , her stories, absolutely PRICELESS!!! I would have LOVED to meet her mother as well. She sounds like such a stong brilliant woman as well! 💘💘🙏🏽
Thank the lord for such blessings!
I love onions and mushrooms, they go with everything, add em to gravy then add sausage and mash, put em in a pie with gravy, make a curry or nearly every Chinese meal, mince it up and make a cottage pie, add em to instant noodles. I lived on these for over a year when I was a student because I used to get the mushrooms for free from the corner shop when they got a tad slimey and wild onions grew by the sides of the country roads nearby, as well as dandilions, burock root, wild garlic and nettles, I never touched the wild mushrooms because I didn't know them from adam. Gorrammit, I'm gonna get me a bottle of dandelion & burdock coz I got the hankerin'.