My grandma (who was born in 1919) always told me stories of the great depression that her parents went through and what type of meals they made/had. She would show me tricks they had for saving $ on just about everything. She would wipe of The aluminum foil she used, folded it up and reuse it & so many other things. One of the meals that she showed me how to make was the potato pancakes, but she would always add onions to hers… and the combination was absolutely delicious such a simple recipe, but tasted so good! She lived to the age of 95 & I miss her every day! She taught me so much & had so much wisdom to share. With what’s going on in the world today…. I am thankful to have learned those tips & recipes from my grandmother from so long ago… Because I have a feeling they’re going to come in real handy in the days/years to come.
Oh, please…..maybe sometime consider writing your grandma's tips down in a small book. People do need these ideas today, and in the foreseeable future. Your memories are treasures! I bet you could sell hundreds of your book.
My grandpa used to say, "If beans don't taste good for the 4th or 5th meal in a row, you haven't worked hard enough that day. Get down from the table and go muck out the stalls in the barn." Everyone ate their beans in silence.
Great gran used to have something called a bean bowl. It was what they used to sort good from bad beans and stones that came in the package. Mom inherited it
There is such a thing as lack of creativity!! I could subsist on bean variations for months while my husband can't stand them. He was overdosed on beans so much as a child he has great difficulties. I have turned him onto some variations but only in limited amounts. So, too much of a good thing turns it into a bad thing.
I was raised in Michigan. City Chicken is what we called those mock chicken legs. Mother used to make potato pancakes and salmon cakes for a meal. In the summer for supper we might have bread and butter, corn on the cob, and sliced tomatoes. a winter version of that would be stewed tomatoes over torn up day old bread and a jar of home canned corn. Our place had a river running by and a woods. We fished and hunted. That gave us perch, squirrel, rabbit, and pheasant, as well as venison. We grew a big garden and had an orchard a fruit trees as well as berry bushes. We made pickles relish and sauerkraut. Grandpa even made pickled pigs feet. My other grandpa made cider. All in all, we got along pretty well.
Yep. Loved my mum's salmon patties, meatloaf, boiled dinner and potato pancakes. She could take hamburger, canned tomatoes, egg noodles and makeone wonderful dinner dish.
I can't imagine eating squirrel! Probably like musk rat though. I know people have eaten that. Daddy caught rabbit, possum and raccoon. Wild just the same. I guess when we're hungry, just bless and eat! (Just don't tell me if it's musk rat or squirrel!)🤣 MERRY CHRISTMAS! 🎄❤️✝️❤️🎄
I live in Pittsburgh,Pa. City Chicken is amazing, it's made with beef and pork small chunks on a wooden skewer (like a kabob) breaded and fried. It's usually eaten at Easter in Polish areas around here.
My grandma raised her family during the depression. I'm still enjoying many of her budget meals. One is diced potatoes, sliced okra, and diced onion all fried up in bacon grease.
I've had 6 kids and have never been rich. When I've made meatloaf, I've stretched out using leftover cooked rice. I usually planned meals a day in advance and if l didn't have any leftover cooked rice, l would cook some the day before just for the meatloaf the next day. I never had creamed peas on toast, but always as a side dish. And I've made Chicken A La King not just with rice or noodles but sometimes on toast or with homemade bisquits. My oldest daughter was born in 1975, and my youngest daughter was born in 1999, with four others born in between in 1978, 1979, 1983, and 1989. None of them died from starvation and I never had a lot of money. They ate cheap and now cook a lot of the things l used to cook.
Yeah tell me about it when I came back to the states to visit because I live somewhere else. I was appalled by the poverty and and the cost of living I thought about relocating there but I can't afford it. It's too difficult to find a job where you're not working three jobs. The amount of work hours you have to work just to be able to rent an apartment. We better get Trump into office fast❤
@@meggrotte4760he wants tariffs of 200%+- that would absolutely destroy what limited gains we’ve made after how badly he handled 2020. And how bad his first set of tariffs went. He couldn’t even handle his business without constant bankruptcies, why would he be able to handle something that always fragile like an economy. He’ll send us back to 1930s with his tariffs, they made the Great Depression worse,
Well when you have a society where the one percent benefit the most and while inflation rises corporations make more money Yes the economy is doing good it's just the average citizen isn't benefiting from it. cuz you have people like musk, The fact that we have billionaires proves our economy has been fixed to help the wealthy become even wealthier while they get huge tax right offs and benefit from loopholes when billionaires only pay $700 or no taxes at all
SOS is great. I've raised 4 and make many of these meals today. I'm worried now though because it's fixing to get bad again and we barely afford these meals. Peace and Love to you and yours.
I loved creamed chipped beef on toast when I was growing up (I'm 71), but a while back when I decided to buy some packages of Buddig's chipped beef to make a batch it was shockingly expensive. When I was young you could buy it for around .39 a package. It turned out the Buddig's was too salty which I no longer like.
I live alone, which can make it difficult to eat fresh vegetables without anything going to waste. I make a clean-out-the-fridge soup the day before I go to the grocery store. It’s so versatile! A little vinegar and red pepper flakes makes it a hot & sour soup. Egg drop soup is easy, or poach whole eggs right in the soup for something different. If I’m feeling fancy I purée all the vegetables for a nice, smooth soup and throw in some milk (or non-milk) or the last piece of cheese. It is never the same twice, and it’s always delicious. 😋
My grandmother was born in 1911. I was in 1956 . I remember as a child her making my sister and I creamed salmon and peas on toast when we would have sleepovers at her tiny cottage. ❤😊
Throughout the centuries, I believe thick soups were what people lived on. Today we eat more than we need and solid foods rather than thick soups. I love a meal of thick soup, any kind! Wonderful meals that usually dont make you really fat.
I think today we WASTE more than we eat. when people are trying to "cut carbs" and all that foolishness to lose weight, it messes with the body's biology by making people hungrier than usual and thus require MORE calories to sustain themselves. A bowl of rice or pasta goes a long way to keeping people energized, but everyone acts like it's "too fattening". cause it's "Carbs". and throw away half of it. Wasteful....utterly wasteful.
I love green peas on toast, homemade tomato soup, and pickle sandwiches. My grandma was born in 1900 and lived to the age of 98, boy could she cook. She and her sisters had to get up early, eat a quick breakfast, and then get ready to feed the farmhands. She taught my mom but it really is a lost art of some of those dishes. I only wish I was 1/10th of how good she was.
Thank you! And it was brought to the south by African slaves. And it is now a staple in Virginia historical hotels. George Washington Carver was the scientist that analyzed the African food. For nutrition. For healthiness. And that’s why soul food is so good for our soul.❤
I’m 72. I grew up on my grandma’s depression era recipes. My husband grew up on Southern depression foods. Today we still fix some of those dishes. Tonight it’s pork, fried cabbage and rice.
My mum used to take a bit of hamburger, cook it up with onions and garlic. then she would throw in stewed tomatoes, and egg noodles. I made it for my grandma in law and she loved it!
One quick fix if you want to thicken a soup, or even some sauces - add a handful of instant potato flakes. It thickens instantly and is shelf-stable so I just keep some in the pantry.
My dad is 88 years old , he drove up from Florida this week and told me and my brothers a story that we remember well, about how he would shoot rabbits and squirrels , for his step mom too cook , the depression lasted a long time in the south Virginia and North Carolina
@@happycrabknits9109 Soup is the best. You can throw pretty much anything in there and it's delicious and usually pretty cheap. It's what I make when I have a bunch of veggies, random pantry items, or leftover meat and don't know what else to use it for. It all goes in a pot for soup. Good way to use up ingredients instead of letting them sit in my pantry for 5 years and eventually be thrown away lol.
I love all these foods, I don't even consider many of them depression foods but more comfort food now. My mother use to make alot of these foods as was growing up, I sure wish she was still living so she could make them. Rare she ever used recipes unless it was something new. She made the best pie crusts ever.
My father (born in 1910) hated casseroles so my mother never made them. (Except for "turkey tetrazzini" made from leftover Thanksgiving turkey.) My husband likes casseroles because he grew up on them but I almost never make them--maybe once every few years.
Manys the night we had beans and rice. Served together it had a complete protein which many people didn't get. Pretty much hate it now...but at the time, it was heaven sent. Rice pudding we sometimes had for breakfast, cold or hot. People think the depression magically disappeared in the fifties, but the sad truth is in many places it lasted well into the sixties as it did for me and my folks.
🤷 Trying to be a frugal wife in the late 80s and 1990-2000 while still making food healthy and tasty, I often did serve brown rice pudding on weekend mornings with breakfast, whether made with cow's milk, soy milk, nut milk or even pureed tofu, always eggs, sugar/honey/maple syrup or whatever sweetener we were using, raisins or apples, spice, alongside eggs or fruit and yogurt; things like hearty bean soups (usually with a good deal of veggies thrown in), biscuits or dumplings or corn muffins and salad, etc, but even back then chicken, beef, and often fish prices were fairly reasonable.
I learned first hand that gravy can cover a multitude of sins (slash that) foods. I have eaten gravy alone as a meal. Also gravy on bread, gravy on whatever you had available, at least it helps get rid of that knawing feeling of being truly & in explicably hungry. As a 60's kid, I never understood why my mom continued to garden & "can" @ home when one could just run to the grocery store. I understood that when she was growing up that the depression hit and food was scarace. Still it never really registered w me until I became an adult and had to do my "adulting" alone because my Mother had passed. Now I wished I had been canning all these years and not have to concern myself so much w what will I eat.
Egg drop soup is one of my favorite soups. I make it now with chicken bone broth and free range eggs, very lightly garnished with either a splash of sesame oil and soy sauce, or crumbled bacon and minced green onion.
This is a great video. My Grandmother and my uncles grew up in The Great Depression. Years later she couldn’t touch rice. She was an amazing woman and a phenomenal cook. We didn’t have a lot of money, but she always filled my stomach up.
Peanut Butter Soup is also used today in many West African cultures. I remember a chicken peanut butter soup/groundnut stew that one of our friends made for our family, and I tried to copy the recipe today. It's delicious and filling and can be served with rice or fufu.
They keep showing an old TV but TV didnt come into being until the 1950s, way after the depression! I grew up with parents who made these dishes. Both were very badly affected by the depression. I loved split pea soup, and creamed peas were a standard lunch with tuna in it and maybe some cooked carrots in it as well. And if we had eggs, a hard boiled egg would be sliced in. All served on toast. Yup. Great meals.
Back in the 70's when I was a kid we had a lot of cheap dinners from sandwiches to soups but we didn't starve. occasionally we had a fancy meal like macaroni and cheese among other delicious foods back in the 1970's but thanks for the classic food memories of the past thank you.😋🧆🍝🍲🍛😋
We didn’t have much, but I didn’t know how hard things really were until I was an adult. We always had balanced meals, but no seconds, or snacks laying around. We worked, and played outdoors, watched very little tv in the evenings, and no one was overweight in most families I knew.
I guess they're considered an "odd food combination" but my mom and I used to eat peanut butter and pickle sandwiches when my parents were particularly tight on money because that's what we had the most of in the cupboard lol. I loved them at the time and thought of them as a treat for dinner, but I didn't realize until I was an adult the real reason we ate them.
😆 I'm French -creole and beans and rice is a staple At my house! Only thing My family uses pinto beans instead of kidney beans my Dad hated kidney beans!❤❤❤❤❤
I use pinto beans, or kidney beans (LOVE them!), or cannellini beans, black beans...anything except butter beans....to make my beans and rice. But I'm just plain old American---English ancestry, nothing remarkable---and I like nearly every bean there is. I've even used leftover 15-bean soup with which to make beans and rice.
@dawniesimon I hope that you enjoy your beans and cornbread Did you see some bacon grease in the cornbread? It makes it taste sooooo good pass the green onion and the cheese please! 😄😄😄
My mom makes creamed tuna with peas over mashed potatoes. And over toast the next day for lunch. Its made the same way as creamed peas you just add drained canned tuna. And it's still one of my favorite meals
I grew up on navy bean soup, rice pudding, meatloaf, veggie pies, mac n cheese, scalloped potatoes, potato soup, red beans and rice, etc. My mother fed her 10 children with homemade Penn-Dutch meals like smoked pork hock simmered with green beans, onions and potatoes. Also chicken pot pie made in one pot with one whole chicken. onions, potatoes and then once the meat was tender the chicken carcass was removed. chicken meat was added back to the pot. the day before my mother rolled out homemade noodles very thin, let them dry then cut them into bite-sized pieces. These were added to the pot to cook in the broth the next day. I still have that enormous stock pot she used.
My father grew up poor, started working at 14 years old for a circus to help support his family. Way later he became a “mess Sargent “ in the Army, and a Master Chef. He would make the best “Ice Box Soup “ from leftovers in our fridge. That was an amazing task considering we rarely had very much leftovers.
My mother grew up during the Great Depression and when I was growing up in the 1970's she would still cook Depression-era type meals and they were good. Fried potatoes and onions, meatless spaghetti except she made her own sauce instead of using store-bought, Spanish rice, and hash.
Funny my kids prefer spaghetti without meat .. we’ve had tough times of our own beans and rice and deer got us through a very tough winter our kids were small so they didn’t notice how tough things really were
I cook at home, fast food is very expensive now, and I have gone back to making my own bread, corn bread, pancakes, muffins, bisquits, etc. However, flour and cornmeal have gone up too, but still better and cheaper.
And you can freeze flour, cornmeal, coconut flour, etc., so it keeps a lot longer than when sitting on a pantry shelf. I cook and bake only for myself now, and have done the freezer storage for staples for years. Sure saves me a lot of angst and money.
My Parents were from the depression era , I always wondered why they saved everything when they passed.... Now I know, especially what’s going on in today’s world. 🇺🇸Semper Fi
I lost both of my parents when I was 14 and lived with a dear aunt and uncle. After the war my uncle always worked in the food industry as a chef, butcher, etc. He and my aunt taught me how to season food which is really important. She had some small appliances that still worked from the 40's! Things were made to last in those days!
Oh my, these meals are those that we eat so often. Ate them because they are so satisfying. Ate them because they are so good. Try potato sausage soup. Yum Yum good!
@@marygreen2672 Right-I live in Illinois & lunch was lunch & the last meal of the day was supper. We never called any meal dinner but I’ve heard co-workers in Illinois call lunch dinner. Back in the 1960’s I never heard the word dinner used unless you called a meal chicken dinner
We had breakfast, lunch and supper as well. However, a big meal like a roast was called dinner whenever it was served. Typically around 2 pm on Sundays or occasionally at 5 or 6 pm on weekdays, although it was very rare to have a weekday roast.
@revrotunda3206 , I call the last meal supper and I live in Illinois. Maybe people in orher states call it dinner. Oh well. Yes a chicken dinner if u go out to eat😭 I was born in 61. Have a great day and enjoy your lunch and supper😁
I love fried tater sandwiches, bean soup, rice pudding, veggie soup, all the dishes in this video. I'm going to make some gravy, heat up one of my homemade biscuits, and have supper now!❤️yummy!!
My mother was born in 1915, Dads was, too, plus his dad died in a mine cave in when dad was 11 years old. So I grew up with lots of Depression Era meals. We also had a stove with an oven that barely worked. The back of the oven would often burn the food. The middle part worked just fine, while in the front the food was barely cooked. Thus, mother cooked a lot in a Dutch oven on top of the stove or with a pressure cooker. Sometimes spaghetti was cooked with fried bacon crumbled and homemade sauce. We ate lots of soups made from leftovers. At the time I didn’t appreciate Mother’s creativity with soups or casseroles. We’d have a nice Sunday dinner and have soup or casserole for the next couple of days. Tomato 🍅 dumplings were a good idea. You took a can of stewed tomatoes and added biscuits cut into small chunks and cooked in the soup pot. Much of what you have mentioned sounds very familiar.Oh, yes, we had bread, cornbread or biscuits with every meal. But we also had other dishes like fried chicken, beef roast cooked in the Dutch oven or pressure cooker. We had tuna casserole, Mac and cheese and Hungarian goulash. Yes, that’s a real dish (I thought she made it up every time she made it). Being southern we had beans and cornbread with green onion on the side ( and we ate the green tops, too). We also had sauerkraut and wieners and pimento cheese sandwiches, as well as tuna salad sandwiches. Mother made delicious meals. Dad worked at a very good job for a Texas oil company. So we were a Very long way from being poor. We were somewhere in the middle class. But Dad had been poor growing up. He never expected to buy a car or own his own home. Mother’s dad worked for Purina Food Mills as the General Traffic Manager in Kansas City, Mo. He also had a few milk cows and ran a small dairy farm. Mom helped milk cows every morning and evening. So they had different backgrounds and attended High School together. They were married for 53 years and had a happy life together. 😊
I still make a lot of these foods. My grandparents & parents lived through the Depression, so, you learned to make filling meals with what you had on hand.
My mom and dad were born in the very early 1900's. I was the youngest in our family.....Mom use to make a special dinner for company...she would make a large batch of biscuits and pat the dough out in cake layer pans.....then bake them in the oven....mean while she would make a large batch of white sauce and add a can of chopped asparagus and cooked onions..... into the white sauce....then she split the two very large biscuits in half and layer them with the asparagus sauce and stacked up like a layer cake and sprinkle the top with sliced boiled eggs.... Asparagus Short Cake.... everyone loved it. 🎉🎉
Coconut milk? Johnny Cakes pictured recipe. Oops. They probably meant evaporated milk, or powdered milk. Coconut milk was not a thing during the depression.
For rice pudding, my mother added either lemon flavoring or lemon zest, sometimes just vanilla to make it tasty. She loves lemon. As for carrots and turnips, the flavor is improved by adding brown sugar. Both veggies go better with brown sugar.
I still cook like this is was born in 52 so my mom taught me how to cook all of this stuff but my great grand ma was from Germany and French cooking so all the stuff had sauces and wonderful desserts so not a bunch of food but it was great.you know we Americans are pretty tuff we survived through alot of stuff, but I have always lived with Jesus and he never left us begging for bread. He was always there for us 😊
Dandelion, rocket, arugula, cress, sorrel, chickweed, garlic mustard, chives, wild thyme all grow in my backyard, and if you live in the the US, probably in yours too. If you forage, be sure to wash it all thoroughly and maybe soak in salt water for a minute before rinsing and serving in a salad or sauteing. The addition of a little fresh or dried garlic and onion in the oil offsets and compliments dandelion greens.
I make a salad out of dandelion leaves, and wood sorrel leaves. I organically garden so I don’t have to worry about the pesticides. I’m curious if the other plants you named grow in my area. I’ll have to look them up. I know we still have wild chicory although it’s not as prevalent as it used to be when I was growing up.
When my husband was little his mother made the same meals each week only changing up for holidays. He said he never wondered "what's for supper." His father worked in the coal mines. He had 3 sisters. They had a huge coal-fired kitchen range.There was no furnace, that old stove had to do. Like me, they grew up poor. There was no food pantries, welfare or freebees of any kind. But we made it and didn't bitch and moan either.
I havean adult daughter who makes rice just so she can make rice pudding, shefell in love with it at my cousins house,her elderly great aunt who parents, were off the boat from sweeden made it for every gathering!
Yep my mom made it with raisins in it. I always remember she put a pan of water in the oven with it to keep it moist. Then warm milk in your bowl with it if you wanted.
Tomorrow I'm making a sausage gumbo with smoked link sausage, okra, tomatoes, onions, celery, bell pepper, homemade chicken stock, and some 'gumbo filet' seasoning mixed in at the end before serving over rice with a crispy french bread! 😋
@@leslietittle8968 Wow. You had to make do with what you had! I can't remember the kinds of dishes my grandmothers made for my mother and her 8 siblings, but they had fields of veggies, chickens and I guess some beef. I do remember them saying that everything was very tasty.
🙏Thank❤You🙏 for the Lovely Wonderful old recipes of the 1920 depression meals! Wonderful video I loved it made miss my old days with my beloved parents grandparents thank you❤
We eat most of these meals with groceries being so high today. Thank goodness not alot of mouths to feed, but GRATEFUL to have something to help with groceries so costly today. Once prices in the grocery store GO UP in cost, they NEVER bring them down. 😢
Great reminders, but how do you keep skipping over chicken and dumplings? They were a staple in my house growing up. Dumplings with anything helped strech the budget and were delicious.
@@norriemcclure5927 I prefer having meat with them. Don’t like gravy & biscuits without bacon or pork sausage. Or just bacon bits on top but to each, their own
Oh my, yes! My mom made the best chicken paprikash ever. There were 8 of us in our family and that dish would be enough to fill our bellies full. So good!
Tuna noodle casserole is still a favorite in my family. We call it tunie-nudie which always makes us giggle. A spring mix I buy for salads has dandelion greens which I discovered when I read the label.
Growing up, we loved it when mom made soup beans (navy beans with a little bacon or ham) and hot fresh bread with butter. Mmmmm!!! It lasted for 2-3 days and we weren't complaining!
My parents went through the depression and I grew up in the 50's. My mother made a lot of these recipes including yorkshire pudding which is basically eggs flour and milk. I still remember Wednesday night was spaghetti night my favorite.
We don't know what is coming so these recipes are awesome.. You all been raised poorly...we were raisedby alcoholic parents..so we didn't have much to eat, i was so thin you could see my bones...I was too young to cook and i needed to know how to cook..I stayed will an eating disorder for yrs...i was used to not eating but had my mother stopped drinking she was the best cook...when i would come home from school and there was a boiling pot on our woodstove i knew my mom was sober and a meal was being done...these recipes here i wish i would have known...I'll be sure to keep this channel. ...now my problem is my mate never experienced not having food..they were on the richer side...the bad side of this is that he's fussy eater...i get angry with him...he doesn't like this or that...🙄
GREAT VIDEO. THANK YOU .I grew up on all of these foods. A depression Era Mom, 9 siblings, no money to spare.,I actually loved all this, except canned corned beef.,I'm 70 years old now and still trying to make a white sauce and white gravy like my mom`s.
Cover bottom of a frying pan with vegetable oil, med high heat, using Self- rising flour sprinkle flour over oil, depending on the size of the pan 2-4 Tlb spoons, stir continuously and brown the flour( browner the flour the more taste) when it's as brown as you want slowly add milk and stir continuously, it will thinken quick keep adding milk until desired thickness,if it gets too thick, thin out with water a little at a time until desired thickness, salt pepper you're done! My take some practice, but you'll get it, and please use Self-raising flour or your gravy will taste like paste! Hope this helps, my dad taught me how to make this, it's the greatest gravy ever, over biscuits, fried potatoes, mashed potatoes etc enjoy (and I'm 72) God bless.
I love soups like split pea & navy bean with ham bone or hocks in them. People ate the skin of the ham hocks back in the day to fill them up & not waste a drop
It is amazing to see that "old us meals" are a great part of old gdr food, where I was born. Yeah, it is often a cheap meal but you had 4-5 kids and no money. I love your videos
My mother would clean out the leftovers and make a huge pot of soup. She started with a pound of hamburger but chicken works well too. Beef, vegetable, or chicken stock. Then she added everything else. Leftover ketchup (packs from fast food) , leftover spaghetti, vegetables like potatoes, carrots, celery, peas, green beans, leftover beans of any type, corn/cream corn…. she cleaned out the fridge completely as she grew up in the Depression and nothing got wasted. Personally I don’t add onions or squash but you can try. Rice and noodles burn quickly so she waited until the end to put those in. I add, as my new contribution, “mushroom ketchup “ which is not like the red ketchup but like Worcestershire sauce only better ! It enhances meats and soups and can be ordered from Walmart.
Chicory could also be found growing all over. My grandmother made salads from the greens, cut off and washed the roots and fried them with onions . . . absolutely delicious.
Also as a tea. One of my friends makes dandelion tea during dandelion season here in our state, and she freeze dries as much as she can to have throughout our short winters.
Raised by my Gran who went through the British rationing in WW2.. I was born after the war but we had to make the money stretch.. Still use some of her recipes, it was always tasty and we never went hungry, quite an achievement. Thank you for these great recipes, subscribed.
@@geminiecricket4798 growing up we had a huge asparagus patch. We ate it fresh but also canned alot so we had it all year. Now I only buy it fresh, on sale, and always freeze some.
i make scalloped potatatoes,navy bean soup,split pea soup,potatoe soup,meat loaf,spagetti. Ya do what ya gotta do...plus it is healthier and it tastes better.
Ma'am, you make it all sound as if it's so mundane, but those are some of the best meals in America! I know you didn't mean it to come out sounding that way, and if I was a betting woman, I'd wager you make all of them deliciously. I'm 72, been cooking and baking since I was 8 y.o., so know all those foods very well. I've made all of them, grew up on all of them, and I still make them today, even though I cook only for myself now. All those foods were favorites of my late father and my late son, and they both learned how to make them so that they could have them any time they wanted them, and so they could occasionally have a "Grandpa and grandson cookoff."
And here asa1970s child I thought turnip's were a treat in the stew pot!dad was out of wirk frequently, sneaky Mom! They were a gift from her gardening crazy uncle!,our small town😊 grocery store rarely had them.
I remember eating Creamed peas. Sometimes over toast or biscuits. Sometimes with leftover cooked beef or chicken. Also creamed beef over toast or biscuits Aka: “S-O-S” 🤗
My mom made most of these dishes. She learned from her Mom who was around in the depression. She taught me how to cook them. She would make the corn beef hash into a soup. Her corn bread cakes were amazing. I’d forgotten that I knew how to cook with actual basic ingredients. Thanks for sharing. Brought back good memories.
My Dad’s favorite was navy beans! Made the whole house stink. He just passed at 94.😂 I always cooked for him but when he wanted navy beans I cooked them at his house.
My dad grew up in the great depression. When I was growing up, we ate about 95% of these dishes and I serve them to my family now too. Ham and cabbage was another classic - instead of corned beef, it was ham. The 'pot liquor' was amazing and if there was any leftover it went into bean or pea soup the next day. Well done video, I truly enjoyed it and you kept my attention through the entire thing!
My grandma (who was born in 1919) always told me stories of the great depression that her parents went through and what type of meals they made/had. She would show me tricks they had for saving $ on just about everything. She would wipe of The aluminum foil she used, folded it up and reuse it & so many other things. One of the meals that she showed me how to make was the potato pancakes, but she would always add onions to hers… and the combination was absolutely delicious such a simple recipe, but tasted so good! She lived to the age of 95 & I miss her every day! She taught me so much & had so much wisdom to share. With what’s going on in the world today…. I am thankful to have learned those tips & recipes from my grandmother from so long ago… Because I have a feeling they’re going to come in real handy in the days/years to come.
I love potato cakes with onion my mom's parents were poor so she knew that one. I even add mustard to mine is really good
WoW! What a blessing for you to have heard all those stories from your grandmother.
My Grandma, born in 1922 was adding onion and a clove of garlic to potato pancakes. I do the same.
It is a recept from Germany. Maybe some grandmas had German parends. The name is Reibekuchen.
Oh, please…..maybe sometime consider writing your grandma's tips down in a small book. People do need these ideas today, and in the foreseeable future. Your memories are treasures! I bet you could sell hundreds of your book.
One of the recipes that my Mom brought from the depression was fried potatoes with fried cabbage and I still enjoy it at 75.
yes , my Mom & Grandmother did, as well. Thanks for jogging my memory 😊
Good eats
What is the recipe?
I make it every week. Fried in bacon grease😋
A favorite of mine too
My grandpa used to say, "If beans don't taste good for the 4th or 5th meal in a row, you haven't worked hard enough that day. Get down from the table and go muck out the stalls in the barn." Everyone ate their beans in silence.
That s true...
Great gran used to have something called a bean bowl. It was what they used to sort good from bad beans and stones that came in the package. Mom inherited it
Smart grandpa 😂😂
Lol 😂
There is such a thing as lack of creativity!! I could subsist on bean variations for months while my husband can't stand them. He was overdosed on beans so much as a child he has great difficulties. I have turned him onto some variations but only in limited amounts. So, too much of a good thing turns it into a bad thing.
As I grew up in the 1970s, we ate leftover rice just with butter and sugar as dessert. I liked it.
Rice pudding with raisins! Yum!
Me too!
My mother would do something similar with white bread--toast with butter, cinnamon and sugar.
Butter and brown sugar..yummy
and cinnamin
I was raised in Michigan. City Chicken is what we called those mock chicken legs. Mother used to make potato pancakes and salmon cakes for a meal. In the summer for supper we might have bread and butter, corn on the cob, and sliced tomatoes. a winter version of that would be stewed tomatoes over torn up day old bread and a jar of home canned corn. Our place had a river running by and a woods. We fished and hunted. That gave us perch, squirrel, rabbit, and pheasant, as well as venison. We grew a big garden and had an orchard a fruit trees as well as berry bushes. We made pickles relish and sauerkraut. Grandpa even made pickled pigs feet. My other grandpa made cider. All in all, we got along pretty well.
Yep. Loved my mum's salmon patties, meatloaf, boiled dinner and potato pancakes. She could take hamburger, canned tomatoes, egg noodles and makeone wonderful dinner dish.
I can't imagine eating squirrel! Probably like musk rat though. I know people have eaten that. Daddy caught rabbit, possum and raccoon. Wild just the same. I guess when we're hungry, just bless and eat! (Just don't tell me if it's musk rat or squirrel!)🤣
MERRY CHRISTMAS! 🎄❤️✝️❤️🎄
I miss pheasant hunting with my dad. We'd take a day off from school if he had a mid-week day off from the fire department.
I live in Pittsburgh,Pa. City Chicken is amazing, it's made with beef and pork small chunks on a wooden skewer (like a kabob) breaded and fried. It's usually eaten at Easter in Polish areas around here.
My grandma raised her family during the depression. I'm still enjoying many of her budget meals. One is diced potatoes, sliced okra, and diced onion all fried up in bacon grease.
Yum
I made poor man's stroganoff it turned out well
My grandma used to make a wonderful goulash.
@@tealelliott3870 my dad still loves okra 🤔😵💫😝 but I can't even look at it 😵💫
Same my.mom.had to do it at 5 years old her ma had died.
I've had 6 kids and have never been rich. When I've made meatloaf, I've stretched out using leftover cooked rice. I usually planned meals a day in advance and if l didn't have any leftover cooked rice, l would cook some the day before just for the meatloaf the next day. I never had creamed peas on toast, but always as a side dish. And I've made Chicken A La King not just with rice or noodles but sometimes on toast or with homemade bisquits. My oldest daughter was born in 1975, and my youngest daughter was born in 1999, with four others born in between in 1978, 1979, 1983, and 1989. None of them died from starvation and I never had a lot of money. They ate cheap and now cook a lot of the things l used to cook.
I made "food box" meals. I had to rely on food bank and donations from friends and free school lunch.
God Bless
Hamburger or weenie soup with hoe cakes!
Bacon grease always on dandelion greens sliced hard boiled egga
It’s called city chicken
Cabbage, potatoes and ham are another good meal
Or slice up some kielbasa instead of the ham.
Oh yes!
@@margarettickle9659
Kielbasa good to mix in with rice & beans
Still make this ❤
Colcannon
These ideas are greatly needed these days. No matter how much the politicians lie about how “good” the economy is.
Yeah tell me about it when I came back to the states to visit because I live somewhere else. I was appalled by the poverty and and the cost of living
I thought about relocating there but I can't afford it. It's too difficult to find a job where you're not working three jobs.
The amount of work hours you have to work just to be able to rent an apartment.
We better get Trump into office fast❤
We need to get people to hold these higher up accountable for price gouging. Stop giving the rich tax breaks.
@@meggrotte4760he wants tariffs of 200%+- that would absolutely destroy what limited gains we’ve made after how badly he handled 2020. And how bad his first set of tariffs went. He couldn’t even handle his business without constant bankruptcies, why would he be able to handle something that always fragile like an economy. He’ll send us back to 1930s with his tariffs, they made the Great Depression worse,
@@That.Lady.withtheYarnYou need to do a lot more research. Maybe shut your mouth until you do? Absolutely incorrect in what you are saying.
Well when you have a society where the one percent benefit the most and while inflation rises corporations make more money Yes the economy is doing good it's just the average citizen isn't benefiting from it. cuz you have people like musk, The fact that we have billionaires proves our economy has been fixed to help the wealthy become even wealthier while they get huge tax right offs and benefit from loopholes when billionaires only pay $700 or no taxes at all
My family still cooks those dishes to this day. I like to keep things simple, and it’s the perfect choice for us.
I still love and eat most of these things. My grandmother made creamed chipped beef on toast, I love it!
SOS is great. I've raised 4 and make many of these meals today. I'm worried now though because it's fixing to get bad again and we barely afford these meals. Peace and Love to you and yours.
SOS Love this
I make it even today, but have always preferred it on mashed potatoes, along with a generous helping of hot buttered peas. My favorite "comfort" food!
I loved creamed chipped beef on toast when I was growing up (I'm 71), but a while back when I decided to buy some packages of Buddig's chipped beef to make a batch it was shockingly expensive. When I was young you could buy it for around .39 a package.
It turned out the Buddig's was too salty which I no longer like.
My grandma made that too
Split pea and ham soup is still great! I like corned beef hash for breakfast still!
I make a "end of the week" soup. What ever was a leftover goes into beef or chicken stock, add a few potatoes and beans. My husband's favorite meal.
We make this for Sunday lunch.
I live alone, which can make it difficult to eat fresh vegetables without anything going to waste. I make a clean-out-the-fridge soup the day before I go to the grocery store. It’s so versatile! A little vinegar and red pepper flakes makes it a hot & sour soup. Egg drop soup is easy, or poach whole eggs right in the soup for something different. If I’m feeling fancy I purée all the vegetables for a nice, smooth soup and throw in some milk (or non-milk) or the last piece of cheese. It is never the same twice, and it’s always delicious. 😋
I think that's a really great idea, and I'm going to try it! A genius idea!😊❤
Growing up in Virginia, we call "dinner," the noon meal. In the evening we eat supper.
Me too
Same in Iowa and Wisconsin!!
Breakfast, dinner, and supper!!!
Iowa also. Still do
@AmyWilcox-xb3sb I always thought it was a Southern thing , maybe Midwest too
Missouri too
My grandmother was born in 1911. I was in 1956 . I remember as a child her making my sister and I creamed salmon and peas on toast when we would have sleepovers at her tiny cottage. ❤😊
I still make creamed salmon, but no peas because I don’t like them! It tasted great!
I like creamed peas on toast! I prefer to use frozen peas tho. And a sliced boiled egg or tuna thrown in. Good stuff!! 😋
Throughout the centuries, I believe thick soups were what people lived on. Today we eat more than we need and solid foods rather than thick soups. I love a meal of thick soup, any kind! Wonderful meals that usually dont make you really fat.
I think today we WASTE more than we eat. when people are trying to "cut carbs" and all that foolishness to lose weight, it messes with the body's biology by making people hungrier than usual and thus require MORE calories to sustain themselves. A bowl of rice or pasta goes a long way to keeping people energized, but everyone acts like it's "too fattening". cause it's "Carbs". and throw away half of it. Wasteful....utterly wasteful.
I love green peas on toast, homemade tomato soup, and pickle sandwiches. My grandma was born in 1900 and lived to the age of 98, boy could she cook. She and her sisters had to get up early, eat a quick breakfast, and then get ready to feed the farmhands. She taught my mom but it really is a lost art of some of those dishes. I only wish I was 1/10th of how good she was.
0:18 peanut butter soup is the same as groundnut soup. Ground nut stew originated in Ghana, Africa🤎🖤🤎🖤🤎
Thank you! And it was brought to the south by African slaves. And it is now a staple in Virginia historical hotels.
George Washington Carver was the scientist that analyzed the African food. For nutrition. For healthiness. And that’s why soul food is so good for our soul.❤
Sounds yummy
🎉Exactly 🎉😊😊😊
We made our scalloped potatoes with polish sausage . It was so good and a meal in one pan.
I’m 72. I grew up on my grandma’s depression era recipes. My husband grew up on Southern depression foods. Today we still fix some of those dishes. Tonight it’s pork, fried cabbage and rice.
Me too! Some of my favorite things are recioes my mom and grandma passed down to me.
My mum used to take a bit of hamburger, cook it up with onions and garlic. then she would throw in stewed tomatoes, and egg noodles. I made it for my grandma in law and she loved it!
Sounds delicious!
One quick fix if you want to thicken a soup, or even some sauces - add a handful of instant potato flakes. It thickens instantly and is shelf-stable so I just keep some in the pantry.
My dad is 88 years old , he drove up from Florida this week and told me and my brothers a story that we remember well, about how he would shoot rabbits and squirrels , for his step mom too cook , the depression lasted a long time in the south Virginia and North Carolina
These days the soups and other meals are so expensive in restaurants. So wonderful to make them at home.
Just made a lentil soup for dinner love soup year round
@@happycrabknits9109 Soup is the best. You can throw pretty much anything in there and it's delicious and usually pretty cheap. It's what I make when I have a bunch of veggies, random pantry items, or leftover meat and don't know what else to use it for. It all goes in a pot for soup. Good way to use up ingredients instead of letting them sit in my pantry for 5 years and eventually be thrown away lol.
I love all these foods, I don't even consider many of them depression foods but more comfort food now. My mother use to make alot of these foods as was growing up, I sure wish she was still living so she could make them. Rare she ever used recipes unless it was something new. She made the best pie crusts ever.
I grew up with casseroles and still cook that way now at times.
Casseroles are the best to stretch the food , if U ask me .
I love casseroles.
My father (born in 1910) hated casseroles so my mother never made them. (Except for "turkey tetrazzini" made from leftover Thanksgiving turkey.) My husband likes casseroles because he grew up on them but I almost never make them--maybe once every few years.
I still make spilt pea soup. We love it!
Manys the night we had beans and rice. Served together it had a complete protein which many people didn't get. Pretty much hate it now...but at the time, it was heaven sent. Rice pudding we sometimes had for breakfast, cold or hot. People think the depression magically disappeared in the fifties, but the sad truth is in many places it lasted well into the sixties as it did for me and my folks.
It's both a complex carbohydrate and a complex protein. Even when eaten hours apart.
🤷 Trying to be a frugal wife in the late 80s and 1990-2000 while still making food healthy and tasty, I often did serve brown rice pudding on weekend mornings with breakfast, whether made with cow's milk, soy milk, nut milk or even pureed tofu, always eggs, sugar/honey/maple syrup or whatever sweetener we were using, raisins or apples, spice, alongside eggs or fruit and yogurt; things like hearty bean soups (usually with a good deal of veggies thrown in), biscuits or dumplings or corn muffins and salad, etc, but even back then chicken, beef, and often fish prices were fairly reasonable.
"late 1980s-2000" I meant.
Leek and potato soup or chicken and dumplings! Pure Heaven.
I learned first hand that gravy can cover a multitude of sins (slash that) foods. I have eaten gravy alone as a meal. Also gravy on bread, gravy on whatever you had available, at least it helps get rid of that knawing feeling of being truly & in explicably hungry. As a 60's kid, I never understood why my mom continued to garden & "can" @ home when one could just run to the grocery store. I understood that when she was growing up that the depression hit and food was scarace. Still it never really registered w me until I became an adult and had to do my "adulting" alone because my Mother had passed. Now I wished I had been canning all these years and not have to concern myself so much w what will I eat.
Plus, it tastes a hundred times better....especially tomatoes, green beans and soup mix.
A lot of these dishes brought back some good memories.
Egg drop soup is one of my favorite soups. I make it now with chicken bone broth and free range eggs, very lightly garnished with either a splash of sesame oil and soy sauce, or crumbled bacon and minced green onion.
This is a great video. My Grandmother and my uncles grew up in The Great Depression. Years later she couldn’t touch rice. She was an amazing woman and a phenomenal cook. We didn’t have a lot of money, but she always filled my stomach up.
Peanut Butter Soup is also used today in many West African cultures. I remember a chicken peanut butter soup/groundnut stew that one of our friends made for our family, and I tried to copy the recipe today. It's delicious and filling and can be served with rice or fufu.
Group eating all these Foods. Not because I was born and lived through the depression but because my parents had❤
Curries are also very good for making low cost, nutritious and delicious meal that are able to adjust to a wide variety of ingredients.
They keep showing an old TV but TV didnt come into being until the 1950s, way after the depression! I grew up with parents who made these dishes. Both were very badly affected by the depression. I loved split pea soup, and creamed peas were a standard lunch with tuna in it and maybe some cooked carrots in it as well. And if we had eggs, a hard boiled egg would be sliced in. All served on toast. Yup. Great meals.
Back in the 70's when I was a kid we had a lot of cheap dinners
from sandwiches to soups but we didn't starve. occasionally we
had a fancy meal like macaroni and cheese among other delicious
foods back in the 1970's but thanks for the classic food memories
of the past thank you.😋🧆🍝🍲🍛😋
We didn’t have much, but I didn’t know how hard things really were until I was an adult. We always had balanced meals, but no seconds, or snacks laying around. We worked, and played outdoors, watched very little tv in the evenings, and no one was overweight in most families I knew.
I'm 71. I can only remember two girls in my elementary school who were obese. Everyone was normal weight (not the teachers, though).
Same here. We didn’t eat seconds and there were no snacks
I guess they're considered an "odd food combination" but my mom and I used to eat peanut butter and pickle sandwiches when my parents were particularly tight on money because that's what we had the most of in the cupboard lol. I loved them at the time and thought of them as a treat for dinner, but I didn't realize until I was an adult the real reason we ate them.
😆 I'm French -creole and beans and rice is a staple At my house! Only thing My family uses pinto beans instead of kidney beans my Dad hated kidney beans!❤❤❤❤❤
I use pinto beans, or kidney beans (LOVE them!), or cannellini beans, black beans...anything except butter beans....to make my beans and rice. But I'm just plain old American---English ancestry, nothing remarkable---and I like nearly every bean there is.
I've even used leftover 15-bean soup with which to make beans and rice.
I just made a pot of pinto beans yesterday. Made cornbread today.
@dawniesimon
I hope that you enjoy your beans and cornbread
Did you see some bacon grease in the cornbread?
It makes it taste sooooo good pass the green onion and the cheese please! 😄😄😄
I agree with your dad. Kidney beans are disgusting.
My mom makes creamed tuna with peas over mashed potatoes. And over toast the next day for lunch.
Its made the same way as creamed peas you just add drained canned tuna. And it's still one of my favorite meals
My parents grew up during the depression. We ate these meals regularly. It reminds me of my childhood.
Mine too!
I grew up on navy bean soup, rice pudding, meatloaf, veggie pies, mac n cheese, scalloped potatoes, potato soup, red beans and rice, etc. My mother fed her 10 children with homemade Penn-Dutch meals like smoked pork hock simmered with green beans, onions and potatoes. Also chicken pot pie made in one pot with one whole chicken. onions, potatoes and then once the meat was tender the chicken carcass was removed. chicken meat was added back to the pot. the day before my mother rolled out homemade noodles very thin, let them dry then cut them into bite-sized pieces. These were added to the pot to cook in the broth the next day. I still have that enormous stock pot she used.
Sounds wonderful. I loved all of those dishes....still do, especially homemade soup with homemade chicken stock.
Instead of noodles we had slick dumplings cut in squares thicker than noodles but not like the puffy dumplings great with chicken or peas
My father grew up poor, started working at 14 years old for a circus to help support his family. Way later he became a “mess Sargent “ in the Army, and a Master Chef. He would make the best “Ice Box Soup “ from leftovers in our fridge. That was an amazing task considering we rarely had very much leftovers.
my school friend's mother was itailian she taught me cooking 60 yrs ago, i still make a big pan full and frezze portions
What a blessing!
@@kathymc234 i use olive oil or coconut oil only
My mother grew up during the Great Depression and when I was growing up in the 1970's she would still cook Depression-era type meals and they were good. Fried potatoes and onions, meatless spaghetti except she made her own sauce instead of using store-bought, Spanish rice, and hash.
@@prettybullet7728 hamburger meat and oatmeal with an egg yolk 😉
@@Louis-e6qEven oatmeal is expensive now
Funny my kids prefer spaghetti without meat .. we’ve had tough times of our own beans and rice and deer got us through a very tough winter our kids were small so they didn’t notice how tough things really were
We always had a few gardens thanks to my dad, and his mother teaching him how to grow one.
I cook at home, fast food is very expensive now, and I have gone back to making my own bread, corn bread, pancakes, muffins, bisquits, etc. However, flour and cornmeal have gone up too, but still better and cheaper.
And you can freeze flour, cornmeal, coconut flour, etc., so it keeps a lot longer than when sitting on a pantry shelf. I cook and bake only for myself now, and have done the freezer storage for staples for years. Sure saves me a lot of angst and money.
Do you have a recipe suggestion for a basic bread? I'm just starting out. Thanks
My Parents were from the depression era , I always wondered why they saved everything when they passed.... Now I know, especially what’s going on in today’s world. 🇺🇸Semper Fi
I lost both of my parents when I was 14 and lived with a dear aunt and uncle. After the war my uncle always worked in the food industry as a chef, butcher, etc. He and my aunt taught me how to season food which is really important. She had some small appliances that still worked from the 40's! Things were made to last in those days!
Oh my, these meals are those that we eat so often. Ate them because they are so satisfying. Ate them because they are so good. Try potato sausage soup. Yum Yum good!
I love the simplicity of all these meals. I'm a 70's woman but this was just normal food growing up. Still is my comfort food
Lol 😆 we call the noon time meal dinner too in North East Texas and the evening meal was called Supper
I call noon meal lunch and last meal supper in Illinois 😭😄
@@marygreen2672
Right-I live in Illinois & lunch was lunch & the last meal of the day was supper. We never called any meal dinner but I’ve heard co-workers in Illinois call lunch dinner. Back in the 1960’s I never heard the word dinner used unless you called a meal chicken dinner
We had breakfast, lunch and supper as well. However, a big meal like a roast was called dinner whenever it was served. Typically around 2 pm on Sundays or occasionally at 5 or 6 pm on weekdays, although it was very rare to have a weekday roast.
@revrotunda3206 , I call the last meal supper and I live in Illinois. Maybe people in orher states call it dinner. Oh well. Yes a chicken dinner if u go out to eat😭 I was born in 61. Have a great day and enjoy your lunch and supper😁
I was a 80s teenager and I grew up eating most of this. I cook alot of this today. I never knew.
I love all of these old recipes. Thanks for sharing!!! 😅
I grew up on beans and cornbread and fried taters. Still one of my fav foods. Fried tater sandwiches. Yummo!
I love fried tater sandwiches, bean soup, rice pudding, veggie soup, all the dishes in this video. I'm going to make some gravy, heat up one of my homemade biscuits, and have supper now!❤️yummy!!
Creamed peas on a toast sounds good to me❤
I'm probably "weird," but I like mine on sourdough toast. That little bit of extra tang is just perfect with the creamed peas!
We'd have creamed tuna on toast w/peas.😋
My mother was born in 1915, Dads was, too, plus his dad died in a mine cave in when dad was 11 years old. So I grew up with lots of Depression Era meals. We also had a stove with an oven that barely worked. The back of the oven would often burn the food. The middle part worked just fine, while in the front the food was barely cooked. Thus, mother cooked a lot in a Dutch oven on top of the stove or with a pressure cooker. Sometimes spaghetti was cooked with fried bacon crumbled and homemade sauce. We ate lots of soups made from leftovers. At the time I didn’t appreciate Mother’s creativity with soups or casseroles. We’d have a nice Sunday dinner and have soup or casserole for the next couple of days.
Tomato 🍅 dumplings were a good idea. You took a can of stewed tomatoes and added biscuits cut into small chunks and cooked in the soup pot. Much of what you have mentioned sounds very familiar.Oh, yes, we had bread, cornbread or biscuits with every meal. But we also had other dishes like fried chicken, beef roast cooked in the Dutch oven or pressure cooker. We had tuna casserole, Mac and cheese and Hungarian goulash. Yes, that’s a real dish (I thought she made it up every time she made it).
Being southern we had beans and cornbread with green onion on the side ( and we ate the green tops, too). We also had sauerkraut and wieners and pimento cheese sandwiches, as well as tuna salad sandwiches. Mother made delicious meals. Dad worked at a very good job for a Texas oil company. So we were a Very long way from being poor. We were somewhere in the middle class. But Dad had been poor growing up. He never expected to buy a car or own his own home. Mother’s dad worked for Purina Food Mills as the General Traffic Manager in Kansas City, Mo. He also had a few milk cows and ran a small dairy farm. Mom helped milk cows every morning and evening. So they had different backgrounds and attended High School together. They were married for 53 years and had a happy life together. 😊
I still make a lot of these foods. My grandparents & parents lived through the Depression, so, you learned to make filling meals with what you had on hand.
My mom and dad were born in the very early 1900's. I was the youngest in our family.....Mom use to make a special dinner for company...she would make a large batch of biscuits and pat the dough out in cake layer pans.....then bake them in the oven....mean while she would make a large batch of white sauce and add a can of chopped asparagus and cooked onions..... into the white sauce....then she split the two very large biscuits in half and layer them with the asparagus sauce and stacked up like a layer cake and sprinkle the top with sliced boiled eggs.... Asparagus Short Cake.... everyone loved it. 🎉🎉
Coconut milk? Johnny Cakes pictured recipe. Oops. They probably meant evaporated milk, or powdered milk. Coconut milk was not a thing during the depression.
For rice pudding, my mother added either lemon flavoring or lemon zest, sometimes just vanilla to make it tasty. She loves lemon.
As for carrots and turnips, the flavor is improved by adding brown sugar. Both veggies go better with brown sugar.
I still cook like this is was born in 52 so my mom taught me how to cook all of this stuff but my great grand ma was from Germany and French cooking so all the stuff had sauces and wonderful desserts so not a bunch of food but it was great.you know we Americans are pretty tuff we survived through alot of stuff, but I have always lived with Jesus and he never left us begging for bread. He was always there for us 😊
Dandelion, rocket, arugula, cress, sorrel, chickweed, garlic mustard, chives, wild thyme all grow in my backyard, and if you live in the the US, probably in yours too. If you forage, be sure to wash it all thoroughly and maybe soak in salt water for a minute before rinsing and serving in a salad or sauteing. The addition of a little fresh or dried garlic and onion in the oil offsets and compliments dandelion greens.
People need to stop putting weed prevention on their yards.
I make a salad out of dandelion leaves, and wood sorrel leaves. I organically garden so I don’t have to worry about the pesticides. I’m curious if the other plants you named grow in my area. I’ll have to look them up. I know we still have wild chicory although it’s not as prevalent as it used to be when I was growing up.
When my husband was little his mother made the same meals each week only changing up for holidays. He said he never wondered "what's for supper." His father worked in the coal mines. He had 3 sisters. They had a huge coal-fired kitchen range.There was no furnace, that old stove had to do. Like me, they grew up poor. There was no food pantries, welfare or freebees of any kind. But we made it and didn't bitch and moan either.
You had my interest until those unnecessary words ("bitch," "moan," as if there weren't better words to use).
I havean adult daughter who makes rice just so she can make rice pudding, shefell in love with it at my cousins house,her elderly great aunt who parents, were off the boat from sweeden made it for every gathering!
I buy cooked rice from my Chinese carryout and its better than any gummy rice that I have ever made.
Yep my mom made it with raisins in it. I always remember she put a pan of water in the oven with it to keep it moist. Then warm milk in your bowl with it if you wanted.
I love rice pudding or tapioca pudding. Yum!
Tomorrow I'm making a sausage gumbo with smoked link sausage, okra, tomatoes, onions, celery, bell pepper, homemade chicken stock, and some 'gumbo filet' seasoning mixed in at the end before serving over rice with a crispy french bread! 😋
P.S. I forgot one of the most important things you have to have for gumbo and that's okra! If anyone wants the recipe, I won't leave anything out!
Bear shitt stew, stale bread, soak in milk add a jar of homemade stewed tomatoes, my dad's favorite, he was born in 1918 and lived thru it all
@@leslietittle8968 Wow. You had to make do with what you had! I can't remember the kinds of dishes my grandmothers made for my mother and her 8 siblings, but they had fields of veggies, chickens and I guess some beef. I do remember them saying that everything was very tasty.
Did I miss supper?
@@kathymc234 Girlfriend! I'm so sorry! Next time I'll invite you! I must say it was very tasty!🥘Have you ever made some?
🙏Thank❤You🙏 for the Lovely Wonderful old recipes of the 1920 depression meals! Wonderful video I loved it made miss my old days with my beloved parents grandparents thank you❤
I was raised on these dishes and still make them all today.
We still have biscuits and gravy and we have boiled dinner. Left over went into it. Left over chicken made with biscuits. Yummy
We eat most of these meals with groceries being so high today. Thank goodness not alot of mouths to feed, but GRATEFUL to have something to help with groceries so costly today. Once prices in the grocery store GO UP in cost, they NEVER bring them down. 😢
Thats what im worried about. These prices here to stay.
Great reminders, but how do you keep skipping over chicken and dumplings? They were a staple in my house growing up. Dumplings with anything helped strech the budget and were delicious.
Every nationality has a form of dumplings as Italians make Raviolis & Lithuanians make Koldunai & Cepelinai
Chicken was likely too expensive for many in the depression. Beef was less than chicken.
Green peas with dumplings, tomatoes with dumplings, chicken broth with dumplings. Dumplings are great meal stretchers .
@@norriemcclure5927
I prefer having meat with them. Don’t like gravy & biscuits without bacon or pork sausage. Or just bacon bits on top but to each, their own
Oh my, yes! My mom made the best chicken paprikash ever. There were 8 of us in our family and that dish would be enough to fill our bellies full. So good!
Tuna noodle casserole is still a favorite in my family. We call it tunie-nudie which always makes us giggle. A spring mix I buy for salads has dandelion greens which I discovered when I read the label.
Tuna-nudie 😂
Tunie-nudie 😂
Growing up, we loved it when mom made soup beans (navy beans with a little bacon or ham) and hot fresh bread with butter. Mmmmm!!! It lasted for 2-3 days and we weren't complaining!
My parents went through the depression and I grew up in the 50's. My mother made a lot of these recipes including yorkshire pudding which is basically eggs flour and milk. I still remember Wednesday night was spaghetti night my favorite.
Yorkshires are the best with good gravy….Bisto works❤
We don't know what is coming so these recipes are awesome..
You all been raised poorly...we were raisedby alcoholic parents..so we didn't have much to eat, i was so thin you could see my bones...I was too young to cook and i needed to know how to cook..I stayed will an eating disorder for yrs...i was used to not eating but had my mother stopped drinking she was the best cook...when i would come home from school and there was a boiling pot on our woodstove i knew my mom was sober and a meal was being done...these recipes here i wish i would have known...I'll be sure to keep this channel. ...now my problem is my mate never experienced not having food..they were on the richer side...the bad side of this is that he's fussy eater...i get angry with him...he doesn't like this or that...🙄
I hope you take turns cooking then!
I caramelize my onions in the oven in a cast iron pan. Add chicken fat and a little salt, bake at low heat.
GREAT VIDEO. THANK YOU .I grew up on all of these foods. A depression Era Mom, 9 siblings, no money to spare.,I actually loved all this, except canned corned beef.,I'm 70 years old now and still trying to make a white sauce and white gravy like my mom`s.
It very easy to combine real butter, flour & milk for a white sauce but you have to gradually add the milk & whisk to eliminate the lumps
@@revrotunda3206put the cold milk and flour in a mason jar and shake it up, no lumps ever.
Cover bottom of a frying pan with vegetable oil, med high heat, using Self- rising flour sprinkle flour over oil, depending on the size of the pan 2-4 Tlb spoons, stir continuously and brown the flour( browner the flour the more taste) when it's as brown as you want slowly add milk and stir continuously, it will thinken quick keep adding milk until desired thickness,if it gets too thick, thin out with water a little at a time until desired thickness, salt pepper you're done! My take some practice, but you'll get it, and please use Self-raising flour or your gravy will taste like paste! Hope this helps, my dad taught me how to make this, it's the greatest gravy ever, over biscuits, fried potatoes, mashed potatoes etc enjoy (and I'm 72) God bless.
@@wethepeople7227 thanks for sharing your family’s recipe! I’ll have to try that☺️
Peanut soup is a Southern VA specialty! Garlic, onions, peanuts, cream...it's really delicious.
Actually, the peanut butter soup came from West African peanut stew! There are many recipes for it depending on what region of Africa you came from!😍😍
I love groundnut stew! Chilies, chicken, pb...yum!
Im 56& I live split green pea with a ham hock soup!ill be makeing one as soon as it cools down here!😊
I love soups like split pea & navy bean with ham bone or hocks in them. People ate the skin of the ham hocks back in the day to fill them up & not waste a drop
It is amazing to see that "old us meals" are a great part of old gdr food, where I was born. Yeah, it is often a cheap meal but you had 4-5 kids and no money. I love your videos
My mom used to use left over mash potatoes pancakes. My brother's and I loved them.
My Mom made those too! Loved them!
Same here with my late Mom.
My mother would clean out the leftovers and make a huge pot of soup. She started with a pound of hamburger but chicken works well too. Beef, vegetable, or chicken stock. Then she added everything else. Leftover ketchup (packs from fast food) , leftover spaghetti, vegetables like potatoes, carrots, celery, peas, green beans, leftover beans of any type, corn/cream corn…. she cleaned out the fridge completely as she grew up in the Depression and nothing got wasted.
Personally I don’t add onions or squash but you can try. Rice and noodles burn quickly so she waited until the end to put those in. I add, as my new contribution, “mushroom ketchup “ which is not like the red ketchup but like Worcestershire sauce only better ! It enhances meats and soups and can be ordered from Walmart.
Actually, it's pretty easy to make too!
My late Mom would do the same.
How funny and sweet - My husband and I still eat almost all of the time. Tonight will be ham and pea soup - Yum!! Excellent video - Thank you!
Pick the dandelions before they bud and flower.
Burdock (Carduna), could be battered, breaded or in an omelet
My family to this day makes or made a lot of these dishes. I still love a lot of these to this day!😊
Chicory could also be found growing all over. My grandmother made salads from the greens, cut off and washed the roots and fried them with onions . . . absolutely delicious.
Dandelion roots were also roasted, ground and brewed as a coffee substitute.
Also as a tea. One of my friends makes dandelion tea during dandelion season here in our state, and she freeze dries as much as she can to have throughout our short winters.
And I've seen the flowers turn into some alcoholic beverage.
@@jb6712 that’s interesting. I’ll have to try to make dandelion tea next spring/summer.
Raised by my Gran who went through the British rationing in WW2.. I was born after the war but we had to make the money stretch.. Still use some of her recipes, it was always tasty and we never went hungry, quite an achievement. Thank you for these great recipes, subscribed.
We ate creamed tuna fish and peas and creamed aspargus on toast. I still make it!!
asparagus was and is too expensive 😮
@@geminiecricket4798 growing up we had a huge asparagus patch. We ate it fresh but also canned alot so we had it all year. Now I only buy it fresh, on sale, and always freeze some.
i make scalloped potatatoes,navy bean soup,split pea soup,potatoe soup,meat loaf,spagetti. Ya do what ya gotta do...plus it is healthier and it tastes better.
Ma'am, you make it all sound as if it's so mundane, but those are some of the best meals in America! I know you didn't mean it to come out sounding that way, and if I was a betting woman, I'd wager you make all of them deliciously. I'm 72, been cooking and baking since I was 8 y.o., so know all those foods very well.
I've made all of them, grew up on all of them, and I still make them today, even though I cook only for myself now. All those foods were favorites of my late father and my late son, and they both learned how to make them so that they could have them any time they wanted them, and so they could occasionally have a "Grandpa and grandson cookoff."
Regrow your onions from the ends, get 2for the price of 1😊👍🏻💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼
You can grow more than 2 times. Just trim and let it grow again and again. Make sure to change the water out though or it gets cloudy and gross.
Neat tip!
Polenta! I hated it growing up but if it’s cooked right, I’ll eat it today. Same goes for TOFU.
And here asa1970s child I thought turnip's were a treat in the stew pot!dad was out of wirk frequently, sneaky Mom! They were a gift from her gardening crazy uncle!,our small town😊 grocery store rarely had them.
a lot of them are beloved and everyday dishes here
I remember eating Creamed peas. Sometimes over toast or biscuits. Sometimes with leftover cooked beef or chicken.
Also creamed beef over toast or biscuits
Aka: “S-O-S” 🤗
My mom made most of these dishes. She learned from her Mom who was around in the depression. She taught me how to cook them. She would make the corn beef hash into a soup. Her corn bread cakes were amazing. I’d forgotten that I knew how to cook with actual basic ingredients. Thanks for sharing. Brought back good memories.
My Dad’s favorite was navy beans! Made the whole house stink. He just passed at 94.😂 I always cooked for him but when he wanted navy beans I cooked them at his house.
My father liked to cook tripe....pressure cooker and stunk the house for days....
My dad grew up in the great depression. When I was growing up, we ate about 95% of these dishes and I serve them to my family now too.
Ham and cabbage was another classic - instead of corned beef, it was ham. The 'pot liquor' was amazing and if there was any leftover it went into bean or pea soup the next day.
Well done video, I truly enjoyed it and you kept my attention through the entire thing!
The peanut butter soup makes great sense. Just vegetarian satay without the extra spices. I bet it wasn't half bad
My Mom made the mockchicken legs, but she called them "City Chicken". Now I make them and they are so good.
None of those rolls were Johnny cakes only the ones in the cast iron skillet
Few of the pictures/video matched the narrator's description!