What People Ate to Survive the Great Depression: 20 Frugal Dishes
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Step back in time with Vintage Rewind as we explore the simple yet resourceful meals that helped families survive the Great Depression. Discover how creativity and resilience turned basic ingredients into hearty dishes that sustained millions during one of the toughest periods in history. From dandelion soup to potato pancakes, we delve into the recipes that defined an era. If you enjoy this journey through history, make sure to hit subscribe for more fascinating stories from the past.
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My Dad use to tell us he would as a teen go fishing . Whatever he caught was what my grandmother would fry up. Also bacon grease on a stale biscuit for breakfast or lunch
My Dad's family would eat something similar - dripping (presumably from a roast) on bread.
@@starrtraveler3496 Everyone should have a fishing pole if they are near fish bearing water. Food shortages are in the news all the time and threats of more coming. Many of the European countries are purposely putting their farmers out of business under the guise of the climate hoax. Amazon has many different kinds that fold up and fit in your pocket.
Love this. My Mama grew up during the depression. Her Mama had a garden and shared them to any one that came by. Her name was Liily Pearl Butler. Love that name. Beautiful Lady.
She sounds like a wonderful woman!
What a neat story. My parents were born during the depression too, so they also learned to be frugal. Guess what one grandmother’s name was? Pearl. Lassie Pearl Adkins. She went by Pearl. A simple but wonderful upbringing. 😊😊😊
I love this, it's bringing back great memories of my Grandma's kitchen. I spent a lot of time in that kitchen and ate milk toast often. She used a pinch of salt instead of sugar. I love it to this day. Funny how depression food is such a treat to me.
We are still eating onion sandwiches on cornbread and “hobo stew”.
Ya’ll left out Hoover hogs aka armadillos and squirrel gumbo.
@@Lawson8tor I have a friend that makes squirrel stew.
Been there! Had only flour in the house, so mixed it with water and made pancakes.
Mom made oatmeal for everyone but I didn’t like it so mom made me corn meal mush. I poured a little milk over it and some sugar. When boxed cereal came out, she didn’t have to cook cereal. And we kids loved it!
Many of those gophers were in actuality Richardson ground squirrels.
I made that mock apple pie once and it was just like eating an apple pie! It looked like apples, had the mouth feel of cooked sliced apples and because of the spices tasted like apple pie.
My father grew up in the great depression,his mother would make him guddy, when he was small,it was bread that was chopped up and put into tea, that was it ,he loved it ,and even ate it up to the day he passed, love and miss you daddy❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
My exmother in-law, radishes sandwiches......anyone.....
Dandelion bread
A good handful of clean DANDELION flower petals to make up around 1 cup
2 cups FLOUR
2 tsps. BAKING POWDER
1 egg
Pinch SALT
1-1/4 cup MILK
3 Tbsps. VEGETABLE OIL
1/2 cup honey
Sounds good. Thanks for sharing the recipe
@@VintageRewind-r5n You are welcome. Dandelion tea is something to consider too. It’s made from the roots and green leaves. There are also cookies using Dandelion, similar to a kind of an oatmeal. People during the world wars used dandelions a lot. Just be sure to get them in the wild and not your yard. Yards have always had weed killers on them at some point, etc. and thus contaminated soil. Of course you can grow your own too. EVERYONE MUST learn to grow their own foods. No excuses, everyone can grow hydroponic in their living room if need be. Start with (non-head) loose leaf lettuce and mustard greens and you can be eating in abt. a month. Minimum two gallon water bowl. UA-cam has a lot of hydroponic growers. Learn to be an expert BEFORE you need it to survive. Our gov’t is not protecting us from a grid down, and it’s getting hit constantly, hundreds of times, as the terrorists look for the sweet spot. Iran, China, and Russia have worms all over our grid infrastructure - China is literally running it. Tucker Carlson did a Fox Nation special on it. There is a lot of info out on the issue. 9 out of every 10 people will die. Also watch the documentary, Grid Down, Power Up, with Dennis Quaid.
They ate way healthier then, than now.
Stone soup!
My grandfather said he ate mustard sandwiches. He told me I don't know what it is to be hungry.
Not very nutritious, but I have eaten those voluntarily as a snack, usually at work when faced with a bare refrigerator. Also ketchup sandwiches. I like my condiments 😄
gopher stew doesn't sound all that bad...the lil' buggers eat primarily vegetation.
The butter, lard, sugar and flour are now things we can’t afford. I make a dish called top Ramen. One package for 2 people I cut up a leaf or two of cabbage and boil it with the seasoning package and a lot of water if I have any carrots or other cheep vegetables I try to add them. I also boil one egg in the water after about 7 to 8 minutes fish out the egg and peel it. I then add the egg back and turn off the heat place the noodles in the pot and let it cook in the hot then I divide the noodles and vegetables up place the broth over it and I cut the egg in half and place one half on each bowl. I call it my rent is 75% of my income I wash my clothes in the bathtub, the power bill is up again and gas is killing me inflation stew
If you live in a democratic state there are many programs to help you. Food pantries and such. People don’t have to live like that anymore unless you choose to.
@@cynthiaL1978 most states, red, blue and purple have food pantries and programs. I've lived all over the US and volunteered in most of the places we lived Maine's food pantries SUCK anything past rice OR pasta is freezer burnt and a lot of cans of vegall, Texas has the most amazing ones weekly and you get fresh veg, decent canned goods, actual meat, pet food and you get enough for a week, Florida's are hit or miss at best unless you hit 5 or 6 a week and they're only one day per month etc.
I would’ve starved to death and died in the depression.
😂😂 Right there with you.
Dad ate Lard sandwiches lard to have something to sepeeate the slices of bread
My great grandmother's son was eaten, in Russia during the war. During the depression cannibalism wasnt uncommon
Now there's an idea let's have the youngest son for dinner,,"Son come here".....
@@blancabulgrin5560 not by her… by a criminal who stole him.
@@poshdelux That is so sad!
@@poshdelux I’ve never heard that one before, but it is a threat now because open borders are bringing cannibals in. I have seen old depression era photos of women with signs selling their children because they couldn’t feed them.
True. I have read bodies in US were placed outside along street. Hungry souls were grateful, yet saddened too.
Wouldn't pigeons or birds been better than a rats, armadillos, or anything that moved..........
@@blancabulgrin5560 Pigeons are only in limited areas, mostly cities.
No bologna, kids wouldn't eat leftovers.These times are coming back so we will eat what the Bible says is clean.
It's called being poor in the projects and growing up on welfare😮😢😅
cornmeal mush. And parents went without eating so children could eat. Fathers were gone for years trying to get work. Depressing, sad, and worrisome. Don't romanticize it.
Saving this to a list in case Kamala wins. I don’t like Trump but I don’t like starving either.
@@I_Am_SciCurious LOL. we vote to eat too, LOL.
@@Sam-y5d3j Yeah, we just moved into a cesspit from a really nice place because rent nearly doubled, so we’re paying the same to live in a dump.
Prior to the pandemic the economy was by far the best it’s been in my life. Now we’re paying twice as much for groceries and gas and she’s been in the White House for 3.5 years. If she had a way to fix it, she would’ve done it by now.
@@I_Am_SciCurious I soooo understand what you are going through. What makes me the angriest is that this is ALL STOLEN MONEY from us, so they can redistribute it to parasites that don’t belong here, and we can never get our losses returned. In other words you cannot sue and be restored like you could with other thieves.
Someone just had to go and spoil this whole thread and bring politics into it......thanks a lot!
stop repeating how these recipes are testimonies to whatever.. That got old.
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@@PatNelson-c1g You must be a Democrat. You like to control other people’s free speech.