I always envied the kids whose parents could afford school lunches. Monday thru Thursday we got brown-bagged peanut butter sandwiches and on Friday we got tuna sandwiches. For our special treat we'd get to have school lunch on our birthdays. They were very expensive for most parents back then.
I'm only a couple of minutes in and I'm HOOKED!!!!!!! It is SO SO true about timing/history!!!!!!! "no refrigeration; bathtub gin, flappers, etc.!!!!! " History is SO interlinked!!!!!! Even now, when I talk to my 90 y. o. Mom, I have to remind her (and ME!!! I'm 67 and have a bit of a time understanding such drastic changes!!!!!) that life has changed SO much recently that nothing seems relevant anymore!!!!!!! Relevant to ME!!! It's good to know what others have gone through!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!💖💖🥰🥰✌✌😎😎
I used to make a 2-3 lb meatloaf when my kid were all home. I made it the shape of a donut. That allowed the meatloaf to bake faster and you didn’t need to worry that the middle would not be cooked. I also topped my meatloaf with bacon strips. Debi in Vicksburg, MS. 🥰🥰
One little tip that I have done for many years: Keep your cans of tuna or salmon on the door of your refrigerator (I put the whole 6 pack on the door). That way when you make the salad all your ingredients are already chilled. You can make it on the fly and not have to wait for it to get chilled. Hope this helps some one.
❤ This video I am almost 70 so I can relate to a lot of these you gave me great memories and reminded me of some of my favorites through the years Great job thank you reminding me of some of the things that I haven’t cooked in a while
My grandparents came to america from Italy in the early 1900s. She made meatballs with a pound of ground chuck, 1)2 pound ground sausage and 1)2 a pound ground veal. She bought it from local farmers. She added garlic, salt, plain bread crumbs(made homemade from stale bread she made herself daily and a couple eggs from her own chickens. Mix all ing. and deep fry meatballs to keep in the moisture. It makes a big difference. My grandma grew her own veggies and herbs. For the sauce she used 2 large cans of tomatoes she canned herself and a small can of paste fill paste can with water and add to sauce add garlic, salt and Italian parsley bring to a boil add fried meatballs and simmer for a couple hours. They are bar none the best meatballs you'll ever eat. She made everything from scratch. They were poor like most immigrants hence why they grew everything themselves and traded with other farmers and butchers to get what they needed. It was a hard life but they did what they had to do to survive. My grandfather laid brick his whole life. He made 30 dollars a month. Supported 7 kids in a 3 room stucco house. Try that these days. People have no idea what having it rough means. They'd never survive. I remember as a child in the 60s stomping grapes in big copper tubs. I'd have purple feet for days. He made the best wine ever. Oh to go back to those Simpler times.
In cities, before and during the Depression, every street corner had a store on it. You could go and get your ingredients for a dinner daily. Up into the 70s we had a green grocer type that had a horse drawn wagon. He came through calling out what he had that day. There were certain days of the week for our street. The produce was amazing. He picked it out to sell and the man knew his stuff. You could also make requests if you were having a bbq or dinner for others.
@@vbo9872 They were still doing it in Baltimore 7 years ago. Mainly in areas with no access to stores without a vehicle. In my time they were everywhere.
I would have loved that back then! I remember my mom and dad talking about having the bottles of milk delivered fresh to the porch every morning in Seattle!
@@tammyr2966 Yep, we had a box on the porch, much like a cooler that would hold 2-1gallon jugs of milk that were delivered. Mom didn't have a driver's license and we only had one car, so those little services were essential.
Something Thatt that is really good is make tuna salad cut a beef stick tomato into wedges. Don't cut all the way thru. Place a bed of lettus and place the tomato on the ĺettus fill the tomato with tuna salad. Serve it with some crackers. This is a great cool meal. I love mine with boiled eggs in it too. Just a wonderful refreshing meal and healthy too.
That tuna noodle is a blast from my childhood. Mom used crunched up stale potato chips for the topping. So good!! The meatballs looked great and I've been making meatloaf like you did. You form it into patties, too. Use for patty melts or top with onion or mushroom gravy.
Maria, corned beef hash and eggs were a staple in my house when I was growing up and my mom lived through the 40’s. She would add an extra potato and onion and cook the hash in her electric skillet. I need to make this because it was one of my favorite childhood meals. 😊
I loved this video!! But I have to say, my favorites are the 1920’s through the 1950’s foods. That timeline was REAL COOKIN!! Simple, easy comfort food. And the “COCKTAIL” appetizers were amazing!! My mother would make these kinds of things for Saturday nights, family night, when we would all gather and watch All the good shows on Television. That was the only time we ALL got a glass of POP!! YES, the good ole days 💕🙏🙏
I mix meats for meatloaf or meatballs with a fork too! My mom used oats when we were little kids in the 50’s! Rice, milk, cinnamon and a little sugar for dessert!
Your 1930’s recipe reminded me of a quick easy fast dinner my mom made for us in the 1950’s (before Hamburger Helper). She would brown a pound of ground beef and then add a few cans of undiluted vegetable beef soup - heat it through and serve. We loved this dinner.
I have always eaten tuna and tomatoes, one trick I do is put the can or packaged tuna in my veggie drawer in the frig....that way everything is cold when you serve it...very refreshing, I like either polish or sweet pickles in my tuna, if I don't use sweet pickles I put an apple in it, that is really good....
I was born in the 70’s so the foods are similar to what I had as a kid from grandparents and parents. The best thing about this video is the food memories it brings back to us viewers. 💜 thank you!
I'm telling ya'll to put crushed up potato chips on that tuna casserole and dot with butter...and bake. Oh.. .and that California Dip....add some cottage cheese to it. Trust me it's good...Yummmmm 😊
I just recently found your channel and subscribed. I love your vintage series' and hope to see more. Including regional favorites, from various eras too. I think taking a closer look at categories and learning new techniques (or about them) is interesting and sparks creativity. I've gotten to the stuffed celery recipe and it reminded me of one of my favorite appetizers. It's very similar up to a point. It's softened cream cheese, a TBSP or so of milk, cream, half n half or condensed milk. This is just to make the mixture a bit more smooth. Add jarred horseradish to taste. I've used both hot and mild versions and always start with a small amount adding more as I go tasting along the way. If you don't know people's heat tolerance use mild horseradish. Add in well chopped pimento stuffed olives as you did for the celery. Stir well. These are my two versions. 1) Take individual slices of rectangular pressed sandwich ham. This type rolls easily and is firm enough to hold it's shape. On one long edge of the ham spoon on a rounded 3/4 to 1 inch of the mixture. Roll ham around filling. Insert toothpick 1/2 inch from one end of roll going through to catch the ham on the bottom side. Place toothpicks about 1 inch apart from there. Wrap the rolls and refrigerate until set. Just before serving cut between toothpicks. 2) Slice tops off cherry tomatoes the, using a small spoon or melon baller scoop out pulp leaving a shell. Fill with mixture. Chill then serve. Other options: You can do the same things with 1) homemade Pimento Cheese spread or 2) a thickened version of your favorite dip making it cream cheese based to have the same texture. Flavors galore! 3) Also try cream cheese mixed with well shredded or small dice of rotisserie chicken, a small amount of cream of chicken soup (not too much to keep the texture but enough to taste it. ) Omit milk. Add in some finely diced green onions and red bell pepper or drained, diced and dried with paper towels jarred roasted red peppers. 4) Take your favorite cheese ball recipe and thin it out a bit so it's not so stiff, to have approximately the same soft texture. Using slightly firmed up dips and cheese ball recipes made softer there is no limit to the options you have. Your guests will find your creativity amazing as they taste somewhat familiar (or completely new) flavors served in new ways. One more note for even more creativity. I've used other meats to make the rolls. It needs to be flexible enough to roll but not thin like deli sliced meats. At the deli counter tell them how you plan to use it. Mention the pressed sandwich ham so they can visualize it. Once they understand it's usually always sliced just perfect. Two I've tried are 1) Thinly sliced corned beef spread completely on one side with a THIN layer of hearty mustard (your favorite) mixed with a little mayo to take the edge off. ( Think Dijonaise) Then, in the same fashion as before line the longer side with your cream cheese and horseradish mixture, roll and chill. Then cut. I've made a second version of this one by adding finely diced Kosher dill pickles to the cream cheese mixture. 2) Thinly sliced roast beef spread with a non-drippy (a little thicker than normal) rich beef gravy then filled with scrumptious mashed potatoes. Rolled the same way. These are best served at room temperature. These were a big hit. Everyone wanted more ... especially the kids. Enjoy.
My grams always made meatloaf with oatmeal in a roasting pan shaping like you did. My mom made corn and tomatoes too My sister loved that side. Also elbow macaroni and tomatoes
So much fun &memories. My grandmother taught me all of these Now for the "baked beans" on special occasions we added pine apple. Small can drained. And a little mustard and brown sugar. Always do the meat loaf with oats. Sweet pickles went in the mixes for sandwiches. She said it helped the flavor & and we always had then. Each year we had a big garden. What we didn't eat for lunch or dinner was traded for other veggies. What we had left it was canned. Fruits were canned or used for jam or jelly. My brother and I still do this. My husband thinks we are kind of odd ay first ,now he pushes for us to do it.
I always make my meatloaf using oatmeal!! I am 76 which is maybe why! If you find your pot boiling over, just lay your wooden spoon across the edge of the pot and that will stop it. You don’t have to “boil” your wooden spoon!
I have had a mot of these dishes pkus so many more. My parents were born at the end of the depression and lived through ww2 rationing. So these were comfort foods for them. One other interesting thing my mother does is save her potato water, the water she boiked potatoes in to make bread with the next day.
Great video! The butter in the 1940’s corn and tomatoes dish should have been mixed together with the bread crumbs and sprinkled over the top of the casserole as the crunchy topping.
Goulash was a regular meal in our house growing up in the 1070's! It seems like my mom never made it the same way twice. Vegetables were never included in my mom's recipe. For the tomato soup, she would sometimes use tomato sauce or pasta sauce and she always made it served with some type of pasta, frequently elbows or egg noodles. Like you, Maria,mom always used what she had in terms of tomato product and pasta. There would always be a side salad or a vegetable, so we had the vegetables like were in your receipe, just served separately. 😊
I'm enjoying watching this video and I'm only part way thru right now, but I do agree that the tuna salad has way too much mayonnaise. I feel mayo should only lightly coat, add small amounts at a time. Back to watching.
When I used to eat potatoes, we liked warm potato salad! ( I'm diabetic so I rarely cook potatoes for my husband, grandkids and kids. I miss them sometimes but oh well. No worries!
The Waldorf Chicken Salad sounds more like a Hidden Valley Ranch Chicken Salad by the time the seasonings are added. Sounds good, but not Waldorf, at least not on the west coast. Maybe more Eastern? I'm used to Waldorf Salad being primarily apple, celery and mayonnaise, with or without nuts, sometimes raisins, sweet, not savory. I'll give the chicken salad a try. I have a book I think you'd like filled with recipes and history of Favorite Foods. Covers 1920 through 1990s. Fun like your video.
My dad always made the cocktail wieners with grape jelly and ketchup. ( probably cheaper than chili sauce, and he may have "spiced them up a bit"). Very good!!
I’m an older viewer and my mother used to make almost everything you’d see in a crockpot today in a double boiler… 🙆🏻♀️ She’d have the gas stove burner on the lowest flame you can imagine.
Not sure if any of you this but if you get ground turkey but prefer the taste of ground beef, just add some worchesshire sauce when you are browning the turkey. It makes it taste almost identical to beef.
Hey Maria! Yourvideos inspire me every time and all the way in the Netherlands. I was triggered by the mashed potato and carrot. In the Netherlands, vegetables that have been mashed with potatoes are a national meal, which is mainly eaten in the winter period. We have a potato, carrot and onion variant. You cook the onions just like the carrots with the potatoes. In addition, you also cook bay leaf and cloves with that. You remove these before you start pureeing 😉. Usually we also add pieces of bacon and eat fried cornbeef or a fried sausage on the side. Another variant is mashed potatoes with kale. You also cook the vegetables with the potato with this meal. If you are going to mash them it is nice to put a little mustard through it.
My grandmother used to make that tuna salad... the plating was usually done with the tomato slices fanned out into a star shape and the the tuna salad placed in the middle... it will support the more liquidy tuna.
Egg salad is a favorite. I put my eggs in a sandwich bag and squishing it up. Then add my Mayo and mustard salt and pepper. Mix up and then spoon out into bread. No mess except the spoon for Mayo .
Awww the boys were so cute!!!! I absolutely love all these meals and some of them brought back memories of things my grandmothers made and my parents as well, when I was younger! It got me thinking about what foods we ate in the 60’s and 70’s as a kid growing up during that time! Loved hearing the history and some of these I had never heard of! Definitely going to make several of these! My dad was a commercial fisherman on the West Coast and I remember cans of corned beef hash on the boat and mom making them! Thanks for this video! Absolutely loved it!
I grew up with my mom making meatloaf with oatmeal but not like this. She must’ve alternated it because my dad didn’t like ketchup in it. She still makes it like that even though she’s not married to my father. My step dad would rather have ketchup meatloaf. Though I was born in 1980 and in the mid west I find that most of the foods I grew up with was from the older generations. I do remember my mom trying to cook healthier in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Most of my mom’s recipe changes came with when the channels on tv expanded.
I am almost 70 and i remember a lot of these meals. When my mom made beef soup she used cans of vegetable soup with the beef cubes to make sure we had veggies..
The produce sellers are called Arabbers. They are still in Baltimore where I grew up during my teen years. I really miss those guys. 😀 Here's a video on them still working. Hats off to them. th-cam.com/video/1yto9S08Qxo/w-d-xo.html
I have always used oats in my meatloaf in place of bread crumbs. I believe the recipe I originally found was on the Quaker Oats container. I could be wrong as it would have been over 40 years ago. Yes, I’m old.
These recipes certainly brought back memeries, but are also things I still makevtoday. Instead of corned beef hash, my mom would make ham hash with the fried eggs. My dad wax a butcher so she woukd boil a shank piece of ham and make into several meals. My favorites were slices baked with a gkaze, the hssh and eggs, and pea soup.
Mix corn, tomatoes, sugar, salt and pepper in an 8" square greased dish. Toss bread crumbs with melted butter. Spread over veggies. Bake@ 350 degrees F. for 35 to 40 minutes or until topping is browned and veggies heated through.
OK, for some reason my first comment went poof, so I am going to post it again! Great video. You did an awesome job with the research and presentation on this. How are you don’t have a series on Food Network or Cooking Channel is beyond me! How did your loaf pan get wrecked? I’m a bit behind on TH-cam because the new job still has me upside down and backwards some days and I don’t think I have seen all of your wonderful videos lately.
My GMA made a tomato casserole in the summer she is long gone now but was young adult during depression and through the years. The meatloaf they used oatmeal and made a ketchup, white vinegar and brown sugar sauce to top it for the last 20 minutes. Yummy
My grandma used to stuff her celery with egg salad for holiday meals. The meatbsll recipe I learned has drained and rinsed saurkraut in it with the jelly and chili sauce.
Tuna casserole is my older brother's (67) favorite meal. He is fine if I just serve from the pan instead of baking. Baking it, however, makes it the "best ever!" He often asks for this meal for his birthday dinner.
At the end of cooking time, if you add a tiny squeeze of fresh lemon or lime to your black bean soup, it is like a Chef's kiss. (adjust amount to your taste)
Pennsylvania Dutch means Pennsylvania Germans. There were no Dutchmen involved. Dutch or Deutsch refers to the word German as in "Sprechen sie deutsch" which means "Do you speak German."
What I love ìs in the German potatoes salad, you can swap out the potatoes and pour the sauce of shredded cabbage ( don't cook the cabbage) this is hot German slaw , my favorite. My mom would also add a little red bell pepper in her German potatoes and her goulash. The Guolash is delicious. My grandma used tomato sauce or diced tomatoes ( not soup because it's sweet) love it over mashed potatoes. This great thing is you don't hear yr ago every putting sugar or cayenne pepper in everything. We love our tuna salad like this less mayo.
Thank you so much for the goulash recipe ,my grandmother made it all the time and when she passed the recipe went with her ,she added sometimes elbow macaroni in it .
Has anyone heard of sauerkraut jello salad? The recipe I stumbled upon used lemon jello, drained sauerkraut, chopped green olives stuffed with pimento and chopped pickle. I made it with sugar free jello and a couple tblsp dill relish. It wasn't bad with brats or dogs.
Cocktail parties, a cocktail is the mixed drink parties and they had appetizer's with them which would be the fish sticks, ritz cracker's with fancy cheeses on them.
It's true they didn't have all the spices back then, cooking took longer, ect. But food tasted better n different back then. They didn't have all the, nitrites, nitrates, plus 100s of preservatives we have now. Animals weren't pumped full of growth hormones, plus....... My mom put a beef roast on the stove. And about 6 hours later we ate theeee most tasty meal! Wish I could have food from back then!!
Hi Maria. This was such a fun video! Those are some great recipes. We eat cream cheese and green olive sandwiches on white bread. So tasty! On the tuna noodle casserole, I use crunched up lays potato chips on top. Also, so tasty. Thank so much for this trip down memory lane! Love from Texas ❤
As a German. German potato salad was and still to this day a staple in my household. My great grandmother who a poor immigrant who came over to the states to hide from the nazis So she had a hard time with meats so the potato salad was considered a treat
Meatloaf meal, no, no, no …your corn casserole is your starch ….no rice or potatoes needed …add canned green beans or green salad. This is of era, and more appealing. If you feel you need more starch a baked potato would be best and of era and more appealing🙃❤
Our family was large. My mom was 16 & my dad was 21 when they got married.My mom was 20 when she had my brother & 22 when she had my sister. Then my brother was a senior in high school, & my parents were I in there 40s. My biological mother died & biological father was in a mental Instatution because of vietnam. He tried to constantly kill himself. So he was admitted. Anyway, my brother & me where adopted when I was 4 by our aunt & uncle turned mom & dad. My mom was the Middle School lunchroom manager and thencooked for the public on weekends, and my dad was a farmer. So we had an amazing large garden.We had every kind of beans & peas, plus corn, potatoes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes carrots, peanuts &radishes, plus a separate area for fruit that returned every year. Things that didn't need to be replanted such as strawberries, grapes, blueberries, blackberries, watermelon, & cantelops. Im sure I'm forgetting stuff. My sister in law was a stay at home mom & cooked for the public too. She helped keep the weeds picked. Every summer my dad butchered a pig &a goat. Then my grandparents & my brother paid the butcher. Then the meat was split 3 ways Then right before Christmas my dad butchered a cow. Once again the butchered was paid & the meat was split. We also had a large pond that my dad made sure was well stocked. So if we wanted trout, bass, or catfish we got to go fishing with my brother & the fish were split. But we didn't think it was a way to feed our families. We thought it was a great afternoon with my brother. In our back yard we had managerie: with Turkeys, chickens, ducks, rabbits, horses peacocks, cats, & dogs. Everything but the horses, peacocks, cats, & dogs possible to be eaten.if we wanted something like chicken my mom went in the back yard & wrung it's neck, plucked it, cleaned and cooked it. Talk about fresh within the span of an hour there was a live chicken turned unto fried chicken or chicken & Rice. The veggies were picked every year then it was either canned or frozen. We had a cannery intown that was supported with the school. We had 2 large chest freezers in our utilility house & a standing freezer in the house. My parents had to buy very little. We had a milk cow which gave us milk & butter. Plus we got eggs from the chickens & ducks. An omlete from a duck egg is amazing. We were luckh.wheb everyone else was struggling food wise we were not. That's a snippet of a country girls life. My parents saw single parents that were struggling & they would take frozen &/or canned food and mama would make a few cooked goodies for their families. They We're grateful for what God gave us so they felt it important to share whatever we had alot of. My father passed away during covid of covid. He was 86. My mother is alone. I live too far away to help her, but my brother &other people in the community makes sure she has plenty to eat. For example, this past Thanksgiving we went to my brothers for supper. I stayed a few weeks visiting with my mom. And we had people s j on up with food for her from her friends & neighbors. But that's life in a small town. I live a suburb of Chattanooga now 5.5 hours away from my mom. I don't even know anyone in my neighborhood. Except 1 neighbor that hit my daughter with his truck 6 a.m. while she waited for the bus.we were he 2 years when that happened. He thought we would sue him. He was wrong. Life is so different in different area.
Yummy ideas! If you wet your parchment paper a little and wad it up it will lay better in your pan. I never put my meatloaf in a loaf pan , I form it in a cast iron skillet 🤷🏼♀️ top with ketchup/brown sugar glaze. If you want to hide your oatmeal put it in a food processor until it’s a fine powder no one will know it’s there! Your sourdough bread looked delicious!! Thanks for Sharing!
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Fish sticks were huge in the 1960’s. We had them every single Friday at school. Sides were Mac n cheese and peas.
Perfect! He was right!
Oh yes! Remember it well. Still like them
Lol I had that every Friday in the 80s too. It was cultural acknowledging the catholic students
I always envied the kids whose parents could afford school lunches. Monday thru Thursday we got brown-bagged peanut butter sandwiches and on Friday we got tuna sandwiches. For our special treat we'd get to have school lunch on our birthdays. They were very expensive for most parents back then.
In germany they are often served with mashes potatos and cream spinach. Sometime family are serving this with scrambled or sunnyside eggs too
Tip for cutting soft sandwiches; cut top slice first, place on sandwich and continue cutting...hope I made sense😊
Great idea...thanks...
When we visited Grandma on Sunday she always had a plate of celery stuffed with peanut butter, cream cheese or cheese wiz. We loved it!!!❤
I am 70 years old. To this day I still LOVE corned beef from the can. Put a couple eggs on top and I'm in heaven.
I like to stuff celery with cream cheese and minced maraschino cherries. SO good!
Oh interesting!
I'm only a couple of minutes in and I'm HOOKED!!!!!!! It is SO SO true about timing/history!!!!!!! "no refrigeration; bathtub gin, flappers, etc.!!!!! " History is SO interlinked!!!!!! Even now, when I talk to my 90 y. o. Mom, I have to remind her (and ME!!! I'm 67 and have a bit of a time understanding such drastic changes!!!!!) that life has changed SO much recently that nothing seems relevant anymore!!!!!!! Relevant to ME!!! It's good to know what others have gone through!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!💖💖🥰🥰✌✌😎😎
You’re welcome! I’m so glad you like this!
I used to make a 2-3 lb meatloaf when my kid were all home. I made it the shape of a donut. That allowed the meatloaf to bake faster and you didn’t need to worry that the middle would not be cooked. I also topped my meatloaf with bacon strips. Debi in Vicksburg, MS. 🥰🥰
Mmmmmmmmm...I am going to try the bacon...
One little tip that I have done for many years: Keep your cans of tuna or salmon on the door of your refrigerator (I put the whole 6 pack on the door). That way when you make the salad all your ingredients are already chilled. You can make it on the fly and not have to wait for it to get chilled. Hope this helps some one.
Great idea!
I think that this summer is going to be a hot one, so I am going to do this.
@@Tracylindilou I'm glad I could help. Stay cool.
Great idea...thanks for the tip...
@@catherineannelockman3805 You're welcome.
We had egg salad sandwiches with home made bread just yesterday! We have it with arugula, coz we love the peppery taste with the creamy egg
California onion dip is something i still make all the time. my family loves it
Definitely timeless!
❤ This video
I am almost 70 so I can relate to a lot of these you gave me great memories and reminded me of some of my favorites through the years
Great job thank you reminding me of some of the things that I haven’t cooked in a while
So glad this brought back good memories for you!
My mom always used oats, when making meatloaff, in place of bread crumbs. We also add a bit of prepared horseradish. So good.
Oh yum I love horseradish!
@@MealsWithMaria no one eating it would ever say "Oh I love the horseradish in here" they wouldn't realize, but it's something I won't ever leave out.
My mom always used oats too, and since I am like my mom that's the way I do it. It's always delicious.
I still use oats. It’s yum and gluten free 🙂 oats are a great ground beef extender any time. Even in chili!
My mom also sometimes used crushed soda crackers in her meatloaf 😊
My grandparents came to america from Italy in the early 1900s. She made meatballs with a pound of ground chuck, 1)2 pound ground sausage and 1)2 a pound ground veal. She bought it from local farmers. She added garlic, salt, plain bread crumbs(made homemade from stale bread she made herself daily and a couple eggs from her own chickens. Mix all ing. and deep fry meatballs to keep in the moisture. It makes a big difference. My grandma grew her own veggies and herbs. For the sauce she used 2 large cans of tomatoes she canned herself and a small can of paste fill paste can with water and add to sauce add garlic, salt and Italian parsley bring to a boil add fried meatballs and simmer for a couple hours. They are bar none the best meatballs you'll ever eat. She made everything from scratch. They were poor like most immigrants hence why they grew everything themselves and traded with other farmers and butchers to get what they needed. It was a hard life but they did what they had to do to survive. My grandfather laid brick his whole life. He made 30 dollars a month. Supported 7 kids in a 3 room stucco house. Try that these days. People have no idea what having it rough means. They'd never survive.
I remember as a child in the 60s stomping grapes in big copper tubs. I'd have purple feet for days. He made the best wine ever. Oh to go back to those Simpler times.
In cities, before and during the Depression, every street corner had a store on it. You could go and get your ingredients for a dinner daily. Up into the 70s we had a green grocer type that had a horse drawn wagon. He came through calling out what he had that day. There were certain days of the week for our street. The produce was amazing. He picked it out to sell and the man knew his stuff. You could also make requests if you were having a bbq or dinner for others.
Oh the heart pull for the good things of days gone by.
@@vbo9872 They were still doing it in Baltimore 7 years ago. Mainly in areas with no access to stores without a vehicle. In my time they were everywhere.
Wow how things have changed
I would have loved that back then! I remember my mom and dad talking about having the bottles of milk delivered fresh to the porch every morning in Seattle!
@@tammyr2966 Yep, we had a box on the porch, much like a cooler that would hold 2-1gallon jugs of milk that were delivered. Mom didn't have a driver's license and we only had one car, so those little services were essential.
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Thatt that is really good is make tuna salad cut a beef stick tomato into wedges. Don't cut all the way thru. Place a bed of lettus and place the tomato on the ĺettus fill the tomato with tuna salad. Serve it with some crackers. This is a great cool meal. I love mine with boiled eggs in it too. Just a wonderful refreshing meal and healthy too.
Yumm! Sounds great!
That tuna noodle is a blast from my childhood. Mom used crunched up stale potato chips for the topping. So good!!
The meatballs looked great and I've been making meatloaf like you did.
You form it into patties, too. Use for patty melts or top with onion or mushroom gravy.
Oooo I love the patty melt idea!!!
I just had tuna noodle casserole with crushed potato chips on top. It's one of my favorite things. No peas in mine.
Maria, corned beef hash and eggs were a staple in my house when I was growing up and my mom lived through the 40’s. She would add an extra potato and onion and cook the hash in her electric skillet. I need to make this because it was one of my favorite childhood meals. 😊
I loved this video!! But I have to say, my favorites are the 1920’s through the 1950’s foods. That timeline was REAL COOKIN!! Simple, easy comfort food. And the “COCKTAIL” appetizers were amazing!! My mother would make these kinds of things for Saturday nights, family night, when we would all gather and watch All the good shows on Television. That was the only time we ALL got a glass of POP!! YES, the good ole days 💕🙏🙏
Aw that sound like so much fun!
German potato salad is out-of-this-world good! I can’t eat pork anymore for health reasons. I’m drooling over here!!!
I mix meats for meatloaf or meatballs with a fork too! My mom used oats when we were little kids in the 50’s! Rice, milk, cinnamon and a little sugar for dessert!
I've always wanted to try the sweet rice dish!
Your 1930’s recipe reminded me of a quick easy fast dinner my mom made for us in the 1950’s (before Hamburger Helper). She would brown a pound of ground beef and then add a few cans of undiluted vegetable beef soup - heat it through and serve. We loved this dinner.
That sounds good!!
I have always eaten tuna and tomatoes, one trick I do is put the can or packaged tuna in my veggie drawer in the frig....that way everything is cold when you serve it...very refreshing, I like either polish or sweet pickles in my tuna, if I don't use sweet pickles I put an apple in it, that is really good....
I was born in the 70’s so the foods are similar to what I had as a kid from grandparents and parents. The best thing about this video is the food memories it brings back to us viewers. 💜 thank you!
I'm telling ya'll to put crushed up potato chips on that tuna casserole and dot with butter...and bake. Oh.. .and that California Dip....add some cottage cheese to it. Trust me it's good...Yummmmm 😊
Yes! This is how my mother made it in the 70s!
I just recently found your channel and subscribed. I love your vintage series' and hope to see more. Including regional favorites, from various eras too. I think taking a closer look at categories and learning new techniques (or about them) is interesting and sparks creativity.
I've gotten to the stuffed celery recipe and it reminded me of one of my favorite appetizers. It's very similar up to a point. It's softened cream cheese, a TBSP or so of milk, cream, half n half or condensed milk. This is just to make the mixture a bit more smooth. Add jarred horseradish to taste. I've used both hot and mild versions and always start with a small amount adding more as I go tasting along the way. If you don't know people's heat tolerance use mild horseradish. Add in well chopped pimento stuffed olives as you did for the celery. Stir well. These are my two versions. 1) Take individual slices of rectangular pressed sandwich ham. This type rolls easily and is firm enough to hold it's shape. On one long edge of the ham spoon on a rounded 3/4 to 1 inch of the mixture. Roll ham around filling. Insert toothpick 1/2 inch from one end of roll going through to catch the ham on the bottom side. Place toothpicks about 1 inch apart from there. Wrap the rolls and refrigerate until set. Just before serving cut between toothpicks. 2) Slice tops off cherry tomatoes the, using a small spoon or melon baller scoop out pulp leaving a shell. Fill with mixture. Chill then serve.
Other options: You can do the same things with 1) homemade Pimento Cheese spread or 2) a thickened version of your favorite dip making it cream cheese based to have the same texture. Flavors galore! 3) Also try cream cheese mixed with well shredded or small dice of rotisserie chicken, a small amount of cream of chicken soup (not too much to keep the texture but enough to taste it. ) Omit milk. Add in some finely diced green onions and red bell pepper or drained, diced and dried with paper towels jarred roasted red peppers.
4) Take your favorite cheese ball recipe and thin it out a bit so it's not so stiff, to have approximately the same soft texture. Using slightly firmed up dips and cheese ball recipes made softer there is no limit to the options you have. Your guests will find your creativity amazing as they taste somewhat familiar (or completely new) flavors served in new ways.
One more note for even more creativity. I've used other meats to make the rolls. It needs to be flexible enough to roll but not thin like deli sliced meats. At the deli counter tell them how you plan to use it. Mention the pressed sandwich ham so they can visualize it. Once they understand it's usually always sliced just perfect. Two I've tried are 1) Thinly sliced corned beef spread completely on one side with a THIN layer of hearty mustard (your favorite) mixed with a little mayo to take the edge off. ( Think Dijonaise) Then, in the same fashion as before line the longer side with your cream cheese and horseradish mixture, roll and chill. Then cut. I've made a second version of this one by adding finely diced Kosher dill pickles to the cream cheese mixture. 2) Thinly sliced roast beef spread with a non-drippy (a little thicker than normal) rich beef gravy then filled with scrumptious mashed potatoes. Rolled the same way. These are best served at room temperature. These were a big hit. Everyone wanted more ... especially the kids. Enjoy.
My grams always made meatloaf with oatmeal in a roasting pan shaping like you did. My mom made corn and tomatoes too My sister loved that side. Also elbow macaroni and tomatoes
So much fun &memories. My grandmother taught me all of these
Now for the "baked beans" on special occasions we added pine apple. Small can drained. And a little mustard and brown sugar. Always do the meat loaf with oats. Sweet pickles went in the mixes for sandwiches. She said it helped the flavor & and we always had then. Each year we had a big garden. What we didn't eat for lunch or dinner was traded for other veggies. What we had left it was canned. Fruits were canned or used for jam or jelly. My brother and I still do this. My husband thinks we are kind of odd ay first ,now he pushes for us to do it.
I always make my meatloaf using oatmeal!! I am 76 which is maybe why!
If you find your pot boiling over, just lay your wooden spoon across the edge of the pot and that will stop it. You don’t have to “boil” your wooden spoon!
haha I need to remember that!
We use oatmeal too, it's a great alternative for gluten free.
I have had a mot of these dishes pkus so many more. My parents were born at the end of the depression and lived through ww2 rationing.
So these were comfort foods for them.
One other interesting thing my mother does is save her potato water, the water she boiked potatoes in to make bread with the next day.
Oh I’ve made bread like that! Potato bread 😀
My mom too!
Great video! The butter in the 1940’s corn and tomatoes dish should have been mixed together with the bread crumbs and sprinkled over the top of the casserole as the crunchy topping.
😂 yes! Hindsight is 20/20!
Goulash was a regular meal in our house growing up in the 1070's! It seems like my mom never made it the same way twice. Vegetables were never included in my mom's recipe. For the tomato soup, she would sometimes use tomato sauce or pasta sauce and she always made it served with some type of pasta, frequently elbows or egg noodles. Like you, Maria,mom always used what she had in terms of tomato product and pasta. There would always be a side salad or a vegetable, so we had the vegetables like were in your receipe, just served separately. 😊
she sounds like a great cook and some good memories!
I remember my mom made cream cheese and olive sandwiches when I was a little girl, 50 years ago.
I'm enjoying watching this video and I'm only part way thru right now, but I do agree that the tuna salad has way too much mayonnaise. I feel mayo should only lightly coat, add small amounts at a time. Back to watching.
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Fun video. Thank you, Maria!
When I used to eat potatoes, we liked warm potato salad! ( I'm diabetic so I rarely cook potatoes for my husband, grandkids and kids. I miss them sometimes but oh well. No worries!
The Waldorf Chicken Salad sounds more like a Hidden Valley Ranch Chicken Salad by the time the seasonings are added. Sounds good, but not Waldorf, at least not on the west coast. Maybe more Eastern? I'm used to Waldorf Salad being primarily apple, celery and mayonnaise, with or without nuts, sometimes raisins, sweet, not savory. I'll give the chicken salad a try.
I have a book I think you'd like filled with recipes and history of Favorite Foods. Covers 1920 through 1990s. Fun like your video.
My dad always made the cocktail wieners with grape jelly and ketchup. ( probably cheaper than chili sauce, and he may have "spiced them up a bit"). Very good!!
A classic!!
I’m an older viewer and my mother used to make almost everything you’d see in a crockpot today in a double boiler… 🙆🏻♀️ She’d have the gas stove burner on the lowest flame you can imagine.
Wow! Very cool!
That is cool
For using on a bagel instead of celery, use everything bagel seasoning instead of the garlic seasoning. It is so good!
yum!
We used crushe potato chips on top of tuna casserole...LOL
Not sure if any of you this but if you get ground turkey but prefer the taste of ground beef, just add some worchesshire sauce when you are browning the turkey. It makes it taste almost identical to beef.
Such a great idea!!
Hey Maria!
Yourvideos inspire me every time and all the way in the Netherlands. I was triggered by the mashed potato and carrot. In the Netherlands, vegetables that have been mashed with potatoes are a national meal, which is mainly eaten in the winter period. We have a potato, carrot and onion variant. You cook the onions just like the carrots with the potatoes. In addition, you also cook bay leaf and cloves with that. You remove these before you start pureeing 😉. Usually we also add pieces of bacon and eat fried cornbeef or a fried sausage on the side.
Another variant is mashed potatoes with kale. You also cook the vegetables with the potato with this meal. If you are going to mash them it is nice to put a little mustard through it.
You have some excellent videos. Thank you darling for all of them. 48 as of 4/7 and still learning thanks to you. Hope y'all had a blessed Easter
Thank you! So glad you get something from these!
My grandmother used to make that tuna salad... the plating was usually done with the tomato slices fanned out into a star shape and the the tuna salad placed in the middle... it will support the more liquidy tuna.
Grape jelly and yellow mustard, try it. So good!!!
Loved this one!!!
Egg salad is a favorite. I put my eggs in a sandwich bag and squishing it up. Then add my Mayo and mustard salt and pepper. Mix up and then spoon out into bread. No mess except the spoon for Mayo .
Awww the boys were so cute!!!! I absolutely love all these meals and some of them brought back memories of things my grandmothers made and my parents as well, when I was younger! It got me thinking about what foods we ate in the 60’s and 70’s as a kid growing up during that time! Loved hearing the history and some of these I had never heard of! Definitely going to make several of these! My dad was a commercial fisherman on the West Coast and I remember cans of corned beef hash on the boat and mom making them! Thanks for this video! Absolutely loved it!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it and it brought back memories!💗
@@MealsWithMaria thank you Maria!❤️💕
I grew up with my mom making meatloaf with oatmeal but not like this. She must’ve alternated it because my dad didn’t like ketchup in it. She still makes it like that even though she’s not married to my father. My step dad would rather have ketchup meatloaf.
Though I was born in 1980 and in the mid west I find that most of the foods I grew up with was from the older generations. I do remember my mom trying to cook healthier in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Most of my mom’s recipe changes came with when the channels on tv expanded.
haha the routines we get into!
This was great! I really appreciate the time and effort that went into making it. Thank you. Very fun to watch
I am almost 70 and i remember a lot of these meals. When my mom made beef soup she used cans of vegetable soup with the beef cubes to make sure we had veggies..
The produce sellers are called Arabbers. They are still in Baltimore where I grew up during my teen years. I really miss those guys. 😀 Here's a video on them still working. Hats off to them. th-cam.com/video/1yto9S08Qxo/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for sharing!
My children miss them and cotton candy man for Inner Harbor, everything changed
I grew up with tuna casserole topped with plain potato chips. Very yummy!
Have youhaf bacon tomato soup with potato chips on top yummy
Love this! ❤
Maria, I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for putting all this together. Brought back many memories. Have a blessed and beautiful day 🥰🌹🥰
I have always used oats in my meatloaf in place of bread crumbs. I believe the recipe I originally found was on the Quaker Oats container. I could be wrong as it would have been over 40 years ago. Yes, I’m old.
My mom made stuffed celery with chopped black olives, chopped cooked bacon and cream cheese. It was my favorite.
1/4 c plus half of 1/4 c = 6TBPNS....You can substitute Root beer for dark beer.
These recipes certainly brought back memeries, but are also things I still makevtoday. Instead of corned beef hash, my mom would make ham hash with the fried eggs. My dad wax a butcher so she woukd boil a shank piece of ham and make into several meals. My favorites were slices baked with a gkaze, the hssh and eggs, and pea soup.
Mix corn, tomatoes, sugar, salt and pepper in an 8" square greased dish.
Toss bread crumbs with melted butter.
Spread over veggies.
Bake@ 350 degrees F.
for 35 to 40 minutes or until topping is browned and veggies heated through.
I use this recipe we had Easter Sunday
Now I'm at the cocktail meatballs. Remember chafing dishes and cans of sterno? That's how my mom and her friend did it back then.
Oh cool!!!
Awesome video Maria !😊😘😍
Thank you!
Fun episode!😊
OK, for some reason my first comment went poof, so I am going to post it again! Great video. You did an awesome job with the research and presentation on this. How are you don’t have a series on Food Network or Cooking Channel is beyond me! How did your loaf pan get wrecked? I’m a bit behind on TH-cam because the new job still has me upside down and backwards some days and I don’t think I have seen all of your wonderful videos lately.
I think it's because I keep buying them at Dollar Tree haha. Thank you for your kind comments! I'm so glad you're always watching and here to comment!
My GMA made a tomato casserole in the summer she is long gone now but was young adult during depression and through the years. The meatloaf they used oatmeal and made a ketchup, white vinegar and brown sugar sauce to top it for the last 20 minutes. Yummy
wonderful video, really enjoy the stories also 😊
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Thank you so much Maria! I really, really enjoyed this video! So much fun - and interesting too!❤
My grandma used to stuff her celery with egg salad for holiday meals. The meatbsll recipe I learned has drained and rinsed saurkraut in it with the jelly and chili sauce.
The Flautas are my favorite but I prefer the ground pork.
yumm!!
I add celery, apple, onion, little bit of mayo and dried cranberries if I have them to my tuna. It’s delicious. I eat it on lettuce boats
I absolutely LOVED this video! Thank you so much for the share. Definitely going to make some of these recipes! GOD bless
Meatballs cocktail sauce and cranberry sauce
Tuna casserole is my older brother's (67) favorite meal. He is fine if I just serve from the pan instead of baking. Baking it, however, makes it the "best ever!" He often asks for this meal for his birthday dinner.
aw that's an easy birthday dinner!
At the end of cooking time, if you add a tiny squeeze of fresh lemon or lime to your black bean soup, it is like a Chef's kiss. (adjust amount to your taste)
Yum! Great idea!
Thank you Maria.
great video...I enjoyed all the era recipes...history with dinner, lol
Exactly!
I keep molasses in my pantry for if I need brown sugar in a pinch I make my own with granulated sugar and molasses
Great video! 💯
Pennsylvania Dutch means Pennsylvania Germans. There were no Dutchmen involved. Dutch or Deutsch refers to the word German as in "Sprechen sie deutsch" which means "Do you speak German."
Oh so interesting!
I was going to comment the same. I have Amish in my lineage. The German influence in cooking is because they were German! 😊- Loved the video.
@@hoosiergirl1 I have Mennonite ❤
So interesting to see the different meals for the time.
Thanks for sharing your recipes, these looked very tasty. Y'all have a Blessed day.
What I love ìs in the German potatoes salad, you can swap out the potatoes and pour the sauce of shredded cabbage ( don't cook the cabbage) this is hot German slaw , my favorite. My mom would also add a little red bell pepper in her German potatoes and her goulash. The Guolash is delicious. My grandma used tomato sauce or diced tomatoes ( not soup because it's sweet) love it over mashed potatoes. This great thing is you don't hear yr ago every putting sugar or cayenne pepper in everything. We love our tuna salad like this less mayo.
Thank you so much for the goulash recipe ,my grandmother made it all the time and when she passed the recipe went with her ,she added sometimes elbow macaroni in it .
Fun video! I grew up 🆙 n a lot of these!
Has anyone heard of sauerkraut jello salad? The recipe I stumbled upon used lemon jello, drained sauerkraut, chopped green olives stuffed with pimento and chopped pickle. I made it with sugar free jello and a couple tblsp dill relish. It wasn't bad with brats or dogs.
I love, love, love jello...just can't do it with anything but fruit salad in it...
Cocktail parties, a cocktail is the mixed drink parties and they had appetizer's with them which would be the fish sticks, ritz cracker's with fancy cheeses on them.
Really enjoyed the video.Like your choices and you're fun to cook with in the kitchen
wow- great German Potato Salad....just like my grandma made...
😀 so glad it brings back memories!
It's true they didn't have all the spices back then, cooking took longer, ect. But food tasted better n different back then. They didn't have all the, nitrites, nitrates, plus 100s of preservatives we have now. Animals weren't pumped full of growth hormones, plus....... My mom put a beef roast on the stove. And about 6 hours later we ate theeee most tasty meal! Wish I could have food from back then!!
Hi Maria. This was such a fun video! Those are some great recipes. We eat cream cheese and green olive sandwiches on white bread. So tasty! On the tuna noodle casserole, I use crunched up lays potato chips on top. Also, so tasty. Thank so much for this trip down memory lane! Love from Texas ❤
Blast from the past! Great recipes!
As a German. German potato salad was and still to this day a staple in my household. My great grandmother who a poor immigrant who came over to the states to hide from the nazis
So she had a hard time with meats so the potato salad was considered a treat
Oh wow can't wait to try thesed
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Meatloaf meal, no, no, no …your corn casserole is your starch ….no rice or potatoes needed …add canned green beans or green salad. This is of era, and more appealing. If you feel you need more starch a baked potato would be best and of era and more appealing🙃❤
My mom always served baked potatoes done in the oven with meatloaf...no foil...skin was nice and crunchy...brings back fond memories...
Our family was large. My mom was 16 & my dad was 21 when they got married.My mom was 20 when she had my brother & 22 when she had my sister. Then my brother was a senior in high school, & my parents were I in there 40s. My biological mother died & biological father was in a mental Instatution because of vietnam. He tried to constantly kill himself. So he was admitted. Anyway, my brother & me where adopted when I was 4 by our aunt & uncle turned mom & dad. My mom was the Middle School lunchroom manager and thencooked for the public on weekends, and my dad was a farmer. So we had an amazing large garden.We had every kind of beans & peas, plus corn, potatoes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes carrots, peanuts &radishes, plus a separate area for fruit that returned every year. Things that didn't need to be replanted such as strawberries, grapes, blueberries, blackberries, watermelon, & cantelops. Im sure I'm forgetting stuff. My sister in law was a stay at home mom & cooked for the public too. She helped keep the weeds picked. Every summer my dad butchered a pig &a goat. Then my grandparents & my brother paid the butcher. Then the meat was split 3 ways Then right before Christmas my dad butchered a cow. Once again the butchered was paid & the meat was split. We also had a large pond that my dad made sure was well stocked. So if we wanted trout, bass, or catfish we got to go fishing with my brother & the fish were split. But we didn't think it was a way to feed our families. We thought it was a great afternoon with my brother. In our back yard we had managerie: with Turkeys, chickens, ducks, rabbits, horses peacocks, cats, & dogs. Everything but the horses, peacocks, cats, & dogs possible to be eaten.if we wanted something like chicken my mom went in the back yard & wrung it's neck, plucked it, cleaned and cooked it. Talk about fresh within the span of an hour there was a live chicken turned unto fried chicken or chicken & Rice. The veggies were picked every year then it was either canned or frozen. We had a cannery intown that was supported with the school. We had 2 large chest freezers in our utilility house & a standing freezer in the house. My parents had to buy very little. We had a milk cow which gave us milk & butter. Plus we got eggs from the chickens & ducks. An omlete from a duck egg is amazing. We were luckh.wheb everyone else was struggling food wise we were not. That's a snippet of a country girls life. My parents saw single parents that were struggling & they would take frozen &/or canned food and mama would make a few cooked goodies for their families. They
We're grateful for what God gave us so they felt it important to share whatever we had alot of. My father passed away during covid of covid. He was 86. My mother is alone. I live too far away to help her, but my brother &other people in the community makes sure she has plenty to eat. For example, this past Thanksgiving we went to my brothers for supper. I stayed a few weeks visiting with my mom. And we had people s j on up with food for her from her friends & neighbors. But that's life in a small town. I live a suburb of Chattanooga now 5.5 hours away from my mom. I don't even know anyone in my neighborhood. Except 1 neighbor that hit my daughter with his truck 6 a.m. while she waited for the bus.we were he 2 years when that happened. He thought we would sue him. He was wrong. Life is so different in different area.
You have an amazing story! You definitely know the importance of community and taking care of eachother!
Vietnam was BAD. I understand why he wanted to end his life. US was ambushed....
Great video!!!
Love that you used some canned items! More please!!
Yummy ideas! If you wet your parchment paper a little and wad it up it will lay better in your pan. I never put my meatloaf in a loaf pan , I form it in a cast iron skillet 🤷🏼♀️ top with ketchup/brown sugar glaze. If you want to hide your oatmeal put it in a food processor until it’s a fine powder no one will know it’s there! Your sourdough bread looked delicious!! Thanks for Sharing!