All these memories you folks have of the wonderful cooking your mother did on a budget is a sweet childhood memory. Let it be a reminder to you that all children derve beautiful childhood memories. Hug your kids, tell them you think theyre special. Show them. An extra moment of your time wont cost you much and will live on in your kids memory for them to share with their kids.
@Mihi-Dana-z2x Between the lack of punctuation and the cramming if three ideas into what I can only kindly call a sentence, that post may no sense whatever.
I think that nutritious food is more important. I understand that many families had to buy what they could afford and stretch it. But neither white bread nor Cream of Wheat are renowned for their nutritional value. I also understand that a full stomach is better than going hungry. I have lived from paycheck to paycheck, and there have been a couple of occasions where I hate to eat cabbage salad because I did not have the money to buy groceries and dog food. My dog ate. I did not.
Mom and Grandma made homemade “maple syrup” by boiling sugar and water and adding maple flavouring. I never saw store bought maple syrup growing up. I think I would thicken it with a little corn starch. This brought a lot of memories. Thanks.
From time to time we had rice with our supper and Mother would refrigerate the leftover rice. Then for breakfast we took the cold rice and added milk and sugar and that was our cereal that morning. Delicious.
@tatianaflores1926My parents were depression children and my mom served us many of these breakfasts. Isn't it funny the FDA is telling us cold rice eaten the next day will make us sick? Oh my word!
I still use cold water in my scrambled eggs. Learned from my mom. We enjoy fried cornmeal a mush we other maple syrup. 😊all of these are made in this household to this day. Good things never fail. We walked to school and during the winter arriving at school walking into the cafeteria, where we all gathered before first class, the smell of cinnamon toast and hot chocolate was amazing for this small frozen girl. I have my grandmother’s cast iron skillet using it to this day. Lovely vid. Thank you.
We are so stocked up we have no room at all we are cooking off our stocked up so well we are cooking off stock pile we 20 po10 pound so when my oil run out just refilled don't need to drink decaf coffee
They used to make creamed eggs on toast in the Oregon prison system in the 1960s. I had never heard of it until an ex inmate told me about it, and how to make it. It’s actually really good.
My mom grew up in the depression and she would make this for me, she called it Golden Rod Eggs, don’t know where she got that name. I considered that a special weekend breakfast, not a depression breakfast.
Most of these recipes were daily meals from the middle ages, native tribes, old west days, and for the poorer families in modern times. My family still eats most of these meals. Another depression meal was ham hock and beans, many times the bare ham hock was used for multiple meals with overly soaked beans and enough water to cover. If you were lucky you could add a pinch of salt and sugar during the slow cooking (8-10 hours) Don't forget soups/ stews that were kept simmered and small bits added when able with more water
These depression meal videos always make me chuckle bc this is exactly how many of the world still eats to this day, sometimes even less. The monstrosity of meals Americans gorge down on every day can be divided into a week's down of food for millions around the world. Some people's "depression" lasts eternity. The world is truly unfair.
We always had milk, and bred and butter on the table at mealtime as fillers if we were still hungry, and we never went hungry. My father commercially raised pigs and cattle, and my mother had huge gardens that fed us through the long winters. Since we generally ate what we raised, we never had rice, and a special treat for a week would be a bag of lays potatoe chips or a shared bottle of soda. My mom was a great gardener, cook, and baker as well as helping in the field and barn when we were short and the only things she cooked i didnt like was lima beans and homemade catsup. Shed take harvested navy beans from our fields and wed sort out the dirt, weed seeds and debris and shed store them dry for soup throughout the winter. Her homemade bread and pie were the best.
Remember those most affected by a great depression like 1929 are those who live in big cities. Us country folk know how to survive cause we know how to hunt, fish, grow veggies etc... Prepare by learning these basic survival skills.
I am almost 80. I grew up during the 50’s. And 60’s. We planted a huge garden and preserved in some way what we grew that carried us thru the winter months. Tomatoes and beans for soups stews and chili. Beans also for soups and stews and side dishes. If I need a cucumber for a salad I walked out to my garden to get one. Bell peppers to make stuffed peppers or other dish etc. with the horrible groc prices today AND all the recalls on fresh foods, I rely on my garden desperately. Acorn and butternut squash can last for a few years if cared for properly. A squashed bake as a side or roasted for a squash soup, can’t beat it.
In the 1980’s, I had the unusual experience of living with the most conservative of Amish. These recipes were very common among them. Despite feeding 15 mouths three times per day, nobody went hungry and nothing went to waste. Standard Church Sunday breakfast was coffee soup. It was fast, easy, simple to make. It kept you full, but not overly so, plus the caffeine kept you from dozing off in church. Sometimes it was also made with cocoa, carob, or mixed with coffee for a mocha flavor. It may sound horrible, but one easily developed a taste for it.
It didn’t keep anyone full It was simply a treat Fullness come from satiety, this is from fat, somewhat from protein too but most fat & protein are mixed in nature.
Mmmmm, coffee soup, strawberry soup and navy bean soup topped with a bit of allspice. Fond childhood memories. My parents were Amish and we ate well but frugally.
Being served oatmeal every day is why I stopped eating breakfast in first grade (six years old). I am 69 now and not eating first thing in the morning didn’t hurt me. I had a sufficient lunch and ate dinner with family.
My parents were immigrants to Australia in 1969. We ate a lot of rice as potatoes were too expensive. Every morning my sister and I had a teaspoon of malt, ate bread pudding using stale bread. The saving grace was at school we had free milk. I would volunteer to anyone I would drink their bottle.
@diahill1945 you were lucky. Potatoes as I said were very expensive. My parents were saving for furniture, carpets, curtains. We ate lots of stews so the poor cuts of meat were edible. Fortunately my Mum was a skilled machinist and made my dresses from cheap left over cloth. I had to wear boys shoes because they lasted longer.
My grandmother was a child of the depression. What i find so wonderful is many of the foods mentioned here she did for her children and my own mother did for my siblings and me. Ive used many with my own children and now grandchildren.
These were meal's we grew up on there was 12 of us I'm the youngest my parents would preserve all our food except meat and cheese and eggs we made everything from scratch we had wood stoves and outhouses when I was a kid
I would spend time at my Aunt Jane and breakfast was always a bowl of torn bread and milk and a little sugar sometimes she heated the milk. The ‘50’s were the best.
Oatmeal, grits, biscuits, hot water cornbread, cornbread , cream of wheat, mush, homemade pancakes with molasses (if they could afford it or sugar water) were food staples in poor black homes in the north and south during the depression and afterwards, especially for large families. People knew how to stretch food back then . My mother had 12 siblings & her parents owned their own farm in South Carolina.
My dad in NC had 9 siblings and they were only sharecroppers. They ate oatmeal everyday, maybe with milk then hot water cornbread and biscuits for the other 2 meals of beans and greens, Irish or sweet potatoes, field peas & tea, sometimes ham hocks or even fried ham. I know they ate grits too, but not much as they ate hot water cornbread daily.
…and fed their OWN kids WITHOUT crappy government school breakfasts!!! People that say they can’t afford to feed their children breakfast at home are either LAZY or LIARS. (or both!)
Thank you so much for this video! Im saving it, and some day I'll re-watch it. And I really enjoyed the British narrator they hired for this video! He made it that much more interesting. Thank him for me. I will try to find more of these type videos. They are intriguing until the end!
Lefse… Scandinavian solution for using leftover mashed potatoes. Just add flour till it sticks together and roll out like a tortilla, cook on a flat stove or griddle, roll up with butter and sugar. Delicious.
My grandmother was a child during the depression and 1 of 13 children of a single mother as their father has passed a year prior and I’m amazed how my great grandmother was able to survive and feed so many on almost nothing.
I am 38 years old. I ate so many of these growing up and now have my kids eat this way. My favorite was the rice pudding, but we never called it that. Just milk and rice. My grandma put so much sugar in it, lol. My favorite is when we ate it with bacon. Crumble it up and put it in. My one grandma born in 1920 told me loads about the great depression. My other grandma born 1940 grew up after the war with much better food choices. Still love hearing about it. Thanks for posting.
In our home, mom also made potato diced) with eggs, corn or flour tortillas with butter or stuffed with refried beans, potatoes, bacon and egg, etc. It all depends on our area of the country. And "nopalitos" which is fresh diced tender cactus cooked with onions and tomatoes or scrambled wirh eggs. The nopalitos were a luxury if we did 't grow them ourselves. Amazing how the human endeavor works!
My great grandmother would talk about the olds and how difficult it was. She was born in 1898 and died in 1987. Just imagine what she’s seen and lived through.
My grandmother's lunch that she took to school as a child consisted of a couple of leftover biscuits smeared with bacon grease. Actually, that sounds tasty and comforting
So, instead of adding water to fluffy eggs, my mom added milk and a pinch of sugar to make a custard. She'd fry the custard up to feed us. Take that custard mix and add raisins, spices and bread crumbs and bake it until firm and you have bread pudding. Switch leftover rice for the breadcrumbs and you have rice pudding.
Mom made gravy and biscuits for us every Saturday. It’s what she grew up with in the depression…flour, milk, bacon grease, salt, pepper. all the shots in the video has sausage in it, so not a true representation of the gravy from the depression era described. The actual recipe is thicker and there’s no meat in it, bacon fat to cook the flour in until just light brown, and to add a lot of flavor, then add milk and stir until thickened, add more milk if too thick. Damn it was good. RIP mom.
Our families potato pancakes were make from left over mashed potatoes. What you showed is what we called hash brown pancakes. I was born in 1959. Had most all these for breakfast. The cream of wheat needed to be runny otherwise it felt like eating paste. My granny also made apple butter cake with many thin layers of crepe like pancakes with apple butter between each layer…yum.
I wasn’t alive during the depression and neither was my mother. Most of these meals are similar to what I had for breakfast, or better. And we weren’t poor. It’s funny how every time I watch these depression era food videos it doesn’t look like anyone was struggling. We know people weren’t just struggling, many were starving. You’d never know it by these meals.
My Grandmother, Thelma taught me to cook on the cheap. Thanks to what she ate as a kid and prepared as a young adult during The Depression, I learned to stretch simple ingredients when I came along decades later. She continued to make the money saving meals throughout her life. I drew the line at the soggy bread dishes however. 😂 Also: I still have a covered canister of saved bacon grease on my stovetop.
I also like hot ceresls too sometimes, like cream of wheat, maltomeal, oatmeal, grits, and an old fashioned grainy hot cereal that I was raised on called, wheatena. It tastes gross, if you're a child, but now as an adult, I can appreciate it.
I grew up in the 1980s being poor and my favorite breakfast was bread and milk cereal with a little bit of sugar ehen we had it. I still sometimes randomly crave it but i dont use regular sugar hardly anymore and have none in the house so i dont eat it when i randomly crave it lol
It's amazing how little food it took to feed a family. These days most Americans could eat 2 or 3 depression era whole family meals in just one sitting by themselves. Of course back them it was very rare to find a person weighing 300+ lbs like these days.
Mother fed us creamed egg 🥚 on toast and also creamed turkey Or chicken 🐔 over toast or biscuits depending on the day after leftovers and also creamed chipped beef (Budding brand was 20cents a bag). I still fix these to this day and I’m 65. She was very frugal.
@ in the grocery stores I’ve always found it hanging on wall with sandwich 🥪 meats. It is a very thin salt cured beef slices. Here they are less then 1 dollar but used to get for 25 cents this making the dish feed a lot of people. Or a little more expensive is the dried beef in a jar on shelf. Has a blue lid on it I think. This has to be rinsed well as it is very salty. Take either kind and either dice in very small pieces or cut in very thin ribbon like pieces and set aside. In a frying skillet put 4 tablespoons butter or more or bacon grease or oil get heated and add several tablespoons of plain flour. Do not brown. All this is done on medium heat. After a couple minutes with a whisk start pouring in some milk as the flour thickens very fast. Keep stirring and slowly keep adding milk until the gravy looks slightly loose or slightly thin. Add salt and pepper to taste and the chipped beef. Keep stirring until gravy is a good consistency as this still will thicken. If so add some more milk 🥛 in very small amounts. Serve over toast or biscuits. You can use this same gravy and instead of the beef use diced up chicken or diced boiled eggs or shredded leftover turkey etc. Very simple and extremely inexpensive and feeds a good amount of people. Adjust as you need to.
The ingredients are still cheaper than anything, I'm single living on 1 income and I started using most of these recipes and have been able to save quite a bit of money because of it.
Gravy and drop buscuits are my favorate. Very filling and hardly costs anything to make. Tastes great also. My grand mother had it as a child that the cook made and she had the cook that worked at the family bed and breakfast teach how to make it. Always always save the bacon grease people!!!!
I am in no way against the government, but I still feel like there's no way relief organizations and other groups would be giving all the tips and advice that this video says that they have. It seemed like they didn't want people to just survive on their own, but thrive with everyone's help. It feels like if this happened in present day, there would be nowhere near as much help.
Yes. Mom born in 1928 dad in 1929. Both lived on farms in central Indiana in Boone County. The good thing about being farmers they never went hungry. Grandpa even grew a field of potatoes so town folk could come dig them up.
Ive never found or made cinnamon applesauce as good as moms. After wwii many of the small 20 acre farms werent practical and the small homesteads were combined in fewer farms of ever increasing size. Every small farm had a few fruit trees, but the abandoned houses and trees in the yard usually went under the plow when the small farm was folded into the bigger ones, just like the joads. Mom made sure until she left dad farmed around the orphaned trees from the ghost farm yards for her canning and baking. He didnt like it, but he liked her cooking, so he did it.
One thing people don’t think of when they hear these prices is that during this time jobs were very scarce, no welfare existed so income was very very small. So these prices are still high for the time. I didn’t live during that time but was raised by parents who did but even tho I didn’t grow up during this, I do remember gas prices before the 70’s, generally gas was about $.37 a gallon. Planning for a trip from Massachusetts to California we budgeted $.50 per gallon thinking it would not get that high at that time. When the gas crisis happened the rumors were it might get as high as $1.00! At that time we were hoping to get a job that paid $450 per month! We would have been able to live very comfortably on that income! Our rent at the time was $110! And that was a spacious duplex with a fenced yard! I’ve watched as government got involved making minimum wage regulations etc, people don’t realize the higher wages go the higher prices go so we never get a special profit. But don’t ignore that politicians still get votes by that talking point! People really need to think more before swallowing the propaganda and voting for empty promises doing more harm than good!
At 10:50, they're talking about rolled oats. Well I love eating raw old fashioned oats, even without cooking it! I sometimes like to create pablem, by just putting the raw oats into a bowl, and adding turbinado sugar, (unbleached pure cane sugar, looks like little brown crystals), and then pouring milk over that. Sounds barbaric, but its tasty, like baby food.
You have a chain called Crackerbarrel (i think) and I had meat loaf, biscuits, gravy, and grits, (not alltogethet) loved it. Sorry people, breakfast? Youd get a slice of toast
At 13:31, they say that the depression era people made pancakes out of flour, lard, and water? Well, without leveners like baking powder, and baking soda, then how did the pancakes rise or get spongy, like regular pancakes do?
The dandilion tea talked about in this video, once used as a type of coffee replacement, well, how would you get the caffeine from a flower weed like dandilion?
If the gravy in biscuits and gravy only contained milk, flour, and bacon fat; where did all the sausage crumbles come from? Perhaps you should have shown clips of what depression era biscuits and gravy looked like. What you were showing is the current biscuits and sausage gravy. A far cry from the inexpensive breakfasts served when my parents were teenagers.
My mom, who was a child of the depression, made many of these for our family of 7 while I and my siblings were growing up in the 50s and 60s.
All these memories you folks have of the wonderful cooking your mother did on a budget is a sweet childhood memory. Let it be a reminder to you that all children derve beautiful childhood memories. Hug your kids, tell them you think theyre special. Show them. An extra moment of your time wont cost you much and will live on in your kids memory for them to share with their kids.
Normal life fr all, then extra etc. Who r not lover bf gf married ppl they r never even ok as a nanny in d name of family parents..... It's connected.
Daily love sx attachment etc all truths all appropriate based both bf gf / husband wife married ppl. Else never further rather disastrous fr all ppl.
@Mihi-Dana-z2x Between the lack of punctuation and the cramming if three ideas into what I can only kindly call a sentence, that post may no sense whatever.
I think that nutritious food is more important. I understand that many families had to buy what they could afford and stretch it. But neither white bread nor Cream of Wheat are renowned for their nutritional value. I also understand that a full stomach is better than going hungry. I have lived from paycheck to paycheck, and there have been a couple of occasions where I hate to eat cabbage salad because I did not have the money to buy groceries and dog food. My dog ate. I did not.
Mom and Grandma made homemade “maple syrup” by boiling sugar and water and adding maple flavouring. I never saw store bought maple syrup growing up. I think I would thicken it with a little corn starch. This brought a lot of memories. Thanks.
Wow, this brought back memories.
From time to time we had rice with our supper and Mother would refrigerate the leftover rice. Then for breakfast we took the cold rice and added milk and sugar and that was our cereal that morning. Delicious.
I did the same in the 80's for my children, and I still enjoy it
I forgot all about doing that!
@tatianaflores1926My parents were depression children and my mom served us many of these breakfasts. Isn't it funny the FDA is telling us cold rice eaten the next day will make us sick? Oh my word!
@@deborahasher176 so true!
We do the same but serve it warm, never tried it cold but will now.
I still use cold water in my scrambled eggs. Learned from my mom.
We enjoy fried cornmeal a mush we other maple syrup.
😊all of these are made in this household to this day. Good things never fail.
We walked to school and during the winter arriving at school walking into the cafeteria, where we all gathered before first class, the smell of cinnamon toast and hot chocolate was amazing for this small frozen girl.
I have my grandmother’s cast iron skillet using it to this day.
Lovely vid. Thank you.
I've read that water makes them fluffier than milk. I use water most of the time with scrambled eggs.
Best eggs ever there fluffy I used to have my mom make them I still do .
I spent a lot of time with my grandma, born in 1900, and she made most of these. I didn’t realize they were depression foods. Of course they were. 😊
Same. I did refuse her stewed tomatoes with bread. Ugh.
We never Eati milk if you i ani make biscuits just can't make bread
We love fence toast
We are so stocked up we have no room at all we are cooking off our stocked up so well we are cooking off stock pile we 20 po10 pound so when my oil run out just refilled don't need to drink decaf coffee
I do not any sugar now that is why I stoved eating sugar I am on major diet don't only eating sugar
My mom would make creamed eggs on toast for us in the 50's. I make once in a while and still love it.
that one was a new one to me!
They used to make creamed eggs on toast in the Oregon prison system in the 1960s. I had never heard of it until an ex inmate told me about it, and how to make it. It’s actually really good.
My mom grew up in the depression and she would make this for me, she called it Golden Rod Eggs, don’t know where she got that name. I considered that a special weekend breakfast, not a depression breakfast.
Most of these recipes were daily meals from the middle ages, native tribes, old west days, and for the poorer families in modern times. My family still eats most of these meals.
Another depression meal was ham hock and beans, many times the bare ham hock was used for multiple meals with overly soaked beans and enough water to cover. If you were lucky you could add a pinch of salt and sugar during the slow cooking (8-10 hours)
Don't forget soups/ stews that were kept simmered and small bits added when able with more water
My mom also ‘made’ pancake syrup from light corn syrup and maple extract
WOW that's ingenious❤ thanks
So did mine, in the 1960s-70s.
I still do but with cane sugar so it's non gmo
@@heirloomacres7445 I've done this when backpacking.
My mom made boiled maple flavored sugar water. I always hated that as a kid.
My mother called the eggs in white sauce Eggs Ala Goldenrod. The boiled egg yolks were sprinkled over the sauced toast. We loved it!
These depression meal videos always make me chuckle bc this is exactly how many of the world still eats to this day, sometimes even less. The monstrosity of meals Americans gorge down on every day can be divided into a week's down of food for millions around the world. Some people's "depression" lasts eternity. The world is truly unfair.
We always had milk, and bred and butter on the table at mealtime as fillers if we were still hungry, and we never went hungry. My father commercially raised pigs and cattle, and my mother had huge gardens that fed us through the long winters. Since we generally ate what we raised, we never had rice, and a special treat for a week would be a bag of lays potatoe chips or a shared bottle of soda. My mom was a great gardener, cook, and baker as well as helping in the field and barn when we were short and the only things she cooked i didnt like was lima beans and homemade catsup. Shed take harvested navy beans from our fields and wed sort out the dirt, weed seeds and debris and shed store them dry for soup throughout the winter. Her homemade bread and pie were the best.
Lovely memory
Occasionally B4 church Mom made waffles or pancakes that was living. Sometimes chipped beef gravy Wow
Remember those most affected by a great depression like 1929 are those who live in big cities.
Us country folk know how to survive cause we know how to hunt, fish, grow veggies etc...
Prepare by learning these basic survival skills.
my Irish mother made a lot of great meals she grew up with, you knew what you were doing, that is for sure.
I am almost 80. I grew up during the 50’s. And 60’s. We planted a huge garden and preserved in some way what we grew that carried us thru the winter months. Tomatoes and beans for soups stews and chili. Beans also for soups and stews and side dishes. If I need a cucumber for a salad I walked out to my garden to get one. Bell peppers to make stuffed peppers or other dish etc. with the horrible groc prices today AND all the recalls on fresh foods, I rely on my garden desperately. Acorn and butternut squash can last for a few years if cared for properly. A squashed bake as a side or roasted for a squash soup, can’t beat it.
In the 1980’s, I had the unusual experience of living with the most conservative of Amish. These recipes were very common among them. Despite feeding 15 mouths three times per day, nobody went hungry and nothing went to waste. Standard Church Sunday breakfast was coffee soup. It was fast, easy, simple to make. It kept you full, but not overly so, plus the caffeine kept you from dozing off in church. Sometimes it was also made with cocoa, carob, or mixed with coffee for a mocha flavor. It may sound horrible, but one easily developed a taste for it.
@@mariekatherine5238 I’m super obsessed with Amish recipes. The best of the best.
It didn’t keep anyone full
It was simply a treat
Fullness come from satiety, this is from fat, somewhat from protein too but most fat & protein are mixed in nature.
Mmmmm, coffee soup, strawberry soup and navy bean soup topped with a bit of allspice. Fond childhood memories. My parents were Amish and we ate well but frugally.
Being served oatmeal every day is why I stopped eating breakfast in first grade (six years old). I am 69 now and not eating first thing in the morning didn’t hurt me. I had a sufficient lunch and ate dinner with family.
Love ham hock and beans! Split pea soup too!
we grew up eating polenta in the evening and in the am, fried it and had it with maple syrup. It is yummy
My parents were immigrants to Australia in 1969. We ate a lot of rice as potatoes were too expensive. Every morning my sister and I had a teaspoon of malt, ate bread pudding using stale bread. The saving grace was at school we had free milk. I would volunteer to anyone I would drink their bottle.
I don’t understand as we had potato’s every night the week . Even living on a Junior wage .
@diahill1945 you were lucky. Potatoes as I said were very expensive. My parents were saving for furniture, carpets, curtains. We ate lots of stews so the poor cuts of meat were edible. Fortunately my Mum was a skilled machinist and made my dresses from cheap left over cloth. I had to wear boys shoes because they lasted longer.
For homemade pancakes my mother made the syrup using sugar, water and maple extract. Hot pancakes and hot syrup.
My mom did that too. We hated it, as kids.
My grandmother was a child of the depression. What i find so wonderful is many of the foods mentioned here she did for her children and my own mother did for my siblings and me. Ive used many with my own children and now grandchildren.
These were meal's we grew up on there was 12 of us I'm the youngest my parents would preserve all our food except meat and cheese and eggs we made everything from scratch we had wood stoves and outhouses when I was a kid
I would spend time at my Aunt Jane and breakfast was always a bowl of torn bread and milk and a little sugar sometimes she heated the milk. The ‘50’s were the best.
We had this at my maternal grandparents' house for a snack when we kids stayed with them!
Oatmeal, grits, biscuits, hot water cornbread, cornbread , cream of wheat, mush, homemade pancakes with molasses (if they could afford it or sugar water) were food staples in poor black homes in the north and south during the depression and afterwards, especially for large families. People knew how to stretch food back then . My mother had 12 siblings & her parents owned their own farm in South Carolina.
Also, in poor white homes
I ❤️ fried corn meal mush, also corn meal casserole
I love all of these foods, I basically grew up on this kind of food
My dad in NC had 9 siblings and they were only sharecroppers. They ate oatmeal everyday, maybe with milk then hot water cornbread and biscuits for the other 2 meals of beans and greens, Irish or sweet potatoes, field peas & tea, sometimes ham hocks or even fried ham. I know they ate grits too, but not much as they ate hot water cornbread daily.
…and fed their OWN kids WITHOUT crappy government school breakfasts!!! People that say they can’t afford to feed their children breakfast at home are either LAZY or LIARS. (or both!)
Thank you so much for this video!
Im saving it, and some day I'll re-watch it.
And I really enjoyed the British narrator they hired for this video!
He made it that much more interesting.
Thank him for me.
I will try to find more of these type videos.
They are intriguing until the end!
Lefse… Scandinavian solution for using leftover mashed potatoes. Just add flour till it sticks together and roll out like a tortilla, cook on a flat stove or griddle, roll up with butter and sugar. Delicious.
I absolutely love this , I beg my grandma to tell me stories of the depression still warms my heart ❤❤❤😊
Grew up on Cream of Wheat. Cooked in milk and sprinkled with honey. Great in winter but I eat many times now. Fills you up quickly
Excellent video !!!
chipped beef in white gravy over toast
Still love this.
The Scott's Irish here in Mississippi call it SOS
"Shit On a Shingle" 😆
My mom learned this on KP duty in the Air Force. Yes, it was called SOS.
My grandmother was a child during the depression and 1 of 13 children of a single mother as their father has passed a year prior and I’m amazed how my great grandmother was able to survive and feed so many on almost nothing.
I am 38 years old. I ate so many of these growing up and now have my kids eat this way. My favorite was the rice pudding, but we never called it that. Just milk and rice. My grandma put so much sugar in it, lol. My favorite is when we ate it with bacon. Crumble it up and put it in.
My one grandma born in 1920 told me loads about the great depression. My other grandma born 1940 grew up after the war with much better food choices. Still love hearing about it. Thanks for posting.
In our home, mom also made potato diced) with eggs, corn or flour tortillas with butter or stuffed with refried beans, potatoes, bacon and egg, etc. It all depends on our area of the country. And "nopalitos" which is fresh diced tender cactus cooked with onions and tomatoes or scrambled wirh eggs. The nopalitos were a luxury if we did 't grow them ourselves. Amazing how the human endeavor works!
My girlfriend used to make coffee soup ..torn up bread with left over coffee heated up poured over it
I grew up on that. Never fell asleep at school😊
Yuk
My aunt fed me milk toast when i was a kid.
I loved it. She was born in the mid 1920s
My great grandmother would talk about the olds and how difficult it was. She was born in 1898 and died in 1987. Just imagine what she’s seen and lived through.
I still like milk toast, creamed eggs and sausage gravy biscuits or toast.
In the Bay Area, CA, 18 eggs cost 8-10 dollars….thanks, Gavin Newsom!
My grandmother's lunch that she took to school as a child consisted of a couple of leftover biscuits smeared with bacon grease. Actually, that sounds tasty and comforting
I haven't watched it yet, but there better be no beans in here...
That's on toast for you brits! Yum! 😋
So, instead of adding water to fluffy eggs, my mom added milk and a pinch of sugar to make a custard. She'd fry the custard up to feed us. Take that custard mix and add raisins, spices and bread crumbs and bake it until firm and you have bread pudding. Switch leftover rice for the breadcrumbs and you have rice pudding.
Lol I still make most of these and fried corn meal mush is my favorite!! And I make biscuits and gravy at least once a week
My grandmother made mayonnaise cake. Because eggs and oil in any form work!!
I still do.
@ I did for years until it started tasting a bit mayo to me. But wow was it moist!!
@@karencristobal4999 Not bad in meatloaf though.
@ mmmmmm I hadn’t heard of that. I’m gonna research and try that. Sounds great.
Intrigu8ng, details?
Mom made gravy and biscuits for us every Saturday. It’s what she grew up with in the depression…flour, milk, bacon grease, salt, pepper. all the shots in the video has sausage in it, so not a true representation of the gravy from the depression era described. The actual recipe is thicker and there’s no meat in it, bacon fat to cook the flour in until just light brown, and to add a lot of flavor, then add milk and stir until thickened, add more milk if too thick. Damn it was good. RIP mom.
Our families potato pancakes were make from left over mashed potatoes. What you showed is what we called hash brown pancakes. I was born in 1959. Had most all these for breakfast. The cream of wheat needed to be runny otherwise it felt like eating paste. My granny also made apple butter cake with many thin layers of crepe like pancakes with apple butter between each layer…yum.
Milk toast yummm filled my tummy as a young child in the 60s
I wasn’t alive during the depression and neither was my mother. Most of these meals are similar to what I had for breakfast, or better. And we weren’t poor. It’s funny how every time I watch these depression era food videos it doesn’t look like anyone was struggling. We know people weren’t just struggling, many were starving. You’d never know it by these meals.
You are correct. The servings being shown in the video are bigger than what they usually had available.
Wow. That eggie gravy over biscuits sounds delish!
I've never tried milk toast, but I LOVE S.O.S.breakfast meal!
(creamed chipped beef over toast too).
My Grandmother, Thelma taught me to cook on the cheap. Thanks to what she ate as a kid and prepared as a young adult during The Depression, I learned to stretch simple ingredients when I came along decades later. She continued to make the money saving meals throughout her life. I drew the line at the soggy bread dishes however. 😂
Also: I still have a covered canister of saved bacon grease on my stovetop.
I also like hot ceresls too sometimes, like cream of wheat, maltomeal, oatmeal, grits, and an old fashioned grainy hot cereal that I was raised on called, wheatena.
It tastes gross, if you're a child, but now as an adult, I can appreciate it.
Odd the milk gravy shown has the nonexistent sausage throughout it.
I grew up in the 1980s being poor and my favorite breakfast was bread and milk cereal with a little bit of sugar ehen we had it. I still sometimes randomly crave it but i dont use regular sugar hardly anymore and have none in the house so i dont eat it when i randomly crave it lol
It's amazing how little food it took to feed a family. These days most Americans could eat 2 or 3 depression era whole family meals in just one sitting by themselves. Of course back them it was very rare to find a person weighing 300+ lbs like these days.
My mom still makes these recipes🎉
I used to cut my scrambled eggs with water, because I had no milk! I also had a sourdough starter to make pancakes, waffles, cookies or cakes!!
Mother fed us creamed egg 🥚 on toast and also creamed turkey Or chicken 🐔 over toast or biscuits depending on the day after leftovers and also creamed chipped beef (Budding brand was 20cents a bag). I still fix these to this day and I’m 65. She was very frugal.
Whats chipped beef
@ in the grocery stores I’ve always found it hanging on wall with sandwich 🥪 meats. It is a very thin salt cured beef slices. Here they are less then 1 dollar but used to get for 25 cents this making the dish feed a lot of people. Or a little more expensive is the dried beef in a jar on shelf. Has a blue lid on it I think. This has to be rinsed well as it is very salty. Take either kind and either dice in very small pieces or cut in very thin ribbon like pieces and set aside. In a frying skillet put 4 tablespoons butter or more or bacon grease or oil get heated and add several tablespoons of plain flour. Do not brown. All this is done on medium heat. After a couple minutes with a whisk start pouring in some milk as the flour thickens very fast. Keep stirring and slowly keep adding milk until the gravy looks slightly loose or slightly thin. Add salt and pepper to taste and the chipped beef. Keep stirring until gravy is a good consistency as this still will thicken. If so add some more milk 🥛 in very small amounts. Serve over toast or biscuits. You can use this same gravy and instead of the beef use diced up chicken or diced boiled eggs or shredded leftover turkey etc. Very simple and extremely inexpensive and feeds a good amount of people. Adjust as you need to.
These are nifty But These days we can barely afford the ingredients !!!
The ingredients are still cheaper than anything, I'm single living on 1 income and I started using most of these recipes and have been able to save quite a bit of money because of it.
I've been able to buy flour, sugar, etc and save 50% on my budget
When I was a kid breakfast was for rich people, and now it's for really rich people. 😄
I may try some of them , they look good .❤
Sometimes I have toast with country gravy, (milk, flour, salt and pepper), holds me until dinner. And love corn cakes with syrup.
If only eggs weren't so expensive today.
Gravy and drop buscuits are my favorate. Very filling and hardly costs anything to make. Tastes great also. My grand mother had it as a child that the cook made and she had the cook that worked at the family bed and breakfast teach how to make it. Always always save the bacon grease people!!!!
I am in no way against the government, but I still feel like there's no way relief organizations and other groups would be giving all the tips and advice that this video says that they have. It seemed like they didn't want people to just survive on their own, but thrive with everyone's help. It feels like if this happened in present day, there would be nowhere near as much help.
Cream of wheat is my go to comfort food in the winter!
I still love cinnamon sugar toast and I was born in 1970
I would suspect if you lived on a farm it was slightly different
Yes, my Daddy said they were never without meat, eggs, and vegetables.
Yes. Mom born in 1928 dad in 1929. Both lived on farms in central Indiana in Boone County. The good thing about being farmers they never went hungry. Grandpa even grew a field of potatoes so town folk could come dig them up.
We often had cream of wheat and maybe a piece of bacon...still like it.
Ive never found or made cinnamon applesauce as good as moms. After wwii many of the small 20 acre farms werent practical and the small homesteads were combined in fewer farms of ever increasing size. Every small farm had a few fruit trees, but the abandoned houses and trees in the yard usually went under the plow when the small farm was folded into the bigger ones, just like the joads. Mom made sure until she left dad farmed around the orphaned trees from the ghost farm yards for her canning and baking. He didnt like it, but he liked her cooking, so he did it.
One thing people don’t think of when they hear these prices is that during this time jobs were very scarce, no welfare existed so income was very very small. So these prices are still high for the time. I didn’t live during that time but was raised by parents who did but even tho I didn’t grow up during this, I do remember gas prices before the 70’s, generally gas was about $.37 a gallon. Planning for a trip from Massachusetts to California we budgeted $.50 per gallon thinking it would not get that high at that time. When the gas crisis happened the rumors were it might get as high as $1.00! At that time we were hoping to get a job that paid $450 per month! We would have been able to live very comfortably on that income! Our rent at the time was $110! And that was a spacious duplex with a fenced yard! I’ve watched as government got involved making minimum wage regulations etc, people don’t realize the higher wages go the higher prices go so we never get a special profit. But don’t ignore that politicians still get votes by that talking point! People really need to think more before swallowing the propaganda and voting for empty promises doing more harm than good!
Does anyone find it angering, that the same govt who caused the poverty, then had the cajones and arrogance to give food-stretching tips?!?
It's pretty depressing that today, even according to adjusted prices, such a meal costs a lot more.
we all should learn this
Even in the 60s wed have milk toast for breakfast. The key for taste for us wasn t sugar, it was some pepper and salt
At 8:55, is that corn pone?
At 10:50, they're talking about rolled oats.
Well I love eating raw old fashioned oats, even without cooking it!
I sometimes like to create pablem, by just putting the raw oats into a bowl, and adding turbinado sugar, (unbleached pure cane sugar, looks like little brown crystals), and then pouring milk over that.
Sounds barbaric, but its tasty, like baby food.
The Midwest did not create those potato pancakes. Swap out the fat for oil, those are latkes that their Jewish neighbors probably taught them to make.
Potatoes came from the americas
@ and? What’s your point? They made their way to Europe in the 16th century.
Dad showed us coffee soup- milk and coffee poured over crumbled saltine crackers mixed with sugar. It’s actually tasty.
😮
My Ninnie used to give us crumbled cornbread, mixed with warm milk. Had no idea this came from the Great Depression.
You have a chain called Crackerbarrel (i think) and I had meat loaf, biscuits, gravy, and grits, (not alltogethet) loved it. Sorry people, breakfast? Youd get a slice of toast
My husband loves corn havenut in a while will get some
Victory Gardens were not a thing until WWII.
Love cream of wheat 😊
Whats cream of wheat?
At 13:31, they say that the depression era people made pancakes out of flour, lard, and water?
Well, without leveners like baking powder, and baking soda, then how did the pancakes rise or get spongy, like regular pancakes do?
Either more like crepes or a sourdough batter?
I like sensible questions
My mother made the cinnamon toast recipe that was in this video. My brothers and sisters would have this for breakfast with bananas and milk.
5:06 my mom made this in the 1960's in Appalachia Deep South
I find it interesting how much bacon grease is said to be used when bacon wasn't often consumed.
Well, all good ideas that I grew up with however, your film clips do not always match the commentary. Sorry
My family would crumble biscuits into coffee. I still do.
The dandilion tea talked about in this video, once used as a type of coffee replacement, well, how would you get the caffeine from a flower weed like dandilion?
I'll have to try this dandilion tea.
Ahh, cinnamon toast!
Yes please.
Dandelion root isn't caffeinated but it does supply energy due to its mineral content. Especially if used in conjunction with chicory root. 😊
My Depression breakfast is Whisky and a Hook@@s kisses😂
I miss historical videos that were narrated by actual humans.
Saltines broken up with milk and a little sugar is yummy
If the gravy in biscuits and gravy only contained milk, flour, and bacon fat; where did all the sausage crumbles come from? Perhaps you should have shown clips of what depression era biscuits and gravy looked like. What you were showing is the current biscuits and sausage gravy. A far cry from the inexpensive breakfasts served when my parents were teenagers.
Where can we find the recipes for some of these?
yes, especially the dried apple hand pies!! i have dried apples from my tiny tree…i only get about two dozen apples a year from it!
I'll try to share all the recipes soon
Just Google them. I also got lots of old cookbooks ar garage sales practically for free. Many from.1930s-50s. Or try used book stores
Any Grandmas can probably help you out as well
23:58 I made this just the other day!😊
My dad said gravy and ground beef was called sh*t on a shingle in the navy.
no gluten issues then?
Egg Gravey that's something
lol I’ve never heard anyone pronounce margarine with a hard g