Thank you for another great video! I have watched every video that you have made, I learned how to cook from you! Better yet I can cook outside in a Dutch oven. Thank you so much Kent and Shannon
Thank you cowboy for a trip down memory lane. My grandmother regaled me of many stories about life during the depression and what she and my grandfather did to survive the depression. She taught me how to make food taste good with little ingredients like hoover stew. I laughed to remember her telling me about hoover flags. Thank you for bringing back fond memories of my childhood. God Bless you and yours! Hoover hogs! Lol!
I’m the guy that ran into you and your wife at Miami airport the other week. If you read this, I wanted to thank you for the short but awesome conversation! Was a needed pick me up for my trip. Your humbleness gained you a follower until the wagon’s wheels fall off! God bless!
A Cowboy in Miami. That’s Funny. I’m From California never been to Florida. 70 and sunny here year round. He is a really great cook. I enjoy his videos.
@Daniel-fd3wp Your comment made me smile. I have been to every state except Alaska.I am far from a cowboy, but I live in San Diego. Yes!! Because of the weather. I wear cowboy boots any time I can. And I love the recipes from Kent.
My daddy was born in 1919. He carried that “depression” mentality through out his life. He saved everything! My daddy was a blessing❤️. Praying for those affected by the fires🙁
My father had a drawer full of Bic pens, rubber bands, and lengths of string because he couldn't bear to walk by anything dropped in a parking lot or public building. I don't know for a fact that he rifled through other people's office trash cans, but it wouldn't surprise me. 😂 I learned a lot about what people don't really need from my Depression Baby parents.
My father was the same. He was younger, so his whole childhood was during the depression, and he lost a couple of siblings from childhood illness during that time. First the depression and then the war, he learned to always have a basement full of canned food for emergencies, and things like macaroni & rice you could keep stored for a long time. He kept up that practice till he died.
@@RRaquello I could live for a long time on beans, greens, and cornbread: I may sit alone, but I won't go hungry. 😉 I can also forage outdoors for a meal in most seasons of the year.
There's a channel called Great Depression Cooking that has neat stories from a sweet lady who lived through it. She tells stories while cooking food she often ate during that time period. Sadly, she's passed away. But her channel is still their thanks to her family.
My grandmother lived through the Great Depression and she instilled in all of us to be appreciative of any meal that we would eat. My mother was the same. They were Sicilian ladies who made the best of anything that came our way.
My parents were depression kids and grew up on the farm. One recipe I remember my mother sharing with us as kids was something she called “ pretzel soup”. When her and Grammy went to the general store, there was always a barrel with hard pretzels for sale. The store owner would bang up all the broken pieces and hand them out for free. Grammy would then heat up a pot of milk with butter and also add some fried potatoes and diced carrots, then get it good and hot. Then the pot would be put out on the table with the bowl of broken pretzel pieces, and you would get yourself a bowl of soup and toss in a good handful of pretzels and let it soak while you give thanks to God for a good hot meal and another day of blessings! I’ll still make that soup on occasion just to remember mom and say thanks for teaching us kids APPRECIATION for all we have!
My parents were in their late 40s and 50 when they had me and my sister. My father told me stories of the Great Depression and it made me cry to know how tough they had it. No food, no warm clothes, no shoes and nowhere to turn. My dad learned to hunt squirrel when he was 8 or 9 and it meant meat on the table. Later on, his parents died of TB when he was 15 with 5 younger brothers and sisters. He lied about his age and joined the military so that he could send money to relatives who were taking care of the little ones. He never failed to tell me how excited he was to have 3 whole meals a day and new shoes on his feet. He did 32 years in the military in gratitude. Thanks so much Kent, for honoring those people who struggled through the Great Depression and I'll be making your Hoover Stew. Like my dad, who's long gone I'm grateful every day for everything I have. And it looks delicious. Hugs to you and to Shannon and the woobits.
I almost wretched when I learned that my former in-laws used to put duck fat on bread because butter was unavailable. Also, the mother of a close fried in high school used to be called "Gooch's Best" because her clothes during the Depression were fashioned from the burlap bags that Gooch's grain products were packaged in. Unfortunately, people today don't realize how close we are to history repeating itself. Bear that in mind when you vote in 2024.
The sad part is this was all artificially created. It wasn't that the means to feed everyone just stopped existing. Much of the food was left to rot because they couldn't pay people to harvest. This means that this scarcity was solely the result of the idea that feeding those people wasn't profitable enough. I guarantee there were fat cats during the great depression that had expanding waistlines as you had people starving. Just like now. We produce enough food to feed every person on the planet, but people go hungry because we have to line someones pocket to justify feeding people. Doesn't seem right does it?
My folks were kids during The Great Depression, and it left an indelible mark on them. They taught me the value of a buck, and to be a saver, and I thank God for the life lessons they instilled in me.
Saving is good but you really need to invest for safety. Without hard investments....saved money still vanished or becomes worthless. Wealthy people invest for returns. Poor people save.
I live on a farm in deep South Texas. The local farmers and the feed supplier here have donated an impressive amount of hay, feed, and other supplies to the Panhandle. At least 4 18-wheelers have been filled up and driven up there in a show of support for our fellow farmers and ranchers. We have to help our brothers out!
That looks fabulous and I love the "Shantytown Shuffle", and the unapologetic hats off for our veterans. (My dad was a veteran and he just passed away last month. We had some good heart-to-heart talks, some good laughs, some healthy tears over the last year. So thankful for the time with him.) Speaking of, I'm thankful for the time that you share with us. It's a comfort to hear and know that we'll make it too. I love learning how to cook over an open fire, Wyoming is pretty windy so that's not always an option but it's good info to know. Lol.
When you said "one more day" it reminded me of my Grandmother. When they would can beans and you would hear the lid seal with a pop, she would say "one more day we won't go hungry"!
My grandmother grew up during the Great Depression and her "Hoover Stew" was affectionately called "Slumgullion" by her and my German great grandmother. Here in Indiana my great grandmother made stews like this to feed our family as well as our neighbors and she was known throughout town as "Grandma Hattie" because she fed so many needy people. She was by no means wealthy or well-off in any way. Her husband worked for the New York Central Railroad as a conductor so he was fortunate enough to keep his job and the whole family paid it forward to our community and church. I grew up eating Slumgullion or Hoover Stew myself as a young boy and it was always a special treat because it came with family history stories. Thank you for such a beautiful remembrance of a time of resolve for so many of our families!!
Thank you for sharing this story with us. I’m a young guy who loves history, it’s important that we don’t forget how people lived in the past. My generation has it easy.
Slumgullion is what Ma called it, too (she used the same term for what Cowboy Kent calls "American goulash," which she also called "Hungarian goulash") - she and Pa were children of the Great Depression! 🙂
Awesome little history lesson! My favorite Depression story is from my Granpa (he's 102 and still kicking). He told me that the Depression was so bad, he joined the Army because it was less work than the family business, digging basements with a shovel and buckets.
Hi Cowboy Kent! I watch all of your shows because you are a great cook and you remind me of my Dad. He passed on 8 years ago and I miss his smile, southern accent, little dances, and his hugs. I always look forward to the end of your show when you wrap your arms around and give us a hug. The last couple of episodes you have skipped that part and I miss it. Can you please bring it back? Thanks. Your friend, Joni
My mother's side of the family endured the great depression, Grandma had four young mouths to feed. My Mother remembers walking the RR tracks to the dairy, where they could get free buttermilk, which at the time wasn't thought of as being marketable and the dairy would just dump it out. They would also go to the flour mill/silo and scoop up spilled flour along the RR tracks. Some bacon grease in a skillet, mixed with buttermilk, salt, pepper and a bit of flour, and you had a buttermilk gravy to pour over biscuits. To this day... I still make Grandma's gravy in the cast iron frying pan (that she passed onto me) after I've fried some pork chops. Grandma, with all of her young'un's in tow, made the trip from Western Iowa to California, where they were turned away at the California by the "Bum Blockade", and they ended up in Oregon. To this date, many old timer Oregonians still hate Californians, because of how California turned them away. I really admire you for not letting this bit of history fade into the shadows, and highlighting it with your cooking. Grandma would have been pleased if she was still around. Bless You, Shannon, and all the "taste testers/supervisors".
I'm a huge fan. My grandmother used to make stewed tomatoes and macaroni. This brought back memories. I'm recovering from a very serious health issue. On Sunday night, I had a GI bleed and almost didn't make it. I'm home recovering now, but I have some hard decisions to make for a complete cure . I ask that the family keep me in your prayers. I really believe that prayers work.
Your "Goulash" recipe took me back to my mother's efforts to feed five children in East Tennessee in the early 1950's! My father was a Baptist Preacher with very little money but a big faith in our Father in heaven. We all survived, and Mom's goulash and cornbread was on our dinner table very often! Thanks for reminding me of my past and my blessings today! 🙏
My Daddy was a Baptist preacher from East Tennessee, as well. Not a good paying job, but we were blessed with strong hands and enough space for a good-sized garden. We ate lots of beans and cornbread and goulash was a regular meal around our table. The Lord blessed us and we never went hungry or without a warm place to sleep and we had Godly parents and grandparents with us to set an example. I can’t complain.
They were definitely a tough and resourceful generation. Survived the Depression and then went and did their part in WW2. My grandparents grew up during the Depression, and us kids were partially raised by them. Glad I had that opportunity to be with them so much as a kid, they played a big part in making me into the person I am today. We were surrounded by lots of other good folks from that era in our small town community. We even had an old guy that would come to our school every Christmas in the early 90's and be the Santa for the kids. They called him up for the draft in the final days of WW1, but he joined anyway and went to France and served as a balloon mechanic. People from those older generations had ALOT to them that's sorely missing from our modern society.
Really enjoyed the history of it. My dad was born in 1906 in Chicago, one of 11 children. His dad ran off & his mom was a nurse. She couldn't afford to take care of all of them so she put some in orphanages, my dad being one. Tough times back then for sure.🙏❤ 🇺🇲
My folks graduated high school in '36 & '38, respectively. They were both very frugal people, having lived through both the Depression, and the rationing of WW2. My mom made us hoiver stew much like what you made today, with macaroni, diced tomatoes, cans of pork & beans, and coins of hot dogs. It may have been cheap, but it was good and filling, and all us kids liked it. Thanks for bringing back sweet memories, Kent, and God bless you and yours.
Thank you for educating people about the Great Depression. We are both of an age where our parents came out of the Depression. My mom was 6 when the stock market crashed and most of her youth was spent in the Depression. She had so many stories she would tell us about life at that time. My dad was about a decade older than my mom, he was the oldest child among his siblings and he had to join Civilian Conservation Corps to help provide for his family, then he went from the CCC to the army and WWII.
I remember my grandmothers making meals like this. Sometimes the simplest meals are the best meals nothing fancy and nothing expensive just good food to keep you going.
Dear Cowboy Kent & Miss Shannon, my mother’s father had a job in the depression - he went from from engineer to apartment building janitor/super - but, it also got them an apartment and some money. Every week they made a meal for everyone in the building - spaghetti - not much meat, but a meal - and NO ONE IN THAT BUILDING EVER MISSED THAT FREE MEAL. Like “Hoover Stew” it was low-budget, but it helped folks. Thank you. From S.E.Tenn, you are appreciated.
Growing up we had pasta and beans, no meat pending pay day! Mom and Dad were from the old country; my dad grow up much poorer of the two. We never threw away left overs, and mom baked constantly...I relish growing up in those times when middle class meant a nice life style. Thank you for always mentioning us veterans, too, Kent.
God bless these people who truly suffered and appreciated what they did get....Sad times now with the mess we have become....This world wont ever know what these people went thru but thank you for the history of those times....Blessings to you and Be well.....
I'm 71 years old and my mom grew up during that time. She learned a lot from her Irish mother and always made her seven children, bringing up on her own, a good meal! Thanks Ken, this want to be cowboy loves your videos and the Beagle, I had a Beagle back in the 70's. A great breed! Peter
When I was growing up my dad would tell us stories of being a “hobo” and running the rails, he made hobo stew. It was years later that I realized it was a “story” totally believed the adventure. To this day I make hobo stew (anything in a pot) told the same stories to my children when they were growing up. Being a military family, we HAD to keep it cheap. Good memories.😊
@@brdlysct Learned how to make that in the Boy Scouts, which came in handy when you wanted to make a very filling hot meal with little cleanup after. Didn't need to wash cookware after that, or even dishes if you placed the foil on something stable. Just lay the wrapped foil on something stable, open the it after it cooled a bit, spread it out into an improvised bowl or plate, and eat.
My Dad was 12 years old at the start of the depression. He was in the Philippines during WW2. I was raised on a ranch in eastern New Mexico and with my Grandpa and Dad going through that it was instilled in them and passed down to me to use everything. When we would have to repair a corral or barn we used nails that we straighten out. All the used nails was thrown in a 5 gallon bucket and it was my job as a kid to straighten them out on a old short piece of railroad iron.
I love learning about meals made during hard times. Makes you appreciate what we have today and help you figure out what to make when you dont have a lot to work with. And it may be a combination of me being a young man who survives on whats in the fridge and the fact your an excellent cook but that looks really good.
@@jamestown57 Or butter sandwiches. I've heard people talking about it as a British thing, but it was all over. My grandmother, a nisei(American born to Japanese immigrant parents) told me that in 1920s Hawaii, many of the poorer Japanese kids would have butter sandwiches for lunch, with sugar sprinkled on it(bread, butter, and sugar were all cheap). It was always whatever staples were cheapest. The other kids always envied my grandmother because she had meat in her sandwiches(she was adopted by a factor who gathered crops from collectives and took them to market).
My grandparents were children during the Great depression. I was lucky enough to be raised by them I learned a lot about hard times and getting by. I'd say you're right Kent, There is not a tougher generation. Thank you for this awesome video and some memories
Looks good!!! Yes it's close to gulash. We learned about Hoovervilles in history class and Hoover flags, the empty pockets. Named one of my kids stuffies Bert, after learning more about Hoover. I understood though that he was a engineer that made many innovations that helped folks. Maybe I'd put a pinch of sugar to balance out the acidity from the tomatoe. Just a pinch of sugar in many dishes will bring out the flavor. I've learned to even put it in my mashed potatoes, cartofi piure.
Years ago, I took my father to a restaurant which had rabbit as one of their specialty dishes. I asked him if he was going to order it, and he said "No." When I asked why, he said "When I was a kid, I ate so many of them that I never want to look at it again."
A old wise man once told me told me, that during the great depression if you saw a rabbit hoping down the road it was time to go check on your neighbor.
I've eaten my fair share of wild game, including opossum. The latter is one I'll never try again. Wild game is generally considered to be lean. Opossums are definitely not! So much grease. Revolting.
Great Depression: My late mother was one of 11 children during the Great depression. Her mother would cook anything that walked. Possum, Squirrel, Racoon etc
Yep. When you are hungry, you'll eat just about anything. Growing up i ate a fair bit of rabbit (we raised them, kinda), and squirrel. In addition to the fresh veggies from the huge garden and fruits and berries foraged from the woods. Plus, it was a farm, so we also had chickens, pigs, and cattle. But you don't butcher your animals for meat until they are grown, so harvesting from nature was a way to bolster the protein intake during spring and summer.
My parents were married during the depression and i learned alot from them. My mother made a dish called slumgullion from those days. I make it still. Thanks Kent
My grandfather just turned 92 and he tells me stories from that time. And honestly his lessons from that era that he passed down will stick with me forever.
Just my two cents. My Mom and Dad were born in early twenties and were about 8-10 years old during the depression. When my brother and I were about that old, I started watching them cook suppers. My Mom and Dad could make dang near everthing with just a can of pork ‘n beans, hot dogs, a can of tuna, bacon grease sittin on the back corner of the stove. Can’t tell you how many time we had cream tuna on toast. Most people turn up their noses at that but let me tell you it was gooooood! Hot dogs in pork’s beans was on of my dads favorites. Just cut you some hot dogs into coins, throw em into the beans and you have beans n weenies. The left overs were made into our sandwiches that my brother and I took to school. Many fond memories of cookin back then. Thank you, Mr. Kent for puttin out these videos of the thrilling days of yesteryear.
My mom grew up in Philadelphia during the depression. To economize, her mom, my "Nana" figured out a recipe she called "juicy meats". It's crumbled sauteed ground beef, diced onions and bell pepper, to which some water and flour is added to make a gravy. Also included is a little salt, pepper, thyme, a pinch of cayenne and maybe some rosemary or a bay leaf. It's great on rice, potatoes or macaroni. It seemed the wave of prosperity of the 1950's and 1960's passed my family by, so Mom had to economize, like Nana had done. So she cooked juicy meats for us kids, and we all loved it. Each of us learned the recipe, and I'm sure it continues to be passed down through the family.
Australia here. My grandparents lived through WW2, plus the great depression with 3 young children. My grandfather (Pop) was a mad gardener, so there was always fresh fruit and vegetables to eat. The neighbours would benefit from his garden too. My grandmother (Nana) was an amazing cook who could turn absolutely anything into a meal. I think she would have loved that dish you made. Pop was a policeman. Back then, the policeman and family lived at the police station in a house out the back. The wife would cook the meals for any prisoners that might be in custody. Each time they moved town, it didn't take long for word to get around. When times were really hard, or it was winter and the homeless were doing it hard, they would break the law so they would spend the night in lock up. They knew they would get a great meal and a warm bed for the night. Some would do it every second night. Nana told them, please don't do that, just knock on the door and there will be a meal. They wanted the warm bed too. Being in jail overnight was better than being on the street, I really love simple food. I really liked the look of this. Thanks so much Kent and Shann.
@@gdiaz8827 Although it originated in the United States, the Great Depression caused drastic declines in output, severe unemployment, and acute deflation in almost every country of the world.
@@GamingGuruGabe Yeah, my grandparents lived in a tin shack in the country. 1930s. Then grandad went off to war. Jeez... hard times. Much love from New Zealand. 🙂
Dear Kent: Thanks so much for making Hoover stew. I grew up so poor we didn't much to eat but when we got Hoover stew it was a real treat. I went into the Navy for 31 years. Now I'm a retired 74-year-old fat cat but I still make Hoover stew and enjoy every bite. I always give it a good seasoning with salt and pepper.
This has been a staple in deer camp since I was a munchkin, now a gray beard I stil drive out to where the boys are hunting. And when its getting done, they start comin out of the woods. They eat, jaw for a bit then back to the woods and if its cold a meal like this for lunch is pertty good !
@@garrybradshaw9227 I know it's spelled that way ...lol ok if You don't support Chinner shouldn't You being spreading the word to buy made in the Red , white and blue ? instead boo hooing . do you know what would happen to our own economy if we the people would start buying products made in the USA and start building smaller homes ?
This was a great episode. I learned from my grandparents how to eat good and still be frugal. Just made cabbage/smoked kielbasa/onion and noodles. Delicious!
My Grandparents, both sides, made it through the Great Depression, and one Grandma saved wet clean paper towels and napkins, laid them to dry so she could use them again. It was just something that became so ingrained a habit that it never went away. My mom made that very goulash you mentioned when I was growing up. For reference, I had my 57th birthday a few days back. My mom was an only child, but my dad was one of 13 kids. Hunting, fishing, and gardening kept them fed and got them through. My parents were born in 1938 and 1943, at the end of what's called the Silent Generation, before the Baby Boomers, and my brothers and I are all GenerationX. We grew up with both parents working, which instilled a different kind of resilience and self-sufficiency in us. Small town rural living, with much of the extended family involved in farming, and growing up blue collar, has left an indelible mark on my brothers and I. We mostly couldn't afford to take the car to a mechanic, or hire contractors, so we worked on stuff ourselves. That's a lot harder now with the electronics and computers in our automobiles, but having an understanding of basic mechanics and carpentry plus gardening and outdoor survival has proven invaluable. God bless you and yours Kent, and thanks for all the great videos!
Kent, Thank you for a great recipe! We make goulash too! I am always impressed by what the folks went through in the depression era. My great uncle used to tell us of how they got through. This reminded me of him. Thanks for all you do! Lots of love from northern lower Michigan!
I'm 63 yo-Gramma & Mom both went through the Great Depression In Nebraska & Wyoming. Learned many recipes passed down, but this was one of the ultimate comfort foods growing up-Mom called it "Soupy Red Elbows" usually with deer or elk, sometimes hamburger. Thanks for bringing back those memories!
Both of my parents were Depression survivors, and my dad grew up on the Grapes of Wrath trail back and forth between northwest Arkansas and Southern California. My mom’s parents farmed, and her dad was a school principal, in outstate Minnesota. Some of my earliest memories are of trying to get my white haired elders to teach me what it was like. Most of them didn’t want to even think about what they had gone through. I’m grieved that I didn’t learn more from them.
@@debluetailfly I seriously doubt that they were unwilling to teach me, it was that the memories were too painful and they didn’t want to deal with them again.
Father in law was raised during the depression, his father died and he took care of his mom, brothers and sisters.. what a man! Thanks for reminding us of how lucky we are today, even when we think it's bad, nowhere near bad yet.
We're getting to the point where we're actively letting it get that bad. Look at all the migrants that are literally grilling rats on the sidewalks of new york. These people do not uplife our style of living, they drain our tax dollars while they normalize poverty. Pay attention. Just because ur making more money doesn't mean u have equal buying power as u did 3 years ago.
I made this a few days ago with the original ingredients - macaroni, stewed tomatoes, and sliced hot dogs (with salt added at the end). It was delicious. My family is full of picky eaters, and they loved it. Stewed tomatoes have such a better taste when compared to most spaghetti sauces. I bought and made one pound of macaroni, with two cans of stewed tomatoes, and 4 hot dogs for a total of $2.73. I already had salt in the house. 🙂
Kent and shanon thanks for being part of our family and friendship, love your videos, meals and stories, appreciate you folks from the mid west united states, never taking for granted your time and energy with great patience towards all of us, GODS LOVE TO YOU ALL, SINCERLY
Grandparents and parents lived during the depression and although times were better my childhood was pretty poor. Lots of times there was little to no meat. Ate a lot of macaroni plain with butter. Fortunately we had a couple of cows and a big garden. So thankful now for what I learned and experienced. Today's Americans have little idea how fortunate they are. Thanks for sharing and bless you. PS: I can still hear Lincoln screaming!
Another awesome episode with food during the depression era which my grandparents and parents lived in here in Oklahoma and they had gardens which they used various vegetables in stews as well as with various meats have a great week and Thanks again Kent.🇺🇲🍲🍲🤠🐶🍲🍲🇺🇲
This is fantastic! I have 19 & 17 year old boys (the youngest adopted from a foreign country) and they will both watch this with me as I tell them about our family history. They have both been to all 50 states as part of me and my wife's desire to show them the true look of freedom. This vid plays right into that lesson. SOOOO thankful that you have been spared of the wildfires! I will be praying for all of those folks.
My dad grew up in Hong Kong and was born during WW2. He has many stories of penny pinching meals that his Chinese family experienced during those times. Watching these recipes reminds me of my old man, thanks.
Oh, my. Blessings to you and Shannon for these historical videos. Younger beautiful families just don't understand really hard times. Hopefully, it won't be too rough ahead.
Thank you for praying for the Panhandle people. I live in Amarillo and we didn’t get it but so many of our surrounding towns did. They have had such an outpouring of loving caring people and yes prayers are the best! God Bless you and Shannon ❤🙏
Yeah, i still get a cravin for goolash bout once or twice a year. I do spaghetti tho and home canned tomatoes, ground beef and onions...always must have onions or just aint right taste. Im 60 now, but this cheap meal saw me thru many a mealess days in my childhood. It was my only meal foe many years. I do love it tho. Thanks Kent
Cowboy my Dad came through the depression and he told us there were times all they had to eat was baking powder biscuits and milk gravy. They were darn glad to have that.
My grandma was born weeks before the stock market crash. My grandpap was born in March of 1930. They were just babies when this was happening, but they did tell me some of what it was like as they were growing up. The Great Depression had a big impact on their parents and its because of that that they were raised a certain way. Both of my grandparents are gone now, but this made me think of them. Thank you, Mr. Rollins!
The stewed tomatoes and beans with the sausage reminds me of a canned food we have here in the UK, Baked Beans in tomato sauce with Sausages. I wonder if Heinz created it as a way to quickly make Hoover stew for WW2 years.
Thanks for talking about the depression period. It is bitter sweet to hear those stories. Courage, perseverance, faith in God got them through it along with Yankee ingenuity.
*_Thank you so much for share your amazing recipes with us. That's a coincidence! I was reading about the great depression, two days ago._* *_God bless you and your family american grandfather._* 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🙏🏻
@@CowboyKentRollins*_Grandpa, I was reading about the Great Depression because sometimes I have strange dreams, in which people in white take me to an underground place and show me plantations, there are many people working on these plantations. The man who was taking me around the place told me that we must prepare for the great famine, because there will be a global financial collapse, money will lose its value, no one will be able to buy or sell anymore, and the only way for us to survive is by farming our own food. These dreams occasionally recur and I always wake up scared._*
I fear that we'll get there again in my lifetime. I'm blessed to have access to a family farm in very fertile river bottom land, my grandparents survived on it through the great depression, and I raise rabbits, chickens, ducks, and an extensive garden on it now, and can a GREAT deal of what I grow/raise the same way my granny (still kicking at 101 years old next week) showed me how to do. I can hunt and clean game, too, and I'm grateful for all that knowledge in case it gets bad again. I stockpile my produce so that I don't have to worry if things go south, at least for a little while, and more than I can use in case anyone needs help.
In my family the hard times came later, when grandpa got hit while on the road, with 7 children at home. There was a 1950's depression for the family immediately. Those type of things make everyone who claims to be a victim of society sound like an idiot today. Great video , thank you.
Thanks Kent for this video. Our young'uns don't know what it is to suffer a bit, unless you consider an internet outage "suffering". There are many heros that have shaped our country so let's not forget them! !! !!!
Born in 1987 my friend trust me I do know what suffering is. Starting with 9/11, wars at every turn even lost a few friends, Housing crash 2012, oil crashes, covid, inflation, loan interest rates… now sir tell me what you know about suffering… however most of my suffering came from parents that are probably somewhere in your age and the ones currently running the country… y’all baby boomers just don’t know how well y’all had it. Now you can’t let go… boomers are some of the most selfish I think in American history… most of y’all still raise your grown kids and their kids… trust me mine will be raised right we homestead.
@@Sniperboy5551 well I guess every man who disagrees with someone or something started with an argument. 36 is young?! Heck 45 is young too. Im not sure I understand what youngins he’s talking about. I have four youngins and they are 5 6 11 and 12 and they have bottle fed claves goats and raised rabbits quail and chickens.. my kids don’t have cell phone or social media…we garden every year and hunt and fish what am I arguing about?! I simply stated my experience and the majority of young parents today get accused of perpetuating “spoiled” kids… I guess I don’t understand how people want to complain about youngins when they are the ones who are in control of their raising. What is clear is that baby boomer generations have failed us at every turn. Drug policy, education and just overall American experience was ruined after the ww2 generations handed it over to their children. Am I upset about our inheritance of this country absolutely
I grew up so poor people don’t believe me when I explain it. They think that kind of poor didn’t exist in the last 45 years. I assure you , it did and it does still. So all my favorite things to make are things my grandma made up. Most of them don’t exist online in the way I make them. I always love finding another recipe like these to possibly add to my rotation of other poor folk food I love so much. Kent you’re the best brother.
Not that many years ago... ok it was about 40 years ago, I used to make up my own version of Hoover Stew for Sunday night supper. It was 1 pound of elbow macaroni, 1 onion, 1 pound of cheap hot dogs, and 1 can of Campbell's Condensed Tomato Soup (without adding any extra water). I'm not sure how many servings your Hoover Stew was meant to be, but I'm almost ashamed to say that back in the day, I could polish off an entire pot full of my version in one sitting. Assuming my version at 8 servings at today's prices (Walmart), I would have spent 98¢ for elbow macaroni, 90¢ for one large onion, $1.54 for 1 pound of hotdogs, and $1.26 for 1 can of Campbells Condensed Tomato Soup. Total: $4.68 = 59¢ per serving. If I made that 4 hefty servings, it would be $1.17 per serving. I like your version as it adds the additional protein of the beans, and uses canned tomatoes vs condensed soup. I also make another version that uses 1 pound of elbow macaroni (98¢), 1 can of Campbells Cream of Chicken with Herbs soup ($1.72), a 12.5 oz package of canned chicken ($2.78), and the onion (90¢). Total cost: $6.38 (80¢ per serving for 8 people; $1.59 per serving for 4). For any of these types of dishes, a can of 8 biscuits costs $1.87 (23¢ per person based on 1 each), and that really nasty shaker cheese is $2.98 and should last through a couple meals. I'm the youngest of 9 and meals were always frugal but filling as I grew up. My next door neighbor had 7 kids, but they were all behemoths. Her Sunday Night meal was 10 pounds of elbow macaroni with a pound of butter added to it; nothing else. She cooked it in her metal washtub. Keep up these great recipes and cut me a big old slice of American Pie for dessert.
I was talking to Marty over at Sid's Diner and he said they were selling the depression burgers $1 for a dozen! He said when he started cooking them, he sold them for 4 for $1. Now he sells them 4 for $20! Crazy how the times change, but the food stays the same!
I paid .45 for a burger fried and sm.coke in 1970 for lunch. If you can find an old pre-1964 silver quarter... made with real silver and then stack up 16 shiny new quarters beside it. The new ones look like pennies! they've replaced the silver with copper when we weren't looking!!!! The value of the silver in the old quarters will still buy what it did in 1950. The burgers are NOT worth more... the money is worth less!! Eventually it will be worthless. They've diluted our money so much it no real value. The dollar bills are now 'Reserve Notes' nothing more than a 'promise to pay' like the note you sign at the bank to buy a car....But they used to be Silver Certificates redeemable on demand for $1 of silver. Today any old crumpled $1 silver certificate bill you can find(if you're lucky) is worth about $16 in today's 'money'.
@@andrewlaco1776 🎯 The rest of the world had a depression... FDR made sure we had a Great Depression. My grandfather was the superintendent at the Sioux City Stockyards... after watching famers forced to destroy their hogs and burn them in ditches to manipulate the market while people went hungry... he'd seen enough. He hated him.
My mother was born in 1927 the youngest daughter of a coal miner. Her early years were during the great depression. I remember as a child her preparing what she called "Weeneroni", a combination of hotdogs, stewed tomatoes, onion and macaroni. Dad was an apprentice in the pipe trades and money was slim. Between Mom being frugal and Dad working his tail off, we were poor but our parents didn't let us know it. The food Mom would prepare was cheap, but she could fix it up so it tasted absolutely awesome. I still remember eating hotdogs served on loaf bread. Fast forward, I married a beautiful young lady who my parents loved as their own. One of the many things my mother taught my young wife to cook was "Weeneroni." Even today after marrying that gorgeous girl almost 51 years ago, and at the age of 71, Weeneroni is still among my favorites for dinner. Thank you Mr Rollins for this video. The memories it brought back are wonderful.
We call it "Wurstgulasch". All kids love it. Was a common dish in school, kindergarten, army, restaurants in East Germany. Still one of my favorites. 😋
Thank you cowboy Kent Rollins for your wonderful and thorough recipe video. To think that Hoover picture showed him fat jowled helps me know the great depression didn't affect him!
I love these videos. Hearing the stories from my parents and aunts/uncles on how they got by. It’s amazing because so many of the LEGAL immigrants faced language barriers and had no family it was very difficult to get through these times. I know that my grandmothers made soup out of everything. If someone shot a deer that would feed several families because they shared. This was the greatest generation…. Not only did they survive, work, and pray together they built up this beautiful country to be the greatest nation that ever existed.
Those who don't remember history are bound to repeat it. Been eating cheap in our household for months. So many people are just getting by right now. Tough times.
My grandmother and grandfather went through it and the mealtime made sure she had us finish our plates, leave nothing uneaten. Food was too precious and not a promised thing day to day. Thanks for posting this Kent.
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Thank you for another great video! I have watched every video that you have made, I learned how to cook from you! Better yet I can cook outside in a Dutch oven. Thank you so much Kent and Shannon
You are so welcome! And we thank you so much for watching
I still cook egg noodles with pieces of hot dogs and baby carrots. My family love it. GOD bless. 🙏🤗🤠🌻
They called Jack Rabbits. "Hoover Hogs"
Love your videos.
Thank you cowboy for a trip down memory lane. My grandmother regaled me of many stories about life during the depression and what she and my grandfather did to survive the depression. She taught me how to make food taste good with little ingredients like hoover stew. I laughed to remember her telling me about hoover flags. Thank you for bringing back fond memories of my childhood. God Bless you and yours! Hoover hogs! Lol!
I’m the guy that ran into you and your wife at Miami airport the other week. If you read this, I wanted to thank you for the short but awesome conversation! Was a needed pick me up for my trip. Your humbleness gained you a follower until the wagon’s wheels fall off! God bless!
A Cowboy in Miami. That’s Funny. I’m From California never been to Florida. 70 and sunny here year round. He is a really great cook. I enjoy his videos.
Cowboy Kent is a good man! God bless him!
@Daniel-fd3wp
Your comment made me smile. I have been to every state except Alaska.I am far from a cowboy, but I live in San Diego. Yes!! Because of the weather. I wear cowboy boots any time I can. And I love the recipes from Kent.
It was sure a pleasure my friend
@CowboyKentRollins I wanna meet yall one day you seem like real good people
My daddy was born in 1919. He carried that “depression” mentality through out his life. He saved everything! My daddy was a blessing❤️. Praying for those affected by the fires🙁
My father had a drawer full of Bic pens, rubber bands, and lengths of string because he couldn't bear to walk by anything dropped in a parking lot or public building.
I don't know for a fact that he rifled through other people's office trash cans, but it wouldn't surprise me. 😂
I learned a lot about what people don't really need from my Depression Baby parents.
@@MelissaThompson432 sounds like my daddy.☺️
@@LittleCountryCabin 🙂
My father was the same. He was younger, so his whole childhood was during the depression, and he lost a couple of siblings from childhood illness during that time. First the depression and then the war, he learned to always have a basement full of canned food for emergencies, and things like macaroni & rice you could keep stored for a long time. He kept up that practice till he died.
@@RRaquello I could live for a long time on beans, greens, and cornbread: I may sit alone, but I won't go hungry. 😉
I can also forage outdoors for a meal in most seasons of the year.
There's a channel called Great Depression Cooking that has neat stories from a sweet lady who lived through it. She tells stories while cooking food she often ate during that time period. Sadly, she's passed away. But her channel is still their thanks to her family.
Claira
@@freethinker4596Have her cookbook may she rest in peace and God bless her and family 😘 and yours 🤟🔥💪.
Miss Clara was a treasure. I've saved some of her videos. I like her stories.
Yes, her Poor Man's meal is in heavy rotation in my house. And often when I have to feed unexpected company on short notice.
She has a cookbook out with her recipes. My favorite is poor man's dinner potatoes, onions, and hot dogs.
My grandmother lived through the Great Depression and she instilled in all of us to be appreciative of any meal that we would eat. My mother was the same. They were Sicilian ladies who made the best of anything that came our way.
My parents were depression kids and grew up on the farm. One recipe I remember my mother sharing with us as kids was something
she called “ pretzel soup”. When her and Grammy went to the general store, there was always a barrel with hard pretzels for sale.
The store owner would bang up all the broken pieces and hand them out for free. Grammy would then heat up a pot of milk with butter and also add some fried potatoes and diced carrots, then get it good and hot. Then the pot would be put out on the table with
the bowl of broken pretzel pieces, and you would get yourself a bowl of soup and toss in a good handful of pretzels and let it soak while you give thanks to God for a good hot meal and another day of blessings! I’ll still make that soup on occasion just to remember mom and say thanks for teaching us kids APPRECIATION for all we have!
My parents were in their late 40s and 50 when they had me and my sister. My father told me stories of the Great Depression and it made me cry to know how tough they had it. No food, no warm clothes, no shoes and nowhere to turn. My dad learned to hunt squirrel when he was 8 or 9 and it meant meat on the table. Later on, his parents died of TB when he was 15 with 5 younger brothers and sisters. He lied about his age and joined the military so that he could send money to relatives who were taking care of the little ones. He never failed to tell me how excited he was to have 3 whole meals a day and new shoes on his feet. He did 32 years in the military in gratitude. Thanks so much Kent, for honoring those people who struggled through the Great Depression and I'll be making your Hoover Stew. Like my dad, who's long gone I'm grateful every day for everything I have. And it looks delicious. Hugs to you and to Shannon and the woobits.
I am so grateful for all I have. But for the grace of god go I !
I almost wretched when I learned that my former in-laws used to put duck fat on bread because butter was unavailable. Also, the mother of a close fried in high school used to be called "Gooch's Best" because her clothes during the Depression were fashioned from the burlap bags that Gooch's grain products were packaged in. Unfortunately, people today don't realize how close we are to history repeating itself. Bear that in mind when you vote in 2024.
The sad part is this was all artificially created. It wasn't that the means to feed everyone just stopped existing. Much of the food was left to rot because they couldn't pay people to harvest. This means that this scarcity was solely the result of the idea that feeding those people wasn't profitable enough. I guarantee there were fat cats during the great depression that had expanding waistlines as you had people starving. Just like now. We produce enough food to feed every person on the planet, but people go hungry because we have to line someones pocket to justify feeding people. Doesn't seem right does it?
@@Ryansgt Yes, the language needs upgrading to truth a lot more. I hate it when people blame evil on God or bad luck.
My folks were kids during The Great Depression, and it left an indelible mark on them. They taught me the value of a buck, and to be a saver, and I thank God for the life lessons they instilled in me.
Great lessons and great teachers
Saving is good but you really need to invest for safety. Without hard investments....saved money still vanished or becomes worthless. Wealthy people invest for returns. Poor people save.
@@MrBottlecapBill Deep. Fair call.
I live on a farm in deep South Texas. The local farmers and the feed supplier here have donated an impressive amount of hay, feed, and other supplies to the Panhandle. At least 4 18-wheelers have been filled up and driven up there in a show of support for our fellow farmers and ranchers. We have to help our brothers out!
God bless Texas! ❤
Thank you
Didn't think I would get a lesson on the hardships of Americans during the Great Depression.
I love this channel.
That looks fabulous and I love the "Shantytown Shuffle", and the unapologetic hats off for our veterans. (My dad was a veteran and he just passed away last month. We had some good heart-to-heart talks, some good laughs, some healthy tears over the last year. So thankful for the time with him.)
Speaking of, I'm thankful for the time that you share with us. It's a comfort to hear and know that we'll make it too. I love learning how to cook over an open fire, Wyoming is pretty windy so that's not always an option but it's good info to know. Lol.
When you said "one more day" it reminded me of my Grandmother. When they would can beans and you would hear the lid seal with a pop, she would say "one more day we won't go hungry"!
ThxQ for sharing. I will remember that.
Sweetie ❤. A very valuable lesson that still applies.
My grandmother grew up during the Great Depression and her "Hoover Stew" was affectionately called "Slumgullion" by her and my German great grandmother. Here in Indiana my great grandmother made stews like this to feed our family as well as our neighbors and she was known throughout town as "Grandma Hattie" because she fed so many needy people. She was by no means wealthy or well-off in any way. Her husband worked for the New York Central Railroad as a conductor so he was fortunate enough to keep his job and the whole family paid it forward to our community and church. I grew up eating Slumgullion or Hoover Stew myself as a young boy and it was always a special treat because it came with family history stories. Thank you for such a beautiful remembrance of a time of resolve for so many of our families!!
Thank you for sharing this story with us. I’m a young guy who loves history, it’s important that we don’t forget how people lived in the past. My generation has it easy.
My daddy worked in CCC camps. He learned that slumgullion was canned tomatoes, corn,and okra. Slimiest stuff ever.
My sons mothers grandmother was from 1940s Illinois she called it slum gully ha sure many different versions it was very good
My dad called his chillie slumgullian canned beans and hamburger, always one of my favorites.
Slumgullion is what Ma called it, too (she used the same term for what Cowboy Kent calls "American goulash," which she also called "Hungarian goulash") - she and Pa were children of the Great Depression! 🙂
Awesome little history lesson! My favorite Depression story is from my Granpa (he's 102 and still kicking). He told me that the Depression was so bad, he joined the Army because it was less work than the family business, digging basements with a shovel and buckets.
And, paid better...
crazy, but sound reasoning... did he fight in ww2?
Time are tough, we may be back on the Hoover stew soon. Thank you Kent as usual.
You bet it is our pleasure
Hi Cowboy Kent! I watch all of your shows because you are a great cook and you remind me of my Dad. He passed on 8 years ago and I miss his smile, southern accent, little dances, and his hugs. I always look forward to the end of your show when you wrap your arms around and give us a hug. The last couple of episodes you have skipped that part and I miss it. Can you please bring it back? Thanks. Your friend, Joni
Will do Joni, I do love a hug
My mother's side of the family endured the great depression, Grandma had four young mouths to feed. My Mother remembers walking the RR tracks to the dairy, where they could get free buttermilk, which at the time wasn't thought of as being marketable and the dairy would just dump it out. They would also go to the flour mill/silo and scoop up spilled flour along the RR tracks. Some bacon grease in a skillet, mixed with buttermilk, salt, pepper and a bit of flour, and you had a buttermilk gravy to pour over biscuits. To this day... I still make Grandma's gravy in the cast iron frying pan (that she passed onto me) after I've fried some pork chops.
Grandma, with all of her young'un's in tow, made the trip from Western Iowa to California, where they were turned away at the California by the "Bum Blockade", and they ended up in Oregon. To this date, many old timer Oregonians still hate Californians, because of how California turned them away.
I really admire you for not letting this bit of history fade into the shadows, and highlighting it with your cooking. Grandma would have been pleased if she was still around. Bless You, Shannon, and all the "taste testers/supervisors".
How the tables have turned. Now we have so many “bums” living on the street.
Love your story.
I'm a huge fan. My grandmother used to make stewed tomatoes and macaroni. This brought back memories.
I'm recovering from a very serious health issue. On Sunday night, I had a GI bleed and almost didn't make it. I'm home recovering now, but I have some hard decisions to make for a complete cure .
I ask that the family keep me in your prayers.
I really believe that prayers work.
Amen!🙏🙏🙏🙏
Todd May the Good and Merciful Lord Jesus heal you from the tips of your toes to the top of you head Amen🤟🔥💪😉🇺🇸
Praying for complete healing, brother.
Praying for you in Jesus's Name. Amen.
You are not alone, Todd.
Never give up!
Let the Lord guide you in your decisions.
Much love.
Your "Goulash" recipe took me back to my mother's efforts to feed five children in East Tennessee in the early 1950's!
My father was a Baptist Preacher with very little money but a big faith in our Father in heaven. We all survived, and Mom's
goulash and cornbread was on our dinner table very often! Thanks for reminding me of my past and my blessings today!
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My Daddy was a Baptist preacher from East Tennessee, as well. Not a good paying job, but we were blessed with strong hands and enough space for a good-sized garden. We ate lots of beans and cornbread and goulash was a regular meal around our table. The Lord blessed us and we never went hungry or without a warm place to sleep and we had Godly parents and grandparents with us to set an example. I can’t complain.
We have such abundance today. We have so much to be thankful for
Yes, we have so much that we have storage building to rent space to put our stuff that doesn’t fit in the garage cause it’s full too.
God Bless You Kent Rollins !!!! You are the cool grandpa a lot of us didn't have.
They were definitely a tough and resourceful generation. Survived the Depression and then went and did their part in WW2. My grandparents grew up during the Depression, and us kids were partially raised by them. Glad I had that opportunity to be with them so much as a kid, they played a big part in making me into the person I am today.
We were surrounded by lots of other good folks from that era in our small town community. We even had an old guy that would come to our school every Christmas in the early 90's and be the Santa for the kids. They called him up for the draft in the final days of WW1, but he joined anyway and went to France and served as a balloon mechanic. People from those older generations had ALOT to them that's sorely missing from our modern society.
My mom said they pinched their pennies so much that Lincoln had ingrown whiskers. Great video reminds us of how much we have to be thankful for!
Really enjoyed the history of it. My dad was born in 1906 in Chicago, one of 11 children. His dad ran off & his mom was a nurse. She couldn't afford to take care of all of them so she put some in orphanages, my dad being one. Tough times back then for sure.🙏❤ 🇺🇲
Yep tough times made tough people
@@CowboyKentRollins Amen
My folks graduated high school in '36 & '38, respectively.
They were both very frugal people, having lived through both the Depression, and the rationing of WW2.
My mom made us hoiver stew much like what you made today, with macaroni, diced tomatoes, cans of pork & beans, and coins of hot dogs.
It may have been cheap, but it was good and filling, and all us kids liked it.
Thanks for bringing back sweet memories, Kent, and God bless you and yours.
And God bless you
Thank you for educating people about the Great Depression. We are both of an age where our parents came out of the Depression. My mom was 6 when the stock market crashed and most of her youth was spent in the Depression. She had so many stories she would tell us about life at that time. My dad was about a decade older than my mom, he was the oldest child among his siblings and he had to join Civilian Conservation Corps to help provide for his family, then he went from the CCC to the army and WWII.
I remember my grandmothers making meals like this. Sometimes the simplest meals are the best meals nothing fancy and nothing expensive just good food to keep you going.
Dear Cowboy Kent & Miss Shannon, my mother’s father had a job in the depression - he went from from engineer to apartment building janitor/super - but, it also got them an apartment and some money. Every week they made a meal for everyone in the building - spaghetti - not much meat, but a meal - and NO ONE IN THAT BUILDING EVER MISSED THAT FREE MEAL. Like “Hoover Stew” it was low-budget, but it helped folks. Thank you. From S.E.Tenn, you are appreciated.
Growing up we had pasta and beans, no meat pending pay day! Mom and Dad were from the old country; my dad grow up much poorer of the two. We never threw away left overs, and mom baked constantly...I relish growing up in those times when middle class meant a nice life style. Thank you for always mentioning us veterans, too, Kent.
We owe them all so much
Amen Brother@@CowboyKentRollins
God bless these people who truly suffered and appreciated what they did get....Sad times now with the mess we have become....This world wont ever know what these people went thru but thank you for the history of those times....Blessings to you and Be well.....
I'm 71 years old and my mom grew up during that time. She learned a lot from her Irish mother and always made her seven children, bringing up on her own, a good meal! Thanks Ken, this want to be cowboy loves your videos and the Beagle, I had a Beagle back in the 70's. A great breed! Peter
When I was growing up my dad would tell us stories of being a “hobo” and running the rails, he made hobo stew. It was years later that I realized it was a “story” totally believed the adventure. To this day I make hobo stew (anything in a pot) told the same stories to my children when they were growing up. Being a military family, we HAD to keep it cheap. Good memories.😊
Hobo stew is made in tinfoil...
That looks fine
@@brdlysct Learned how to make that in the Boy Scouts, which came in handy when you wanted to make a very filling hot meal with little cleanup after. Didn't need to wash cookware after that, or even dishes if you placed the foil on something stable. Just lay the wrapped foil on something stable, open the it after it cooled a bit, spread it out into an improvised bowl or plate, and eat.
My Dad was 12 years old at the start of the depression. He was in the Philippines during WW2. I was raised on a ranch in eastern New Mexico and with my Grandpa and Dad going through that it was instilled in them and passed down to me to use everything. When we would have to repair a corral or barn we used nails that we straighten out. All the used nails was thrown in a 5 gallon bucket and it was my job as a kid to straighten them out on a old short piece of railroad iron.
I love learning about meals made during hard times. Makes you appreciate what we have today and help you figure out what to make when you dont have a lot to work with. And it may be a combination of me being a young man who survives on whats in the fridge and the fact your an excellent cook but that looks really good.
Yep hard times, but simple times as well
It is always good to know about how to survive during hard times. Especially now that hard times are coming once again.
@@CowboyKentRollinsStart a "hard times" playlist with this and the S O S you did a while ago.
Look into something called wartime stew. My best friends mom would make it. Mashed potatoes, hot dogs, and carrots,
@@jamestown57 Or butter sandwiches. I've heard people talking about it as a British thing, but it was all over. My grandmother, a nisei(American born to Japanese immigrant parents) told me that in 1920s Hawaii, many of the poorer Japanese kids would have butter sandwiches for lunch, with sugar sprinkled on it(bread, butter, and sugar were all cheap).
It was always whatever staples were cheapest. The other kids always envied my grandmother because she had meat in her sandwiches(she was adopted by a factor who gathered crops from collectives and took them to market).
My grandparents were children during the Great depression. I was lucky enough to be raised by them I learned a lot about hard times and getting by. I'd say you're right Kent, There is not a tougher generation. Thank you for this awesome video and some memories
Looks good!!! Yes it's close to gulash. We learned about Hoovervilles in history class and Hoover flags, the empty pockets. Named one of my kids stuffies Bert, after learning more about Hoover. I understood though that he was a engineer that made many innovations that helped folks. Maybe I'd put a pinch of sugar to balance out the acidity from the tomatoe. Just a pinch of sugar in many dishes will bring out the flavor. I've learned to even put it in my mashed potatoes, cartofi piure.
My grandfather said he knew the Depression was over when one day he saw a rabbit running across the road and nobody was chasing it
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Years ago, I took my father to a restaurant which had rabbit as one of their specialty dishes. I asked him if he was going to order it, and he said "No." When I asked why, he said "When I was a kid, I ate so many of them that I never want to look at it again."
@@NorbrookcI think this is why drive thru possum restaurants never took off.
A old wise man once told me told me, that during the great depression if you saw a rabbit hoping down the road it was time to go check on your neighbor.
I've eaten my fair share of wild game, including opossum. The latter is one I'll never try again. Wild game is generally considered to be lean. Opossums are definitely not! So much grease. Revolting.
Great Depression: My late mother was one of 11 children during the Great depression. Her mother would cook anything that walked. Possum, Squirrel, Racoon etc
Yep. When you are hungry, you'll eat just about anything. Growing up i ate a fair bit of rabbit (we raised them, kinda), and squirrel. In addition to the fresh veggies from the huge garden and fruits and berries foraged from the woods. Plus, it was a farm, so we also had chickens, pigs, and cattle.
But you don't butcher your animals for meat until they are grown, so harvesting from nature was a way to bolster the protein intake during spring and summer.
My Grandfolks grew up on the reservation during these times. They ate anything that moved it wasn't human and had their own medicine.
Even growing up I the 80s, I ate plenty of squirrel stew with rice and gravy. To this day it’s one of my favorite meals.
My Grandparents were teenagers during the depression. Thanks for making me take a moment to remember how special they were to me.
My parents were married during the depression and i learned alot from them. My mother made a dish called slumgullion from those days. I make it still. Thanks Kent
My grandfather just turned 92 and he tells me stories from that time. And honestly his lessons from that era that he passed down will stick with me forever.
Toughest generation I've ever known
Just my two cents. My Mom and Dad were born in early twenties and were about 8-10 years old during the depression. When my brother and I were about that old, I started watching them cook suppers. My Mom and Dad could make dang near everthing with just a can of pork ‘n beans, hot dogs, a can of tuna, bacon grease sittin on the back corner of the stove. Can’t tell you how many time we had cream tuna on toast. Most people turn up their noses at that but let me tell you it was gooooood! Hot dogs in pork’s beans was on of my dads favorites. Just cut you some hot dogs into coins, throw em into the beans and you have beans n weenies. The left overs were made into our sandwiches that my brother and I took to school. Many fond memories of cookin back then. Thank you, Mr. Kent for puttin out these videos of the thrilling days of yesteryear.
My mom grew up in Philadelphia during the depression. To economize, her mom, my "Nana" figured out a recipe she called "juicy meats". It's crumbled sauteed ground beef, diced onions and bell pepper, to which some water and flour is added to make a gravy. Also included is a little salt, pepper, thyme, a pinch of cayenne and maybe some rosemary or a bay leaf. It's great on rice, potatoes or macaroni. It seemed the wave of prosperity of the 1950's and 1960's passed my family by, so Mom had to economize, like Nana had done. So she cooked juicy meats for us kids, and we all loved it. Each of us learned the recipe, and I'm sure it continues to be passed down through the family.
Australia here. My grandparents lived through WW2, plus the great depression with 3 young children. My grandfather (Pop) was a mad gardener, so there was always fresh fruit and vegetables to eat. The neighbours would benefit from his garden too. My grandmother (Nana) was an amazing cook who could turn absolutely anything into a meal. I think she would have loved that dish you made.
Pop was a policeman. Back then, the policeman and family lived at the police station in a house out the back. The wife would cook the meals for any prisoners that might be in custody. Each time they moved town, it didn't take long for word to get around. When times were really hard, or it was winter and the homeless were doing it hard, they would break the law so they would spend the night in lock up. They knew they would get a great meal and a warm bed for the night. Some would do it every second night. Nana told them, please don't do that, just knock on the door and there will be a meal. They wanted the warm bed too. Being in jail overnight was better than being on the street,
I really love simple food. I really liked the look of this. Thanks so much Kent and Shann.
I wasn't aware the great depression hit outside the states. Interested to know how ut differed there
@gdiaz8827 the Depression was worldwide. There is life and issues outside of the US. Most countries don't have the gun crimes you do.
@@gdiaz8827 Although it originated in the United States, the Great Depression caused drastic declines in output, severe unemployment, and acute deflation in almost every country of the world.
@@GamingGuruGabe Yeah, my grandparents lived in a tin shack in the country. 1930s. Then grandad went off to war. Jeez... hard times. Much love from New Zealand. 🙂
I sure pray people will realize we are a blink away from going through this again. I think we're too far gone now. Keep up the great work!
Dear Kent: Thanks so much for making Hoover stew. I grew up so poor we didn't much to eat but when we got Hoover stew it was a real treat. I went into the Navy for 31 years. Now I'm a retired 74-year-old fat cat but I still make Hoover stew and enjoy every bite. I always give it a good seasoning with salt and pepper.
This has been a staple in deer camp since I was a munchkin, now a gray beard I stil drive out to where the boys are hunting. And when its getting done, they start comin out of the woods. They eat, jaw for a bit then back to the woods and if its cold a meal like this for lunch is pertty good !
Better learn these recipes may need them before long. God bless you Shannon and the pups
And God bless you as well
Thank you for supporting Chinner economy instead of the USA economy . Keep buying made in Chinner
Just what are you trying to say? I believe it's spelled China, and I'm not supporting China.
@@garrybradshaw9227 I know it's spelled that way ...lol ok if You don't support Chinner shouldn't You being spreading the word to buy made in the Red , white and blue ? instead boo hooing . do you know what would happen to our own economy if we the people would start buying products made in the USA and start building smaller homes ?
@@kristenb5177 what has any of this got to do with Kent Rollins cooking show all I said was we might need to learn these recipes
This was a great episode. I learned from my grandparents how to eat good and still be frugal. Just made cabbage/smoked kielbasa/onion and noodles. Delicious!
Sounds great!
My Grandparents, both sides, made it through the Great Depression, and one Grandma saved wet clean paper towels and napkins, laid them to dry so she could use them again. It was just something that became so ingrained a habit that it never went away.
My mom made that very goulash you mentioned when I was growing up. For reference, I had my 57th birthday a few days back.
My mom was an only child, but my dad was one of 13 kids. Hunting, fishing, and gardening kept them fed and got them through. My parents were born in 1938 and 1943, at the end of what's called the Silent Generation, before the Baby Boomers, and my brothers and I are all GenerationX. We grew up with both parents working, which instilled a different kind of resilience and self-sufficiency in us. Small town rural living, with much of the extended family involved in farming, and growing up blue collar, has left an indelible mark on my brothers and I. We mostly couldn't afford to take the car to a mechanic, or hire contractors, so we worked on stuff ourselves. That's a lot harder now with the electronics and computers in our automobiles, but having an understanding of basic mechanics and carpentry plus gardening and outdoor survival has proven invaluable.
God bless you and yours Kent, and thanks for all the great videos!
Kent, Thank you for a great recipe! We make goulash too! I am always impressed by what the folks went through in the depression era. My great uncle used to tell us of how they got through. This reminded me of him. Thanks for all you do! Lots of love from northern lower Michigan!
Please do more historical recipes such as this.
Very much a history buff, and nothing better than a great meal to bring history back to life.
Agree. With the times, folks need all the hints and tips that they can get. They come to get entertained and they just might learn something.
I'm 63 yo-Gramma & Mom both went through the Great Depression In Nebraska & Wyoming. Learned many recipes passed down, but this was one of the ultimate comfort foods growing up-Mom called it "Soupy Red Elbows" usually with deer or elk, sometimes hamburger. Thanks for bringing back those memories!
Glad you enjoyed
Both of my parents were Depression survivors, and my dad grew up on the Grapes of Wrath trail back and forth between northwest Arkansas and Southern California. My mom’s parents farmed, and her dad was a school principal, in outstate Minnesota. Some of my earliest memories are of trying to get my white haired elders to teach me what it was like. Most of them didn’t want to even think about what they had gone through. I’m grieved that I didn’t learn more from them.
It is a shame how older folks often won't teach even their younger family members. Everyone should be taught how to get through hard times.
@@debluetailfly I seriously doubt that they were unwilling to teach me, it was that the memories were too painful and they didn’t want to deal with them again.
I recently bought a depression era cookbook. There is so much to learn from those that came before. Thank you for these historic recipes! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
That looks amazing. I grew up on the ground beef version. Not exclusively, obviously, but it was delicious.
As both a history teacher and a food person, this video hits on both levels. Thank you for both the explanations and the cooking.
There's not many youtubers I would like to meet, but I would honestly be tickled silly to sit down at this man's table and have a meal.
Father in law was raised during the depression, his father died and he took care of his mom, brothers and sisters.. what a man! Thanks for reminding us of how lucky we are today, even when we think it's bad, nowhere near bad yet.
We're getting to the point where we're actively letting it get that bad. Look at all the migrants that are literally grilling rats on the sidewalks of new york. These people do not uplife our style of living, they drain our tax dollars while they normalize poverty. Pay attention. Just because ur making more money doesn't mean u have equal buying power as u did 3 years ago.
Awesome to hear that. Key word "yet." We very will likely encounter another even more severe "great depression. "
Your tone gives such pathos to the lives of the 20’s depression. Well done. A must watch.
I made this a few days ago with the original ingredients - macaroni, stewed tomatoes, and sliced hot dogs (with salt added at the end). It was delicious. My family is full of picky eaters, and they loved it. Stewed tomatoes have such a better taste when compared to most spaghetti sauces. I bought and made one pound of macaroni, with two cans of stewed tomatoes, and 4 hot dogs for a total of $2.73. I already had salt in the house. 🙂
I really like the historical videos like this. A collab with Max Miller would be awesome!
I saw a lady use a recipe from the depression and it was fried potatoes and onions with sliced hot dogs. I made that and it was pretty delicious.
Thank you for the recipe idea.
Kent and shanon thanks for being part of our family and friendship, love your videos, meals and stories, appreciate you folks from the mid west united states, never taking for granted your time and energy with great patience towards all of us, GODS LOVE TO YOU ALL, SINCERLY
Thank you for the kind words and God bless you
Grandparents and parents lived during the depression and although times were better my childhood was pretty poor. Lots of times there was little to no meat. Ate a lot of macaroni plain with butter. Fortunately we had a couple of cows and a big garden. So thankful now for what I learned and experienced.
Today's Americans have little idea how fortunate they are.
Thanks for sharing and bless you.
PS: I can still hear Lincoln screaming!
Thanks Kent, This Country will be needing this once again with the direction it is going!
Another awesome episode with food during the depression era
which my grandparents and parents lived in here in Oklahoma
and they had gardens which they used various vegetables in
stews as well as with various meats have a great week and
Thanks again Kent.🇺🇲🍲🍲🤠🐶🍲🍲🇺🇲
This is fantastic! I have 19 & 17 year old boys (the youngest adopted from a foreign country) and they will both watch this with me as I tell them about our family history. They have both been to all 50 states as part of me and my wife's desire to show them the true look of freedom. This vid plays right into that lesson.
SOOOO thankful that you have been spared of the wildfires! I will be praying for all of those folks.
My dad grew up in Hong Kong and was born during WW2. He has many stories of penny pinching meals that his Chinese family experienced during those times.
Watching these recipes reminds me of my old man, thanks.
Oh, my. Blessings to you and Shannon for these historical videos. Younger beautiful families just don't understand really hard times. Hopefully, it won't be too rough ahead.
Thank you for praying for the Panhandle people. I live in Amarillo and we didn’t get it but so many of our surrounding towns did. They have had such an outpouring of loving caring people and yes prayers are the best! God Bless you and Shannon ❤🙏
And God bless you as well
@@CowboyKentRollins Thank you! God has over and over and you and Shannon are a part of the blessing
Yeah, i still get a cravin for goolash bout once or twice a year. I do spaghetti tho and home canned tomatoes, ground beef and onions...always must have onions or just aint right taste. Im 60 now, but this cheap meal saw me thru many a mealess days in my childhood. It was my only meal foe many years. I do love it tho. Thanks Kent
Cowboy my Dad came through the depression and he told us there were times all they had to eat was baking powder biscuits and milk gravy. They were darn glad to have that.
Yep my dad told me they had a lot of water gravy and biscuits
My grandpa too. Flour and water biscuits and flour and water gravy😢
Wow, you're a really great storyteller. Thanks for the video
My parent's went through of the great depression as well. I believe that is what made them the greatest generation. Pure grit and determination
My grandma was born weeks before the stock market crash. My grandpap was born in March of 1930. They were just babies when this was happening, but they did tell me some of what it was like as they were growing up. The Great Depression had a big impact on their parents and its because of that that they were raised a certain way. Both of my grandparents are gone now, but this made me think of them. Thank you, Mr. Rollins!
Thank you toughest generation ever
@@CowboyKentRollins yes indeed, sir!
Good afternoon from Syracuse NY brother and everyone else thank you for sharing your adventures in cooking
Thanks Earl for watching
I'm enjoying your adventures in cooking my friend
My MIL called this depression macaroni. She always added celery. Thanks for the lovely memories this brought.
We thank you for watching
The stewed tomatoes and beans with the sausage reminds me of a canned food we have here in the UK, Baked Beans in tomato sauce with Sausages. I wonder if Heinz created it as a way to quickly make Hoover stew for WW2 years.
Thanks for talking about the depression period. It is bitter sweet to hear those stories. Courage, perseverance, faith in God got them through it along with Yankee ingenuity.
Brilliant video and history to boot!!
I love your apron Kent. 👌
Thanks for watching
*_Thank you so much for share your amazing recipes with us. That's a coincidence! I was reading about the great depression, two days ago._*
*_God bless you and your family american grandfather._* 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🙏🏻
Thanks Debby and God bless you
@@CowboyKentRollins*_Grandpa, I was reading about the Great Depression because sometimes I have strange dreams, in which people in white take me to an underground place and show me plantations, there are many people working on these plantations. The man who was taking me around the place told me that we must prepare for the great famine, because there will be a global financial collapse, money will lose its value, no one will be able to buy or sell anymore, and the only way for us to survive is by farming our own food. These dreams occasionally recur and I always wake up scared._*
@@Debby_2023It's a crazy world coming Debby. Stay on top of your game. Blessings.
@@waynehendrix4806 *_Thank you! God bless you too!_* 🙏🏻❤️
i will never get tired of cooking stories
I fear that we'll get there again in my lifetime. I'm blessed to have access to a family farm in very fertile river bottom land, my grandparents survived on it through the great depression, and I raise rabbits, chickens, ducks, and an extensive garden on it now, and can a GREAT deal of what I grow/raise the same way my granny (still kicking at 101 years old next week) showed me how to do. I can hunt and clean game, too, and I'm grateful for all that knowledge in case it gets bad again. I stockpile my produce so that I don't have to worry if things go south, at least for a little while, and more than I can use in case anyone needs help.
perfect meal fo rough times, much love from minsk city
In my family the hard times came later, when grandpa got hit while on the road, with 7 children at home. There was a 1950's depression for the family immediately. Those type of things make everyone who claims to be a victim of society sound like an idiot today.
Great video , thank you.
Thanks Kent for this video. Our young'uns don't know what it is to suffer a bit, unless you consider an internet outage "suffering". There are many heros that have shaped our country so let's not forget them! !! !!!
Born in 1987 my friend trust me I do know what suffering is. Starting with 9/11, wars at every turn even lost a few friends, Housing crash 2012, oil crashes, covid, inflation, loan interest rates… now sir tell me what you know about suffering… however most of my suffering came from parents that are probably somewhere in your age and the ones currently running the country… y’all baby boomers just don’t know how well y’all had it. Now you can’t let go… boomers are some of the most selfish I think in American history… most of y’all still raise your grown kids and their kids… trust me mine will be raised right we homestead.
Nothing to say?
@brandonweatherly6764 Why try starting an argument? You’re not young anymore, you were born in ‘87. They’re not talking about you.
@@Sniperboy5551 well I guess every man who disagrees with someone or something started with an argument. 36 is young?! Heck 45 is young too. Im not sure I understand what youngins he’s talking about. I have four youngins and they are 5 6 11 and 12 and they have bottle fed claves goats and raised rabbits quail and chickens.. my kids don’t have cell phone or social media…we garden every year and hunt and fish what am I arguing about?! I simply stated my experience and the majority of young parents today get accused of perpetuating “spoiled” kids… I guess I don’t understand how people want to complain about youngins when they are the ones who are in control of their raising. What is clear is that baby boomer generations have failed us at every turn. Drug policy, education and just overall American experience was ruined after the ww2 generations handed it over to their children. Am I upset about our inheritance of this country absolutely
@@brandonweatherly6764
Read the room you absolute spaz 🙄
Happy first day of spring Cowboy and great video keep them coming 🤨🚬
Will do
I grew up so poor people don’t believe me when I explain it. They think that kind of poor didn’t exist in the last 45 years. I assure you , it did and it does still. So all my favorite things to make are things my grandma made up. Most of them don’t exist online in the way I make them. I always love finding another recipe like these to possibly add to my rotation of other poor folk food I love so much. Kent you’re the best brother.
This is the real thanksgiving. We need to remember we are strong and can make it. With gratitude and strength, we can make it through anything.
Not that many years ago... ok it was about 40 years ago, I used to make up my own version of Hoover Stew for Sunday night supper. It was 1 pound of elbow macaroni, 1 onion, 1 pound of cheap hot dogs, and 1 can of Campbell's Condensed Tomato Soup (without adding any extra water). I'm not sure how many servings your Hoover Stew was meant to be, but I'm almost ashamed to say that back in the day, I could polish off an entire pot full of my version in one sitting. Assuming my version at 8 servings at today's prices (Walmart), I would have spent 98¢ for elbow macaroni, 90¢ for one large onion, $1.54 for 1 pound of hotdogs, and $1.26 for 1 can of Campbells Condensed Tomato Soup. Total: $4.68 = 59¢ per serving. If I made that 4 hefty servings, it would be $1.17 per serving. I like your version as it adds the additional protein of the beans, and uses canned tomatoes vs condensed soup. I also make another version that uses 1 pound of elbow macaroni (98¢), 1 can of Campbells Cream of Chicken with Herbs soup ($1.72), a 12.5 oz package of canned chicken ($2.78), and the onion (90¢). Total cost: $6.38 (80¢ per serving for 8 people; $1.59 per serving for 4). For any of these types of dishes, a can of 8 biscuits costs $1.87 (23¢ per person based on 1 each), and that really nasty shaker cheese is $2.98 and should last through a couple meals. I'm the youngest of 9 and meals were always frugal but filling as I grew up. My next door neighbor had 7 kids, but they were all behemoths. Her Sunday Night meal was 10 pounds of elbow macaroni with a pound of butter added to it; nothing else. She cooked it in her metal washtub. Keep up these great recipes and cut me a big old slice of American Pie for dessert.
I was talking to Marty over at Sid's Diner and he said they were selling the depression burgers $1 for a dozen! He said when he started cooking them, he sold them for 4 for $1. Now he sells them 4 for $20! Crazy how the times change, but the food stays the same!
I paid .45 for a burger fried and sm.coke in 1970 for lunch. If you can find an old pre-1964 silver quarter... made with real silver and then stack up 16 shiny new quarters beside it. The new ones look like pennies! they've replaced the silver with copper when we weren't looking!!!! The value of the silver in the old quarters will still buy what it did in 1950. The burgers are NOT worth more... the money is worth less!! Eventually it will be worthless. They've diluted our money so much it no real value. The dollar bills are now 'Reserve Notes' nothing more than a 'promise to pay' like the note you sign at the bank to buy a car....But they used to be Silver Certificates redeemable on demand for $1 of silver. Today any old crumpled $1 silver certificate bill you can find(if you're lucky) is worth about $16 in today's 'money'.
@@R.L.KRANESCHRADTTneither Federal, nor a Reserve. Hoover got the wrap, but they did the crime.
@@andrewlaco1776 🎯 The rest of the world had a depression... FDR made sure we had a Great Depression. My grandfather was the superintendent at the Sioux City Stockyards... after watching famers forced to destroy their hogs and burn them in ditches to manipulate the market while people went hungry... he'd seen enough. He hated him.
Ty for the most correct Hoover Stew. We did hot dogs as thin as possible.
My parents would had approved. Now I have to make the dish.
Hope you enjoy
My family will love it
My mother was born in 1927 the youngest daughter of a coal miner. Her early years were during the great depression. I remember as a child her preparing what she called "Weeneroni", a combination of hotdogs, stewed tomatoes, onion and macaroni. Dad was an apprentice in the pipe trades and money was slim. Between Mom being frugal and Dad working his tail off, we were poor but our parents didn't let us know it. The food Mom would prepare was cheap, but she could fix it up so it tasted absolutely awesome. I still remember eating hotdogs served on loaf bread. Fast forward, I married a beautiful young lady who my parents loved as their own. One of the many things my mother taught my young wife to cook was "Weeneroni." Even today after marrying that gorgeous girl almost 51 years ago, and at the age of 71, Weeneroni is still among my favorites for dinner. Thank you Mr Rollins for this video. The memories it brought back are wonderful.
We call it "Wurstgulasch". All kids love it. Was a common dish in school, kindergarten, army, restaurants in East Germany. Still one of my favorites. 😋
Thank you cowboy Kent Rollins for your wonderful and thorough recipe video. To think that Hoover picture showed him fat jowled helps me know the great depression didn't affect him!
I love these videos. Hearing the stories from my parents and aunts/uncles on how they got by. It’s amazing because so many of the LEGAL immigrants faced language barriers and had no family it was very difficult to get through these times.
I know that my grandmothers made soup out of everything. If someone shot a deer that would feed several families because they shared.
This was the greatest generation….
Not only did they survive, work, and pray together they built up this beautiful country to be the greatest nation that ever existed.
Amen to that
Mr Kent 👍🏼
Those who don't remember history are bound to repeat it. Been eating cheap in our household for months. So many people are just getting by right now. Tough times.
You are a national treasure Kent Rollins! Thank you for sharing your cooking with us. God bless you!
My grandmother and grandfather went through it and the mealtime made sure she had us finish our plates, leave nothing uneaten. Food was too precious and not a promised thing day to day. Thanks for posting this Kent.