Great Depression Recipes That Are A Hit!!

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  • Great Depression Recipes that are a hit with the family. What recipes do you love that were inspired by the Great Depression?
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  • @JeanneDee-zz5th
    @JeanneDee-zz5th 2 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    Please teach us more depression recipes. We are in some similar times and need ideas to stretch out food resources. We have been spoiiled and now it's time to face this current reality. Thanks!

  • @rhondaherdman7338
    @rhondaherdman7338 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    My parents were adults in the depression. My mom cooked for 3 families. She always watered down the milk to make it stretch. Crackers broken up helped stretch the meat. God help us they saved everything in case you need it later to save money. Plus they had a small veggie garden.

    • @mollysmith6055
      @mollysmith6055 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Absolutely! I can recall with clarity my grandmother's stacks of neatly washed styrofoam egg cartons, meat trays, rinsed and dried foil folded neatly, saved butter wrappers (for greasing pans) and or course the ever present meat-drippings container next to the stove.

  • @christinebarber8311
    @christinebarber8311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I didn’t realize so many of my family staples were depression recipes. Cream peas and tuna on toast and rice with milk and sugar. That was some of my absolute favorite things. And meatloaf!

    • @trudydavis6168
      @trudydavis6168 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You can stretch a meatloaf quite far with all sorts of healthy additives. Breadcrumbs, eggs, grated carrots, finely chopped onions, parsley, etc. Be sure to season well. You can almost double that meatloaf!

    • @dennyj8650
      @dennyj8650 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@trudydavis6168 I use crushed cereal like cornflakes or cheerios.

    • @trustinJesus_only-_
      @trustinJesus_only-_ ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My mom made us rice with cinnamon and milk as kids. I I'm only 43 so I think it's impressive how my mom cooked for us! Poverty but with good food

    • @RunninUpThatHillh
      @RunninUpThatHillh ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Rice pudding you mean??

    • @trustinJesus_only-_
      @trustinJesus_only-_ ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RunninUpThatHillh nope just cooked rice with cinnamon and sugar and milk

  • @amykat5
    @amykat5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I had no idea biscuits and gravy was a depression era recipe! I live in the south and it was the norm for us. Our meatloaf was made torn bread or crackers, but not soaked in milk. No bacon on top but Mom would put a strip of bacon on the baked beans sometimes. She grew up in the late 30’s-early 40’s, through times of rationing. She was very frugal and smart! Plus was raised by my grandmother and great-grandmother who had gone through the depression. My dad’s mom would make the applesauce cake. I loved it! Haven’t made it in years. I need to do that! Thank you for taking me down memory lane!

    • @lindaleegan5638
      @lindaleegan5638 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I was raised in the South too and continue to live here. We were raise eating all these foods as well. I didn't know we ate frugally until I read it somewhere. Like you, this was just normal for my family. We never ate out because (1) my parents couldn't afford it and (2) there was no such thing as fast food in our area. This was during a time when women still cooked from scratch, and people ate 3 meals a day.

    • @bcaye
      @bcaye ปีที่แล้ว

      It was, but there was no sausage in it. Poor people couldn't afford much meat-milk was even a stretch.

    • @tracydimond3759
      @tracydimond3759 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lower alabama here. I just made sausage gravy and biscuts for my husband and i for supper the other day.

    • @amykat5
      @amykat5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bcaye Some could. My great-grandmother raised at least one hog every year and always had a flock of chickens. She butchered every animal herself.

    • @annabeltheduchessofdessert7700
      @annabeltheduchessofdessert7700 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My grandmother used cracker crumbs in her meatloaf, along with eggs. No milk. It was delicious!

  • @homesweettrailer7565
    @homesweettrailer7565 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I'm imagining the sausage gravy and the creamed eggs getting together and having a happy toast party 😂

  • @cathydee8401
    @cathydee8401 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I remember my Mother giving us sweetened leftover rice as a dessert when I was a small child. Yes, it was good.

    • @dar5108
      @dar5108 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same here.😊

  • @wardrobelion
    @wardrobelion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    My mom recently told me that her mom always put the flour in a jar with milk and shook it then put it in the pan and had a smooth gravy or rue every time. My grandma also cooked her scrambled eggs in a pot with milk instead of a skillet. They were light and a soft scramble. Yummy! My other grandma (dad’s mom) used her iron skillet for almost everything. Sometimes we came in from school to skillet bread. So good with butter…it was like a huge buttery biscuit that she cooked on the stove.

    • @stephaniemcelmurry7996
      @stephaniemcelmurry7996 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You can't get a true rue by mixing the milk and the flour together like that. When I read up on making rue I learned the majority of the flavor in gravy comes from the rue making process. Stirring constantly is to keep it from burning. Once made, if the gravy is too thin, adding the flour, milk, shaken up method is a great thickener but not for starting.

    • @peacefulinspirations7312
      @peacefulinspirations7312 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I shake my milk and flour together for white sauce. It does make a smooth sauce.

    • @debbiecaraballo9055
      @debbiecaraballo9055 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stephaniemcelmurry7996 lo

    • @debbiecaraballo9055
      @debbiecaraballo9055 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry! That was just an accident!

    • @HeronCoyote1234
      @HeronCoyote1234 ปีที่แล้ว

      I make my scrambled eggs in a pot as well (watched Gordon Ramsay make his). Creamy and so yummy!

  • @edefyinggravity
    @edefyinggravity 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I don't know if it's a Depression recipe or just a poor immigrants from Poland recipe 😂 but our family LOVES haluski. It's been filling our family's bellies for at least 5 generations. 😁

  • @shannaspicer5181
    @shannaspicer5181 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    My grandmother grow up during the depression. She was still eating the warm rice, in the early 2000's. She LOVED it.
    She also would make creamed beef (that's the nice name for it). The same way you make the creamed egg. She would buy beef lunch meat and slice it; then add it to the cream sauce and serve over toast. That to this day is on of my favorite things.
    I love watching your great depression videos

    • @vickithornley5056
      @vickithornley5056 ปีที่แล้ว

      My mom called it frizzled beef. I loved it.

    • @esskeller9676
      @esskeller9676 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I like savory foods for breakfast. I make warm rice with a little butter and shredded cheese. Or cheesy grits. Yum.

  • @justmefolks1863
    @justmefolks1863 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I am old, but spent a lot of time as a teen talking with a couple who raised a family during the depression. Meatloaf was actually a once a week common meal. It was not an actual recipe, it was all the weeks left over bits of breads, vegetables and even other meats combined with some fresh ground meat of whatever they had to make a loaf, It never tasted the same but was always appreciated. Sliced bread during the great depression was more in larger cities than in country stores as it wasn't even available until 1928. It the country it was more loaves and hardtack than anything else. I sure do miss talking to that older couple, they told me if they didn't raise chickens and goats at the time they never would have made it through the depression, most people raised cows and chickens. Of course they had the massive gardens also. Loved the video though, probably things many didn't even think about.

    • @mollysmith6055
      @mollysmith6055 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The luxury of sliced, white bread has to be why no family dinner served by my grandmother was ever complete without a platter of white bread as one of the sides. That makes perfect sense.

    • @justmefolks1863
      @justmefolks1863 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@mollysmith6055 My grandma was the same way. I think it was being thankful to not have to bake everyday and it was a cheap filler.

  • @depoquest7928
    @depoquest7928 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I was born in 1957 and we ate all these foods growing up. Applesauce Cake was made for Christmas every year and I still make it but always in a bundt pan. As it ages I gets better.

    • @hazelbrungard1623
      @hazelbrungard1623 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sounds like A& P Spanish Bar.

    • @JaneDough23
      @JaneDough23 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hazelbrungard1623 I loved the A & P Spanish bar

  • @Amandahugginkizz
    @Amandahugginkizz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    My neighbor growing up was a Filipino and my favorite recipe her grandma wld make was chocolate rice almost like you made but with cocoa powder! It's so good! Left over warm rice, warm milk, butter, and cocoa powder. Its to die for

  • @kardiaheart
    @kardiaheart 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Gorgeous woman, love the hair! I miss Clara's videos. She was definitely one of a kind and her recipes always came with stories of her childhood growing up during the Depression. These recipes sound fantastic, and with today's inflation, we may all be tightening our belts and using these receipts as well as making up some of our own. Thanks Kimmie for all the information!

    • @amandaforeman2626
      @amandaforeman2626 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I miss Clara’s videos too :( she was such a gem !

    • @janicekobetich1138
      @janicekobetich1138 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Love, love, loved her giggle. She was a beautiful woman.

    • @nadogrl
      @nadogrl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Aren’t her recipes still here on TH-cam? I recently bought her cookbook.

    • @ericastout4552
      @ericastout4552 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@nadogrl yes ma'am 😽

    • @nadogrl
      @nadogrl ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ericastout4552 - I recognize you from Rhoda’s channel.❤️

  • @kristianeludtke9211
    @kristianeludtke9211 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Here in germany we eat mustard eggs over potatos. Just like you did with the creamy eggs,but add some mustard and half the eggs and just heat them through. Delish!

  • @suziebuckingham9053
    @suziebuckingham9053 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    My mom, from the Depression, cooked the creamed eggs. She called it Eggs a la Goldenrod. Sounded much more fancy. Of course you could substitute dried beef, and it’s chipped beef on toast. The military calls it something different.lol

    • @mollysmith6055
      @mollysmith6055 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My mom always called it SOS and when my sister and I would press her for the answer of what that meant she'd say, 'Never you mind.'

    • @714rooster
      @714rooster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My mom called it that too. She separated the yolks and sprinkled them on top....so pretty and delicious 😋

    • @melanieroberts2221
      @melanieroberts2221 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mom too

    • @user-yz9yg4yx1k
      @user-yz9yg4yx1k ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Mom called them Eggs ala Goldenrod. I have the original recipe from Ann Page. (A&P grocery store) Dad was Army so he called them SOS! Bananas wrapped with Dutch loaf was a lunch option. Fried Green tomatoes and mashed potatoes. Our meat loaf used crushed crackers onions and tomato soup poured on top. Sweet rice was Moms favorite. She ate it for breakfast. This brought back so many memories.

    • @lyndalisten254
      @lyndalisten254 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How many pounds of hamburger for the meatloaf ?

  • @milliesimmons7252
    @milliesimmons7252 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have eaten the rice with milk sugar and butter for 50 years, so good.

  • @lisasey3681
    @lisasey3681 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    My mother made her meatloaf like this except for the bacon I'm pretty sure it's because she was a widow raising 5 kids. I'm so glad I payed attention to her cooking I make my meatloaf like this also. She passed away in 1998 @63yrs old I miss her great cooking.😥 Love these videos, keep them coming! Thank you💜

    • @mollysmith6055
      @mollysmith6055 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      63 is far too young, I'm so sorry for your loss. You were lucky to have such a wonderful woman for a mom who made sure to raise you right though.

    • @lisasey3681
      @lisasey3681 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank you very much🤗. 💞She was a wonderful mother and best friend. 💞

  • @samanthazehr9965
    @samanthazehr9965 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    My grandmother made creamed eggs on toast often, brought back many great memories for me❤ My husband loves sausage gravy over home fries with a fried egg on top. My boys love it too!

  • @nolacockerham4823
    @nolacockerham4823 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Loved this. It reminded me of my mama’s cooking.
    CORRECTION: That was not sawmill gravy. The term "sawmill gravy" comes from early logging camp food and old-time sawmills. It was originally made with cornmeal, bacon drippings, milk, and seasonings. This resulted in a somewhat gritty gravy; in fact, rumor has it that the loggers would accuse the cooks of putting sawdust in the recipe!

    • @judyhaase809
      @judyhaase809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I agree the texture is very different but both delicious

    • @diversekakes
      @diversekakes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How interesting!

    • @sonkey1
      @sonkey1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      We grew up calling this sausage gravy

    • @donnastratton8397
      @donnastratton8397 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I love Cracker Barrel sawmill gravy. It tastes different than the gravy I make. But it doesn't taste gritty. I've tried to find a recipe for sawmill gravy but just get the regular gravy recipe.

    • @vickidolph1581
      @vickidolph1581 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I agree….this was just your basic sausage gravy and biscuits.

  • @franksmom3192
    @franksmom3192 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    My dad use to make us rice and milk for breakfast , feeding a family of 12 ,it went along way and was cheap enough to afford, he also loved rice pudding

    • @lorita3488
      @lorita3488 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My Mom would use the left over rice the next morning heated with milk or cream and add brown sugar or just sugar and cinnamon and fresh grated nutmeg for each person taste

  • @lvlc5
    @lvlc5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Love this series ... I remember one time I was asking my grandma about what she ate as a kid. They lived in the country side and were very poor. She ate from fruit trees from the neighboring places and with sad face she remember... "I even ate water seasoned with the tail of a codfish and some potatoes". Meat was a luxury but ate mostly local root veggies.

  • @hollyk1226
    @hollyk1226 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Never had the creamed eggs but we are going to try it. Love sausage gravy, another way my mom and grandmother made it was to use ground beef. We would eat it with toast or rice.

    • @tracyhardwick2695
      @tracyhardwick2695 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We would have the ground beef gravy at dinner, delicious.

  • @eydiegarcelon8889
    @eydiegarcelon8889 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Oh Kimmy!!! The very first recipe transported me back to my little girl days, late 1960's. My Mom would make a big batch of rice... then the next morning, we'd have warmed up rice, with the milk, sugar and cinnamon over it!!! Such a treat! SO thank you for the flashback!!!

  • @bobbiek2960
    @bobbiek2960 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I might be repeating myself. But I make grilled cheese meatloaf sandwiches with leftover meatloaf. Cut thin and add a little tomato sauce and of course cheese.

  • @ruthtingle7219
    @ruthtingle7219 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I grew up with the rice one, put mum called it rice pudding, and instead of honey we'd have a teaspoon of strawberry jam

  • @tammysiltanen884
    @tammysiltanen884 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My grandparents survived the depression. Some of my favorite foods were birthed in the kitchens of moms trying to feed their families. My dad gave us this a lot growing up and he was born in the 50s.

  • @joywilmott8495
    @joywilmott8495 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The meatloaf with the bread is a good way to use up the heals of the bread loaf ❤

  • @kathybrunson2390
    @kathybrunson2390 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    We grew up eating the “egg gravy” as we called it. The only difference is that after we boiled the eggs, we separated the yolk from the white part and only put the cut up white part of the egg into the gravy. Then we would crumble the yolk part and sprinkle it over the toast with the gravy. Yum!

    • @mollysmith6055
      @mollysmith6055 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We did that in Home Ec...the yolk was the all-important garnish.

    • @pattopping5812
      @pattopping5812 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Eggs goldenrod

  • @sandrawhitman2930
    @sandrawhitman2930 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    My grandmother went through the Great Depression and they ate this rice but put a spoonful of peanut butter in it also. It’s sooo good!

    • @Mwilder05
      @Mwilder05 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      YUM!! Going to try this

    • @bluemoon3699
      @bluemoon3699 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Us, kids, would have a stick of celery with peanut butter in it. Nice healthy snack.

  • @wardrobelion
    @wardrobelion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I learned from Joy Of Baking that if you coat your raisins, blueberries, etc. it keeps them from ending up on the bottom.

  • @caroljulian6505
    @caroljulian6505 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My family was coal miner of Ky. We ate like great depression. Money was so tight.

  • @jrprairie32
    @jrprairie32 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love all these recipes! It's kind of funny because almost all these recipes are incorporated into our monthly menu. These meals have made it through 3 generations in my family and will keep passing them down.

  • @melissabibby7310
    @melissabibby7310 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My Grandmother was born 1918, she made most of those recipes, they were delicious. Thanks for sharing.👍❤️

  • @iowagranny2841
    @iowagranny2841 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Creamed eggs on toast is my love language! Had them often growing up and still a comfort food for me.

  • @YT4Me57
    @YT4Me57 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My grandmother and mother made meatloaf like that. Sometimes they added chopped green pepper and mixed some ketchup in the meat mixture also. Delicious!

  • @brookegurley8673
    @brookegurley8673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Omg , yes! Creamed Eggs on Toast! My grandma and mom used to always make this for me. They have both passed so this recipe is close to my heart! ❤️

    • @stevemccravy7169
      @stevemccravy7169 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My mom always made it around easter time (gotta do SOMETHING with all those eggs!) I make it still.

  • @karenennis6109
    @karenennis6109 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    First, I love your hair cut. My grandparents lived through the depression. We ate many of the recipes from both your vlogs. Now I know why we always had ketchup or we would have tomato soup, cheaper on our meatloaf and creamed tuna, and definitely applesauce cake. Thank, love these vlogs

  • @deidrecruickshank7975
    @deidrecruickshank7975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In my family we've been doing warm rice with milk and sugar since I was a kid, I'm 60 now!

  • @wardrobelion
    @wardrobelion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wow! That depression meatloaf is better than my own usually is. I never used valuable bacon 🥓 on mine. Sometimes add ketchup. Since it’s just me now it cooks faster in a muffin tin in the toaster oven.

    • @user-ei8rb7sj6c
      @user-ei8rb7sj6c ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m a “just me”, too. How many mini meatloaves do you get from 2 lbs. meat in standard muffin cups? What temp and how long do you bake in toaster oven? Love all these recipes!

  • @jamiet9132
    @jamiet9132 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    my mom makes chip beef on toast. The beef comes in a jar, and she never made us eat it but she would have it on a night that we all were doing our own thing for dinners

    • @dstock5890
      @dstock5890 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We had this too! Also called SOS. We liked it and I’ll have to get some. I believe Stouffers has a frozen version!

  • @lindseymiller8165
    @lindseymiller8165 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I am only 35 and I ate that rice cereal as a kid, we were very poor. It is really yummy. And I make sausage gravy all the time. My husband loves biscuits and gravy.

  • @wardrobelion
    @wardrobelion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yum! My grandma used to make applesauce cake and sometimes raw apple cake.

  • @donnabanks5958
    @donnabanks5958 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My Mom always fixed rice, sugar with milk and we called that dessert!! Yum!! Still love it.

  • @pattigreenland9001
    @pattigreenland9001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Kimmy this is how we make our Christmas fruit cake, except we replace raisins with cut up gum drops it’s fabulous and easy 😋

  • @Spedteacher2020
    @Spedteacher2020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We called them Goldenrod eggs growing up. A loaf of bread and dozen eggs would feed us all dinner. So yummy. Mom would take the separate yolks from the whites (after cooked and peeled) and push through a sifter to make a fine sprinkle for the top. 🥚 🍞

  • @peggyb3397
    @peggyb3397 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Every recipe looks delish!! I've eaten the rice since childhood, a definite comfort food for me and a great way to use up leftover rice.. Since microwaves came along, I "zap" the bowl for a good 1 minute or so and the rice soaks up all that yummy milk and sugar. A dash of vanilla never hurts. 😇TFS!!

  • @bevintx5440
    @bevintx5440 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of my aunts was hard up so she added quite a bit of veggies to her meatloaf to stretch the meat even more. As time went by they became more well off, so one day she made a classic meatloaf. She was totally surprised when her children didn’t like it and asked her to make the “good meatloaf” again. :-)

  • @clareweller8785
    @clareweller8785 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Love these videos. With prices going up and some shelves being empty, I often find myself thinking of my Nan and what she would have cooked back then. 😊 x x x

    • @sarahmoviereviewer4109
      @sarahmoviereviewer4109 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      what did she cook ?

    • @michelebadey3883
      @michelebadey3883 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sarahmoviereviewer4109 depression era cooking recipes.

    • @Treaclepuff
      @Treaclepuff 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me too! We will have to bring all that back, won't we?

  • @noahhursh1485
    @noahhursh1485 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In spring my children like egg gravy with small pieces of precooked asparagus in. My mother would cook and season macaroni, make sausage gravy and heat creamed corn from her freezer then we would layer it on our plate macaroni, sausage gravy and top with homegrown creamed corn. That was so delicious!

  • @yvonnejohnson2109
    @yvonnejohnson2109 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I make a meal called water hamburger. You cook up ground beef and half a choped onion and salt and pepper. When the meat is cooked all the way,drain the grease. You add 1/2 cup of water. Heat until the water starts to boil. Turn off heat and serve over mashed potatoes and a side of vegetable.

  • @ginaroberts2964
    @ginaroberts2964 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm so excited, we are making the Depression Meatloaf tonight! I have a feeling my family will agree that it's a keeper - we'll see in an hour! Thank you for sharing these time-tested meals to make our money stretch.

  • @cheyannemanderson
    @cheyannemanderson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Applesauce cake was my grandma's favorite!! I really love it too although I've never tried it with raisins. I don't know for sure if it's a depression era recipe but I know my great grandma LOVED rhubarb crunch and it's amazing if you haven't tried it. I think rhubarb is really easy to grow too. Anyway Definitely want to eat with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. 😋

  • @bkj2508
    @bkj2508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Meatloaf tastes good with cream of mushroom soup too. In stead of ketchup. We always chopped up onion in it too.

  • @DianaCollander
    @DianaCollander 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Oh my! I thought creamed eggs on toast was something only my Mom made! You are the first person I've ever heard that knew what they were! I'm 71 and my Mom use to make creamed eggs on toast for us. I still make occasionally. Thanks for the memory of my Mom.

  • @sherriluce4252
    @sherriluce4252 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My family had the rice, milk, with cinnamon and sugar for dinner during the 1970's during the high stagflation because their was so much shrinkflation. We occasionally ate it for breakfast too.

  • @kimjohnson9118
    @kimjohnson9118 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My husbands grandmother (who is 92) makes something similar to the egg meal on toast. She boils the eggs to make them hard boiled. While they are cooking she makes a white gravy. Once the eggs are boiled she takes the shells off. Then takes the yolks out of the white part. Cut up the white part and put it on the toast. Top the egg whites with the gravy and put the yolks crumbles up on top. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. It is good. They call it stuff on toast.

  • @kristyb5821
    @kristyb5821 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My great granny always made rice pudding every time we had rice. It was one of my favorite desserts ever and still is. I loved it because whenever she made it I got to eat it for breakfast. As a kid having dessert for breakfast was the best thing ever. Now I need to make some rice pudding 🤣

    • @nadogrl
      @nadogrl 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      My mom made it too, with raisins in it for dessert. I wasn’t a fan.🤢

  • @duppsydaisy
    @duppsydaisy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh my gosh, where have you been all my life? 😅👍❤💥
    Side note: I use oats instead of bread for the meatloaf and it works great! And stewed tomatoes with the juice instead of canned milk! 😋

    • @alinewright1093
      @alinewright1093 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The oats expand with the juices of the meat.

  • @cowboyswife2918
    @cowboyswife2918 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My Grandma said her family made a sawmill gravy with water and bacon grease no meat ,when things were especially tight of course!

  • @charlottedenman7176
    @charlottedenman7176 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    My parents lived during the depression si I ate a lit of recipes from that era and one of my favorite breakfast foods till this day is adding peanut butter to cooked rice. So good.

    • @shesinherapron
      @shesinherapron  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ooh I’ll try that one. Thanks! What else did you have?

    • @charlottedenman7176
      @charlottedenman7176 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@shesinherapron anything from scratch. I still cook that way. Anything out of the garden, raised our cows and pigs. My dad taught me how to cut up a chicken to be able to use the whole thing. Coremeal dumplings one of my favorites, they were spicy 😋

    • @mrseliephant
      @mrseliephant 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My mom used to eat the rice a lot when I was young. I've had it. It's really yummy even cold.
      My grandma taught me how to make a rue as well as bisquits and gravy. It's my favorite.
      Thank you for sharing.

    • @teridavis5367
      @teridavis5367 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@charlottedenman7176 I would love your recipe for Cornmeal Dumplings! They sound amazing! Cooking things from our childhood really brings back great memories! Thank you!!!

    • @denisebiendarra5996
      @denisebiendarra5996 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      My parents lived through the Depression too-they were teenagers. Some of my Mom’s recipes might’ve have been from that era.

  • @Homeschoolmama2020
    @Homeschoolmama2020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love when you do these Great Depression cooking videos! Making these biscuits and gravy tonight!

    • @marysexton8482
      @marysexton8482 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can't wait to make her gravy !!!! Looks so delicious !!! Enjoy yours tonight !

    • @Homeschoolmama2020
      @Homeschoolmama2020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@marysexton8482 it was a hit at my house tonight! Everyone really like it! I even made some homemade biscuits to go with it!

  • @annaalcantar3824
    @annaalcantar3824 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love the recipes! I’m Mexican and our family always makes arroz con leche(rice with milk) it’s a staple in most Mexican or Hispanic homes. Delicious!

  • @buckeyemom8448
    @buckeyemom8448 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sausage gravy over fried potatoes is delicious !

  • @ninaarmstrong7744
    @ninaarmstrong7744 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    All of it looks absolutely delicious 🤤…as for the sausage gravy, I like making a tater tots casserole (mixing frozen tater tots with cream of mushroom and then topped with plenty of cheese) and then after baking, add the sausage gravy over it ❤️ it’s a family favorite 😍

    • @pantryonlyrecipes
      @pantryonlyrecipes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that’s a good idea. I have tots

    • @pantryonlyrecipes
      @pantryonlyrecipes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do you add milk to it or just mix it up?

    • @pantryonlyrecipes
      @pantryonlyrecipes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      forgot to tag you. I have everything you mentioned.

    • @ninaarmstrong7744
      @ninaarmstrong7744 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@pantryonlyrecipes hey yes it’s a good and easy and filling meal! No milk needed just mixing the tater tots with with a can or two of cream of mushroom (depending on how many tater tots you use - enough for a light coating of every tater tot) then add salt and pepper, then cheese on top and bake in oven covered for (I’m guessing 20 min at 350) then remove aluminum foil and bake for another 10 ish minutes or until cheese is melted and golden and bubbly 😊 hope you are enjoying it, if so let me know plz 😊

    • @shesinherapron
      @shesinherapron  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What a great idea! Thanks!

  • @joanwalford1959
    @joanwalford1959 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Just love the depression recipes and they are so doable. Looks tasty too.

  • @HummerGirl88
    @HummerGirl88 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My grandmother used to make the creamed eggs on toast for holiday & special occasions breakfasts. She grew up during the depression on a farm and was #11 of 13 children. I now make it with gluten free flour & toast along with lactose free milk and it's just as delicious.

  • @jessicatonniges1698
    @jessicatonniges1698 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great recipes!! We eat our saw mill gravey over hashbrowns, diced potatoes or mashed potatoes!

  • @sarap6862
    @sarap6862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love creamed eggs! I always add cheese to my white sauce before I put in the eggs. Delicious!!

  • @petrakihlstrom8163
    @petrakihlstrom8163 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The "eggsauce" is something that Swedes eat to boiled potatoes and boiled white fish, like cod. I grew up to that eggsauce.

  • @babsy820
    @babsy820 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    How inspiring! Thanks for sharing your bravery and ambition to try these older recipes. It teaches us so much.

  • @juliabartlam2083
    @juliabartlam2083 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have also put the sausage gravy over toast, french fries, and potatoes of any kind.That meatloaf is fancy compared to my recipe, looks amazing! I use ground meat of any kind, ketchup, mustard and some oatmeal and an egg, season as you like. Love the applesauce cake recipe! am Eastern Orthodox and we have a lot of strict fasting days, vegan food only, and this is easily adapted to that!

  • @lovebug1891
    @lovebug1891 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My dad and my husband loves SOS gravy

  • @robertagillis448
    @robertagillis448 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These recipes are some I raised my family on, so good.

  • @maryjanespangler7488
    @maryjanespangler7488 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just love these kind of videos. I am 71 years old. My mom used to give us that rice dish for breakfast, but we added raisins to it. I still love it to this day. And the creamed eggs, I make it every year at Easter for my kids, we called it golden rod. It is so delicious.

  • @sued616
    @sued616 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love making rice pudding for l,m on very low income so easy cheap recipes help at moment have no meat,chicken,tuna etc so have to be creative.loved this video

  • @danaa6283
    @danaa6283 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If you have never tried it try making biscuits and gravy with bacon gravy! I can't eat sausage so that is how I make it and hubby adores it:)

  • @marcellareese8853
    @marcellareese8853 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My mom always called the creamed eggs, eggs a la goldenrod. Lol. She grated a little bit of the hard-boiled egg on the top after putting the creamed mixture on the toast. Brought back memories of her. ❤️. Miss her.

  • @mariposavioleta9007
    @mariposavioleta9007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    These great depression recipes would've been for those that still had money. I know from my grandparents who grew up then and even my parents who grew up during the war that most of these were special treats but not something they could afford most of the time. The first one with the rice with cinnamon and milk I grew up with as a meal during harder times.

  • @Treaclepuff
    @Treaclepuff 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    WOW! And to think I was raised on that stuff long after the depression! We didn't eat our rice with milk though . We only put milk in our cereal, or drank it. My husband ate rice with milk and hated it. So I told him to just eat it with the sugar and butter and even with cinnamon! He said, "But that's like eating a dessert!" Well, I'm for that! LOL! Mom never made creamed eggs, but she did put sausage in her gravy from time to time. I will try the meatloaf with the bread and milk. Mom made hers different; with a few crushed crackers rather than bread, and sometimes she'd add a can of drained mixed veggies. There's so many wonderful ways to make meatloaf! I will have to try the cake....just because it's different than what I make! I love to try new recipes, and so does my family! And thank you so much for cooking and sharing your recipes! Wish I could have been in your kitchen to help be a "taster"!

  • @bettytijerina9769
    @bettytijerina9769 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I cube the bread first so the crust is easier to mash up. I use the thinner bread; that looks like the thicker more French toast bread I would use.

  • @Tammy-cu3nk
    @Tammy-cu3nk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow, I’ve grown up eating all of that and fixing it at some point. 💛💛😄

  • @tanyachard3900
    @tanyachard3900 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hi Kimmie. I make a similar gravy to the saw mill gravy. I learned it from my mom. We serve it with mashed potatoes usually and just call it ground beef, gravy, and potatoes. Instead of milk, we use the water from the boiled potatoes. Then we make a flour slurry to thicken the gravy and gravy browning for colour. One of our favs.

  • @kimdowning8736
    @kimdowning8736 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I grew up eartng the milk and rice for dinner a lot. My mom put brown sugar and raisins in it. So good.

  • @Shabosoutdoors
    @Shabosoutdoors 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sawmill gravy is made with water not milk an normally served over meat of some sort but still a great vid thanks for sharing 😀

  • @patricianolin3164
    @patricianolin3164 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was a child, bout 60 yrs ago and my mother made a white sauce with boiled eggs and frozen peas. She added a curry to it and then she served over rice. With fried chicken, wow the memories, always good. Thank you. Patricia

  • @dianedouberley8161
    @dianedouberley8161 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My mom made this and we called it sausage gravy and biscuits . She added some dehydrated onion flakes and a little garlic powder . Try it cause it is delicious , All 4 of my boys and 1 daughter are grown and married and they all make this for their families .

  • @CW-pp7zc
    @CW-pp7zc ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My mom always made the rice “soup”. Loved it.

  • @allorganicplanting
    @allorganicplanting ปีที่แล้ว

    She is the real deal. An excellent page. She shows you how toooo cook grate meals and save money doing it.

  • @nseni31385
    @nseni31385 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I bet you could use that meatloaf recipe with boxed stuffing and the milk and it would taste even better. I've heard a lot of people use box stuffing for their meatloaf instead of just the plain unseasoned bread.. maybe like the sage and herb one? I think I'll try that.

  • @darrellkottal3378
    @darrellkottal3378 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My mother along with her 9 siblings (Father was a coal miner in Avoca Pa) ate that rice recipe every day for breakfast, warmed with honey.. She would have been 104 today and always had fond memories of her mother making this on their coal stove

  • @rg-mi5hh
    @rg-mi5hh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Not sure if this depression era recipe, but hamburger, crackers and onions together to fry a hamburger was one of our staples growing up. So good.

    • @nadogrl
      @nadogrl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sounds like a mini meatloaf.

    • @amazootie9947
      @amazootie9947 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My mom made this (she grew up in the depression) but she would add bell pepper and diced tomatoes and tomatoes sauce. Then fry

    • @rg-mi5hh
      @rg-mi5hh 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yum.

  • @lin90210
    @lin90210 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The eggs on toast recipe reminds me of Welsh Rarebit we have in the UK. I wish I didn't become lactose intolerant otherwise I would gorge oh both recipes.

    • @edefyinggravity
      @edefyinggravity 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Some people I know who are dairy-free say oat milk works great in gravy.

    • @JesusisKing222
      @JesusisKing222 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I forgot how much i loved Welsh Rarebit from a little NYC pub in back in the 80’s-soo good

    • @yelenayeli9529
      @yelenayeli9529 ปีที่แล้ว

      Use plantbased milk instead. And make this milk yourself. The store bought is often expensive and do not contain much nutrional value.

  • @yvettegerry9862
    @yvettegerry9862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We cut our toast in diamonds and have any veggie you like it’s my nephews favorite dinner the creamed eggs . Use canned milk on your rice tastes richer . Like the frozen biscuits at Sams the best . The cake is good with dried cranberries also and a pat of butter when you don’t have ice cream or icing. Great video ! You are so pretty 🤩!

    • @lucyphenicie5236
      @lucyphenicie5236 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      My mom also made creamed eggs on
      Toast.please do more
      Depression recipes or
      WW 11ones also interesting ones there
      Too,with lots of veggies
      Because of gardens.

  • @tiffanycurtis5046
    @tiffanycurtis5046 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My Nanny who is 98 always made an applesauce cake at Christmas which my dad said he loved. I got the recipe from my aunt and plan to surprise him during the holidays. I made a test run and it was delicious!

  • @OrdinaryOwens
    @OrdinaryOwens 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Loving the Depression Era recipe videos!

  • @dewuknowHIM
    @dewuknowHIM ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Grew up with all these recipes....
    They are comfort foods to me.....
    These recipes were made out of desperation in the depression...
    May have to use them again soon !
    💖😬😁

  • @DRFALLIS
    @DRFALLIS ปีที่แล้ว

    My parents grew up during the depression and all of these recipes were part of my childhood makes me hungry and reminence

  • @carmarasmussen8118
    @carmarasmussen8118 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My mom has been making the white sauce with eggs since I was a little girl. We had it as a camping breakfast except she served it over biscuits. I like to sprinkle mine with lots of black pepper. Yum!

  • @kathyglass3582
    @kathyglass3582 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hi Kimmy I enjoyed this video so much. Just wanted to let you know in case you’re interested a great recipe from that era is country fried steak but to make it more cost effective you substitute hamburger meat for the steak. So 😋

  • @marysexton8482
    @marysexton8482 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm getting Hungary watching you cook !!!!! Love your channel.... From N.C