I was talking to my 88 year old mother after watching today's video and asked her if she'd ever heard of the Larkin Company. I'm so glad I did because Mom responded with an enthusiastic, "yes!" Mom then told me that my father's mother sold Larkin products in the mid 1920's. My grandmother was born in 1895 and was in her 30s when she was a Larkin Lady. My mom then showed me some pieces of Noritake china made for Larkin that my grandmother either bought or earned as sales premiums while selling Larkin products. It's a very incomplete set of china. I never knew any of this family history. Now I have the family history to attach to the Azalea china pieces my mother has. Prior to today I think I only associated Larkin with antique soap advertising and perhaps a type of chair. Thank you so much for providing historical information about the Larkin Company!
good for you!! yes, larkin company sold many household items, including furniture. they were the sears roebuck and brand names over 120 years ago before sears was a household name.
As I watch in my living room, I’m sitting across from a Larkin soap desk. People collected soap labels and redeemed them for furniture in the late 19th century. This one is from my uncle’s great aunt. I look forward each week for your Sunday videos.
Wait what does that mean? I'm confused lol, and intrigued. What do you mean by soap labels? The only way my brain is making sense of it is that people collected soap (the cleaner) labels/boxes and exchanged them for furniture, which doesn't even make sense.
@@baumi8125 my guess it's like collecting the barcodes or box tops or yoplait yogurt lids. These were collected and sent to the company to redeem for prizes or in the case of boxtops, to get money donated to your school.
I'm from Michigan and find it entertaining how people from the Great Lakes region will say "just across the lake" but mean "90 miles of open water away".
Midwesterners evaluate distances differently. My monthly 6 hour drive to Chicago from St. Louis was no big deal (utterly flat with a single small grove of trees halfway there). Then I came east. When we drive to NYC from DC, which is about 4 hours, we have to prepare! (Of course the traffic and NYC drivers make it far more stressful then my pleasant peaceful drives to Chicago).
I'm from Michigan too, and for us, it's even less descriptive too, because there's a lake in practically everyone's backyard, so you just know which lake by context LOL!
On a clear day you can see Toronto “just across the lake” (from the Buffalo/Rochester side of the lake) and/or see Rochester from the CN Tower… that must mean that it’s right there, you just can’t get there from here
With 3 "fillers" (rice, macaroni and crackers) that recipe had to be invented by a very creative mother (on a budget) looking to make a pound of ground beef stretch to feed a family! Well done to that mom!
Mine was to fill the casserole with vegetables(onions, celery, peppers, mushrooms, peas, corn) and use only one 'filler'. Cause let's face it vegetables are cheaper per pound than ground meats.
@@RonJohn63 AND they're cupboard ingredients! A dish which only requires a couple of cupboard stapels to throw together is a great thing to have in your repertoire.
@I_am_blur you have to remember the time and place this recipe was written. Time, whilst America hadn't joined world war 1 yet imports from Europe had probably all but dried up. Place, Mrs Smith the lady who sent in the recipe lived in Arkansas. Today just over 40% of people who live in Arkansas live in a rural area, a 100 years ago it would likely have been about double that
Thanks for the Buffalo shout-out this morning! We appreciate it! There is an area just on the edge of downtown called Larkinville which is where the company HQ and warehouses were. The HQ is gone, but the warehouses are still there, now lofts and offices. The family had a cluster of homes on the edge of Delaware Park known as "Larkland". Down the rabbit hole indeed!
So I did a little research, and I have to say, I can't believe they tore down a Frank Lloyd Wright building (around 1950)! To build a truck stop, no less! And then they never built said truck stop, and now the site id just a parking lot.
First thing after I watched the video I had to find out the fate of the building, and I feared the worst. Sadly, my fears were confirmed. I did a quick search, and it looks like a lot of his commercial buildings were lost one way or another.
Yeah, it's really unfortunate that the Larkin Admin Building was torn down. Buffalo has other Frank Lloyd Wright designed homes and buildings, but every one of them that gets torn down is an incredible loss.
Larkin sounds a lot like an earlier version of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Based on mail order, but with their own department stores, too. Love your "deep dives." I'm sure the librarians at Buffalo's pulbic libraries were a big help. I've used them myself over the years.
I am late to this but I have been to the Larkin building in Peoria. They had a lot of stores and gas stations in Peoria. Their main building was used by Hiram Walker for storage and then it was used as a Larkin type mail order business in the mid 60s and in to the 70s by Foster Gallager. I went to the store several times with my parents. I don't remember when the store closed but the company went under at the turn of the 21st century.
Michigander here! I’ve never heard of this, but my German grandparents arrived 1915-1920 and probably weren’t looking at English-language cookbooks. This sort of reminds me though of a casserole my mom made: raw hamburger, chopped onion, diced green pepper, can of corn, uncooked rice, tomato sauce, salt and pepper, raw bacon then bake. Loved it as a kid and still do. Definite comfort food.
Glen..back in those days jobs were much more physical on the whole, and these folks would have needed foods high in carbs, what we southerners would call 'rib sticking ' food. Now the average wife may or may not have understood dietary needs, but she did understand what her family needed.
The Larkin Building is gone, but you can still visit Frank Lloyd Wright designed Darwin Martin House and Greycliff in the Buffalo area. I recommend it.
I recently discovered your videos and quickly became addicted! I can honestly say I LOVE your channel! Your videos are so wholesome and I find your voice so comforting to listen to. You have a new friend from the UK! Keep up the good work!
I have the 1917 version of the same cookbook. It cost 30 cents vs. the 25 cents of your 1915 book. About $7.00 in 2021 money, which seems a lot for a small promotional cookbook. Thanks for the info on the Larkin Company history, I have wondered about the history behind the book. Can I suggest you try making the Maple Syrup (Ice)Cream (pg 99)?
Mom's version of goulash! You skipped the onion, it's much better with that onion flavor! Thanks for reminding me of this recipe, love the old cookbook show! Best to you and Jules!
Thinking of all the ingredients and how they would taste, I’m almost sure that there would have been a much better reaction if the onion wasn’t omitted.
I love marginalia in old cookbooks. 😍 It's where all the good stuff happens. By the way, can you tell me what it is that makes the Turkish Rice, Turkish?
As a Michigander born and raised, albeit I’m only 30, I’ve never heard of this dish. I am going to try and make it later though because it sounds pretty good.
This reminds me of a recipe I adapted from Paula Deens Porcupine Balls in her kids cookbook. It's just uncooked rice, ground beef, canned tomatoes, beef stock, and seasoned salt. Put it in a big baking dish, cover, bake at least an hour. Simple, but great. Add italian seasoning or mexican seasoning, or even veggies. Takes about 2 minutes to assemble, uses half a lb of meat, and nothing is precooked. We love it. Can't wait to hear more about Larkin!
Porcupine balls - that's a recipe that goes waaaay back. I have cookbooks from the earliest part of the 1800s that all have the same recipe, and it remains strong until around the late 1940s.
My family has made something similar for generations. I'd always assumed it was a depression era comfort food, but regardless of the origin, it is one of my favorite comfort foods!
Hi Glen, Hi Julie, Hi Friends, and Meow, Chicken, I heard you come in at the end there! Thanks for all your videos, I am really enjoying learning all kinds of stuff from you, love the history and stories and your adventurous go-to-it spirit and attitude. You're good company to keep during the pandemic.
I found this recipe very interesting it sound like something that my brothers would love after a game I think I’ll give it a whirl but add a few other ingredients, like chopped onions & perhaps Mexican spices and instead of saltine crackers I’ll crumbly Fritos on top. Honestly thank you for sharing this recipe it can be changed up in many ways, I’ll try out this original recipe first on my parents & grandparents. Thank you again I’m loving your channel! 💖
Sounds like one of the casseroles my mom would whip up when money was short. Didn't look overly appetizing when you were putting it together, but it would definitely be worth a try.
I wonder how many localities have a hash named after them? Take out the pasta, add some bell pepper, onions and chili powder and you have a Texas Hash. Rearange a few other ingredients and you have a Cuban Picadillo.
Hello neighbor (fellow Ontarioian) saw one of your videos(macaroni puddibg)on my recommendations and it peeked my interest. Then seeing this one on your page I had to watch it and glad I did. Thanks for sharing these great recipes with us.
Elbert Hubbard, founder of the Roycroft Arts and Crafts movement, made his money selling Larkin soap. We knew about Larkin in my home town south of Buffalo, because that’s where he settled to form the Roycroft community.
My grandmother used to make rice casserole with brown hamburger on top and lot of butter of course, but she made it everyday and to be honest I never got tired of it. It was a time when I help my family at the farm in the summer time. She was German but not Scottish.
I work in a meat market, and my old boss always had a joke when people would come up and ask for hamburger. He'd say "we don't sell hamburgers, you have to go across the street to Hardee's". Still makes me laugh. The looks some of the old ladies would give him were priceless.
It was awesome seeing you get into it Glen!😎👍👍 "Larkin pepper, Larkin this and Larkin that......" You so rock Glen! Strange, growing up in T.O. and spending loads of time in Buffalo with relatives and never heard about it from them. That office building does look familiar though!🙏🙏
well if you saw the building in the 40s or early 50s - sure it would look familiar. and good for you. but it’s been long gone and not redone since the city of buffalo tore it down many moons ago
I'm typing up my grandfather's collection of recipes (he was from Maine, but traveled all over the US with my grandmother in their Winnebago during their retirement years), and it's such a hoot to type up "hamburg" in the ingredients listings. It's been a really fun project.
I took some of those types of classes several years ago in Ohio, and I'll tell you they often forget the impact seasoning has. I think I still have the recipe cards they have somewhere, and they barely mentioned salt, let alone herbs or spices.
A good one for economy cooking. My mom’s series of encyclopedic cookbooks had one that was devoted to economy cooking. Love the simplicity and makes me feel good to take simple ingredients and make a meal that will fill us up, save coin and result in leftovers.
I did a little Googling, and long and short macaroni is a thing, the long being the shape that you would find in a pack of KD, but a little longer, the short being anything from elbows to tubettini... Cheers!
@@cathycasuccio3227 If you are an American, or from Australia, this wonderful guilty pleasure is known to you as Kraft Macaroni And Cheese, or Kraft Mac And Cheese... here in Canada, it is known as Kraft Dinner, or by its initials, KD... So much love for this ❤️❤️❤️
@@rebelcolorist I’m American and can vouch for the fact that , back in the day, we also called the blue box a “Kraft Dinner”. You have to be of an age in the US to remember that, though.
I did not know about the Larkin Company. Really surprising. When you think about mail-order from that time, Sears & Montgomery Ward come to mind. But Larkin sounds like it was a serious competitor in the mail-order business.
it was, it truly was. they started door to door selling soap, and Darwin Martin - the CEO for Larkin Co. at the time, thought mail order would help the company boost profits and they started selling many household items, including dishes and furniture via catalogs, and perks - like s and h green stamp style. He was the one who contracted with Frank Lloyd Wright to design the Larkin Building, Darwin Martin’s own home and a summer getaway for his wife (she had bad vision) in Derby NY called Graycliff. The depression hit them hard, and helped Sears and Roebuck survive those years. Such a history with them - our main library and historical society have many letters between Darwin, his wife and Frank with design and cost issues. buffalo ny restored their residence and gate houses - they offer tours. they have tiffany stained glass windows. pbs did some documentaries on their homes, the restorations, and how it was funded. we’re proud of the history of buffalo.
I just bought the cookbook on Kindle for $4.00 US. I flipped thru it and found a lot of good sounding recipes. They need to have the temperatures figured out and some cut down for 2 people. The set up is very well done with a good index in the back. Just click on what you want instead of scanning thru the book. If I would make the recipe, I would brown the burger first and pick just one carb. Two carbs are for hard working people of that day that would work it off. Julie's face was great. Glen please find one of the desserts or breads or ? to make please.
Larkin with their wide variety of products, kind of reminds me of "Binford" on Tim Allen's "Tool Time" on his "Home Improvement" TV show. "Binford" also made a wide variety of products.
Great video Glen & Julie. One tiny geographic modification though. We in Buffalo are not quite just across your Great Lake (Ontario), we are the other side of nearby Lake Erie. I know it doesn't matter much and I know that you know the difference, but others may not. In the 1950's we were dumb enough to demolish the world famous Larkin Administration building, but many Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings survive including the magnificent Darwin Martin complex. Martin was a head honcho at the Larkin Company. Thanks again for this and other great videos. I could listen to Julie's laugh forever.
Many markets in my area differentiate between Ground Beef and Hamburger, with hamburger being the fattier, cheaper option. Also, we have a Larkin Street and Larkin Township here in Midland County MI.
I have to say something here. Side note. Does anyone not know about Hamburger Helper? Its purpose was to take a pounnd of ground to the next level, by adding the box ingredients, along with water, and follow instructions. My all-time favorite was the Hamburger Helper with rice. Thanks again for sharing!
Chicken's been in a few vids but this particular video was funny and you get to see Chicken! Forward to 26:17 of this beer video with Glenn and Julie. th-cam.com/video/C0s4cS_m5JM/w-d-xo.html
Glen, I'm feeling very silly today. Every time you said Larkin, In my head, I said Blarkin. Larkin Blarkin. Then I giggled. My cat is judging me and looks concerned 😂. Love your channel!
Funny - Joule's face!! Sounds like a classic left-overs stretch-out the meat type dish popular back in the day (when many didn't have a lot.) I'd say brown off the mince/hamburger, loose the crackers & top with grated cheese, season with paprika - I think this is a good kid's supper dish! Always a fascinating trip down the old culinary hiway... 👍🐾🦘🦅👌
I’m from Metro Detroit and have never heard of “Michigan Hash”. This is quite interesting. A NY company published an AR recipe for a Michigan dish. That’s the melting pot for you. 👍🏻 Take out the rice, add bell peppers and you have my moms “goulash”. Take out the macaroni, swap tomatoes for cream of mushroom soup and you have what mom called “pantry slop”. I might try this recipe but I’ll add a bit of chili heat.
funny when I make baked mac and cheese the pan I use holds a little less than 3 pounds of macaroni. During the pandemic I've been buying in bulk to have it delivered, which is two pound boxes of macaroni. Instead of having an open box of macaroni lying around I end up cooking two boxes and have left over. It's just a thing that's happened now that I didn't pay attention to until you said it.
I've certainly heard "hamburger" used specifically of low-grade (like 27% fat) ground beef. I do live in Niagara Falls just across the ditch but I'm a transplant - grew up on the other end of Lake Ontario. ;p So I didn't know about the Larkin Co.
There is a “Hamburg steak” here in Japan which is like a fatter oval shaped minced meat patty, grilled and served with veggies. I had no idea what that was when I first arrived. In Australia it’s a 🍔 or minced meat or rissoles which are round meat patties
I'm from the Netherlands and our concept of ground meat is different. We don't have seasoned ground meat in our stores. We can buy hamburger ground beef, which is seasoned, but it comes in the shape of patties, so you can put them on a bun. Or we can buy unseasoned patties, which we call tartares. And sausage ground meat we can only buy in sausage form, and unseasoned is just found as regular ground pork. So the whole concept of hamburger, sausage and ground meat is already pre-determined in our language. I would like to know if you have an exact definition of unshaped hamburger and sausage ground meat. Love the videos! Keep up the great work!
At least where I live (in the western US), "hamburger" means the ground beef. "A hamburger" or "hamburgers" means the sandwich(s) with a grilled ground beef patty. "Hamburg" isn't used beyond referencing the city in Germany.
We lived on Larkin Place in my teen years when we moved on up to a brand new subdivision, in San Diego, CA. I never knew the name had any significance beyond maybe somebody who put up money for that development as per usual. Cool!
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I was talking to my 88 year old mother after watching today's video and asked her if she'd ever heard of the Larkin Company. I'm so glad I did because Mom responded with an enthusiastic, "yes!" Mom then told me that my father's mother sold Larkin products in the mid 1920's. My grandmother was born in 1895 and was in her 30s when she was a Larkin Lady. My mom then showed me some pieces of Noritake china made for Larkin that my grandmother either bought or earned as sales premiums while selling Larkin products. It's a very incomplete set of china. I never knew any of this family history. Now I have the family history to attach to the Azalea china pieces my mother has. Prior to today I think I only associated Larkin with antique soap advertising and perhaps a type of chair. Thank you so much for providing historical information about the Larkin Company!
good for you!! yes, larkin company sold many household items, including furniture. they were the sears roebuck and brand names over 120 years ago before sears was a household name.
That’s a bonus win win family historical moment!
As I watch in my living room, I’m sitting across from a Larkin soap desk. People collected soap labels and redeemed them for furniture in the late 19th century. This one is from my uncle’s great aunt. I look forward each week for your Sunday videos.
Wait what does that mean? I'm confused lol, and intrigued.
What do you mean by soap labels? The only way my brain is making sense of it is that people collected soap (the cleaner) labels/boxes and exchanged them for furniture, which doesn't even make sense.
@@baumi8125 I'd suspect it was a form of voucher's/prizes/tickets etc
@@baumi8125 my guess it's like collecting the barcodes or box tops or yoplait yogurt lids. These were collected and sent to the company to redeem for prizes or in the case of boxtops, to get money donated to your school.
It was like the "green stamps" program. You saved the wrappers and could order from the catalog.
Keep in mind that during this time most laundry soap would come in bars that would be grated before using. So saving wrappers would be easy.
Julie’s face when she arrived said it all!
I'm from Michigan and find it entertaining how people from the Great Lakes region will say "just across the lake" but mean "90 miles of open water away".
Midwesterners evaluate distances differently. My monthly 6 hour drive to Chicago from St. Louis was no big deal (utterly flat with a single small grove of trees halfway there). Then I came east. When we drive to NYC from DC, which is about 4 hours, we have to prepare! (Of course the traffic and NYC drivers make it far more stressful then my pleasant peaceful drives to Chicago).
I'm from Michigan too, and for us, it's even less descriptive too, because there's a lake in practically everyone's backyard, so you just know which lake by context LOL!
On a clear day you can see Toronto “just across the lake” (from the Buffalo/Rochester side of the lake) and/or see Rochester from the CN Tower… that must mean that it’s right there, you just can’t get there from here
@@TamarLitvot I live in that small grove of trees! LOL
@@OhJodi69 I thank you for providing that lovely break in my monthly drive so many years ago.
With 3 "fillers" (rice, macaroni and crackers) that recipe had to be invented by a very creative mother (on a budget) looking to make a pound of ground beef stretch to feed a family! Well done to that mom!
Mine was to fill the casserole with vegetables(onions, celery, peppers, mushrooms, peas, corn) and use only one 'filler'. Cause let's face it vegetables are cheaper per pound than ground meats.
@@jjudy5869 different era, my dear. can’t compare 1940 to current day
@@RonJohn63 AND they're cupboard ingredients! A dish which only requires a couple of cupboard stapels to throw together is a great thing to have in your repertoire.
@@RonJohn63 The carbs also store longer without refrigeration compared to the veggies.
@I_am_blur you have to remember the time and place this recipe was written. Time, whilst America hadn't joined world war 1 yet imports from Europe had probably all but dried up. Place, Mrs Smith the lady who sent in the recipe lived in Arkansas. Today just over 40% of people who live in Arkansas live in a rural area, a 100 years ago it would likely have been about double that
Thanks for the Buffalo shout-out this morning! We appreciate it! There is an area just on the edge of downtown called Larkinville which is where the company HQ and warehouses were. The HQ is gone, but the warehouses are still there, now lofts and offices. The family had a cluster of homes on the edge of Delaware Park known as "Larkland". Down the rabbit hole indeed!
They tore down the Frank Lloyd Wright building?
I am wondering the same thing? They tore down that huge office building?
So I did a little research, and I have to say, I can't believe they tore down a Frank Lloyd Wright building (around 1950)! To build a truck stop, no less! And then they never built said truck stop, and now the site id just a parking lot.
First thing after I watched the video I had to find out the fate of the building, and I feared the worst. Sadly, my fears were confirmed. I did a quick search, and it looks like a lot of his commercial buildings were lost one way or another.
Yeah, it's really unfortunate that the Larkin Admin Building was torn down. Buffalo has other Frank Lloyd Wright designed homes and buildings, but every one of them that gets torn down is an incredible loss.
"That's a lot of carbohydrates!" -- Thanks, Jules. You only said what I was just thinking.
Can we all get behind Glen making the "Salamagundi" recipe from this book? 0:54
I was thinking the same thing or did you see the recipe under the one he made beef and rice or the cod fish recipe
Larkin sounds a lot like an earlier version of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Based on mail order, but with their own department stores, too.
Love your "deep dives." I'm sure the librarians at Buffalo's pulbic libraries were a big help. I've used them myself over the years.
exactly!! you have that right. 😊
The look on her face when she first sees the hash is amazing.
I am late to this but I have been to the Larkin building in Peoria. They had a lot of stores and gas stations in Peoria. Their main building was used by Hiram Walker for storage and then it was used as a Larkin type mail order business in the mid 60s and in to the 70s by Foster Gallager. I went to the store several times with my parents. I don't remember when the store closed but the company went under at the turn of the 21st century.
Man i was gonna say "Drinking game on every time you say Larkin'" but wow!
I'm absolutely addicted to this channel, your videos are very entertaining! Another gem of a video you made here, Glen!
Michigander here! I’ve never heard of this, but my German grandparents arrived 1915-1920 and probably weren’t looking at English-language cookbooks. This sort of reminds me though of a casserole my mom made: raw hamburger, chopped onion, diced green pepper, can of corn, uncooked rice, tomato sauce, salt and pepper, raw bacon then bake. Loved it as a kid and still do. Definite comfort food.
Glen..back in those days jobs were much more physical on the whole, and these folks would have needed foods high in carbs, what we southerners would call
'rib sticking ' food. Now the average wife may or may not have understood dietary needs, but she did understand what her family needed.
Cheap and filling was often the primary characteristic of a "good" meal. Take the above hash casserole and serve it with white bread and marg.
The Larkin Building is gone, but you can still visit Frank Lloyd Wright designed Darwin Martin House and Greycliff in the Buffalo area. I recommend it.
don’t forget about the filling station and some homes he designed on tillinghast,
I recently discovered your videos and quickly became addicted! I can honestly say I LOVE your channel! Your videos are so wholesome and I find your voice so comforting to listen to. You have a new friend from the UK! Keep up the good work!
Thanks for watching Everyone! *Did you know about they Larkin Company? Do you have any of their products?*
Larkin was a soap company. Their main building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright who then designed the Darwin Martin House in Buffalo.
Yes I used to have a Larkin side by side which is a drop down desk attached to a small China cabinet. They were extremely popular in upstate NY.
Gah! I love history. And I love food. Thank u for things like this :)
I swear I've heard of the Larkin company. But I can't pinpoint where.
I have the 1917 version of the same cookbook. It cost 30 cents vs. the 25 cents of your 1915 book. About $7.00 in 2021 money, which seems a lot for a small promotional cookbook. Thanks for the info on the Larkin Company history, I have wondered about the history behind the book. Can I suggest you try making the Maple Syrup (Ice)Cream (pg 99)?
Mom's version of goulash! You skipped the onion, it's much better with that onion flavor! Thanks for reminding me of this recipe, love the old cookbook show! Best to you and Jules!
I am wondering why our lovely Glen didn’t put the onion in? 🤔🙃
@@thecalicoheart7946 When he does these old recipes, he tries to stick as closely as possible to the recipe to experience the foods our ancestors ate.
Huh that is weird, maybe he forgot to prep it or ran out of onions so just went with it.
Thinking of all the ingredients and how they would taste, I’m almost sure that there would have been a much better reaction if the onion wasn’t omitted.
@@thecalicoheart7946 The recipe in the book calls for onion. A big 2 TBsp worth!
Love when you start with the history - so interesting!
Oh wow, I have the same cookbook. Inherited it from my Canadian mother-in-law. I cherish mine for the hand written notes that she had inside.
I love marginalia in old cookbooks. 😍 It's where all the good stuff happens. By the way, can you tell me what it is that makes the Turkish Rice, Turkish?
@@znachkiznachki5352 dude, Dawn never mentioned rice. i think you replied to the wrong post.
“I don’t know WHY you’d have left-over macaroni”: this made me chortle, as I don’t know why either!
Jules' initial expression was mine looking at the title card.
I enjoy Glen and friends cooking thanks
As a Michigander born and raised, albeit I’m only 30, I’ve never heard of this dish. I am going to try and make it later though because it sounds pretty good.
I love the recipe name below it in the book, “Casserole of Rice and Meat”. I'm imagining a housewife saying, "Well, that's what it is." 🤣🤣🤣
One of our family casseroles growing up was Beef, Peas and Rice. Yep, exactly as it sounds!
Now Sunday can start!
When I was a kid, hamburg was Grandma's code for "run up to Johnny's (local market) and have him grind me a rolled roast".
Perfect for kids! We call a version of this "Garbage Can", which kids get a kick out of. Definitely comfort.
When I saw "Michigan Hash" I got excited. It's some of my favorite of all time. Oh.. and also this dish is pretty good 😜
I love seeing a beautifully clean oven like that!
Julie, you took the words out of my mouth.
I really should invest in more cookbooks. Hello from the uk.
Love the interaction during the tasting. I think I want to try this one because I wasn't expecting you to enjoy it and yet..... you did!!!
This reminds me of a recipe I adapted from Paula Deens Porcupine Balls in her kids cookbook. It's just uncooked rice, ground beef, canned tomatoes, beef stock, and seasoned salt. Put it in a big baking dish, cover, bake at least an hour. Simple, but great. Add italian seasoning or mexican seasoning, or even veggies. Takes about 2 minutes to assemble, uses half a lb of meat, and nothing is precooked. We love it. Can't wait to hear more about Larkin!
Porcupine balls - that's a recipe that goes waaaay back. I have cookbooks from the earliest part of the 1800s that all have the same recipe, and it remains strong until around the late 1940s.
sounds like goulash balls.
That's the cleanest oven I've ever seen!
Great base for any hot dish / casserole. So easily adjustable for whatever you want to put in. Thanks, Glen.
My family has made something similar for generations. I'd always assumed it was a depression era comfort food, but regardless of the origin, it is one of my favorite comfort foods!
Hi Glen, Hi Julie, Hi Friends, and Meow, Chicken, I heard you come in at the end there! Thanks for all your videos, I am really enjoying learning all kinds of stuff from you, love the history and stories and your adventurous go-to-it spirit and attitude. You're good company to keep during the pandemic.
Love Glen's history lessons. Reminds me of some of my favorite teachers.
I heard your cat meowing quietly as you were spooning out the serving and now it’s ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT.
I heard it too. 2 soft meows. Now I want to see the cat.
can be heard at the end as well, 9:22
I found this recipe very interesting it sound like something that my brothers would love after a game I think I’ll give it a whirl but add a few other ingredients, like chopped onions & perhaps Mexican spices and instead of saltine crackers I’ll crumbly Fritos on top. Honestly thank you for sharing this recipe it can be changed up in many ways, I’ll try out this original recipe first on my parents & grandparents. Thank you again I’m loving your channel! 💖
I live about an hour from Fort Smith, Ar!
Hello from Amherst, a suburb of Buffalo, NY.
woo woo! i’m from hamburg ny! howdy WNY posting pal 😊
Sounds like one of the casseroles my mom would whip up when money was short. Didn't look overly appetizing when you were putting it together, but it would definitely be worth a try.
Neat that it was Michigan hash. The captain for the Detroit Red Wings is a Larkin
“Half a package of Larkin Pure Codfish”! Amazing!
I love being on TH-cam when you post.
I wonder how many localities have a hash named after them? Take out the pasta, add some bell pepper, onions and chili powder and you have a Texas Hash. Rearange a few other ingredients and you have a Cuban Picadillo.
Swap the rice in Texas Hash for macaroni and you have Michigan goulash.
@@cydrych Add mozzarella cheese to your Michigan Goulash and replace the chili powder with italian seasoning, and you'll have Johnny Marzetti.
Ah! So that's how books work. You have to open them to know what's inside them. Very informative. Thank you.
Hello neighbor (fellow Ontarioian) saw one of your videos(macaroni puddibg)on my recommendations and it peeked my interest. Then seeing this one on your page I had to watch it and glad I did.
Thanks for sharing these great recipes with us.
Great mini history lesson! Thanks for another great video!
Elbert Hubbard, founder of the Roycroft Arts and Crafts movement, made his money selling Larkin soap. We knew about Larkin in my home town south of Buffalo, because that’s where he settled to form the Roycroft community.
I’m from Hamburg NY. I’ve posted some replies to other people’s comments trying to educate them on our Buffalo history. ☮️ southtowns neighbor 😊
Love your videos, Glen!
My grandmother used to make rice casserole with brown hamburger on top and lot of butter of course, but she made it everyday and to be honest I never got tired of it. It was a time when I help my family at the farm in the summer time. She was German but not Scottish.
Grandma in Ohio always refers to ground beef or even a patty as “Hamburg”... I find myself referring to ground beef as both ground beef or hamburger
I work in a meat market, and my old boss always had a joke when people would come up and ask for hamburger. He'd say "we don't sell hamburgers, you have to go across the street to Hardee's". Still makes me laugh. The looks some of the old ladies would give him were priceless.
Have you had goetta? I’m from Ohio apparently it’s only known in this area. It’s a shame because it’s delicious.
Very nice Glenn 😊
It was awesome seeing you get into it Glen!😎👍👍 "Larkin pepper, Larkin this and Larkin that......" You so rock Glen! Strange, growing up in T.O. and spending loads of time in Buffalo with relatives and never heard about it from them. That office building does look familiar though!🙏🙏
well if you saw the building in the 40s or early 50s - sure it would look familiar. and good for you. but it’s been long gone and not redone since the city of buffalo tore it down many moons ago
I love this show! So interesting. Thank you!!
I'm typing up my grandfather's collection of recipes (he was from Maine, but traveled all over the US with my grandmother in their Winnebago during their retirement years), and it's such a hoot to type up "hamburg" in the ingredients listings. It's been a really fun project.
oh cool. memories are great - but does that pertain to larkin- flw - martin - buffalo? yeah, didn’t think so. but hoot hoot to you, boo
@@cathycasuccio3227 it applies to the use of the word 'hamburg' in old recipes, boo.
I have taught a number of cooking classes to low-income families. This recipe will go into my recipe repertoire.
I took some of those types of classes several years ago in Ohio, and I'll tell you they often forget the impact seasoning has. I think I still have the recipe cards they have somewhere, and they barely mentioned salt, let alone herbs or spices.
A good one for economy cooking. My mom’s series of encyclopedic cookbooks had one that was devoted to economy cooking. Love the simplicity and makes me feel good to take simple ingredients and make a meal that will fill us up, save coin and result in leftovers.
Thanks, 👍👍👍👍👍
I did a little Googling, and long and short macaroni is a thing, the long being the shape that you would find in a pack of KD, but a little longer, the short being anything from elbows to tubettini... Cheers!
what is KD??
@@cathycasuccio3227 If you are an American, or from Australia, this wonderful guilty pleasure is known to you as Kraft Macaroni And Cheese, or Kraft Mac And Cheese... here in Canada, it is known as Kraft Dinner, or by its initials, KD... So much love for this ❤️❤️❤️
@@rebelcolorist I’m American and can vouch for the fact that , back in the day, we also called the blue box a “Kraft Dinner”. You have to be of an age in the US to remember that, though.
In the 70s there was a Larkin store a block away from my antique shop.
I did not know about the Larkin Company. Really surprising. When you think about mail-order from that time, Sears & Montgomery Ward come to mind. But Larkin sounds like it was a serious competitor in the mail-order business.
it was, it truly was. they started door to door selling soap, and Darwin Martin - the CEO for Larkin Co. at the time, thought mail order would help the company boost profits and they started selling many household items, including dishes and furniture via catalogs, and perks - like s and h green stamp style. He was the one who contracted with Frank Lloyd Wright to design the Larkin Building, Darwin Martin’s own home and a summer getaway for his wife (she had bad vision) in Derby NY called Graycliff. The depression hit them hard, and helped Sears and Roebuck survive those years. Such a history with them - our main library and historical society have many letters between Darwin, his wife and Frank with design and cost issues. buffalo ny restored their residence and gate houses - they offer tours. they have tiffany stained glass windows. pbs did some documentaries on their homes, the restorations, and how it was funded. we’re proud of the history of buffalo.
I just bought the cookbook on Kindle for $4.00 US. I flipped thru it and found a lot of good sounding recipes. They need to have the temperatures figured out and some cut down for 2 people. The set up is very well done with a good index in the back. Just click on what you want instead of scanning thru the book. If I would make the recipe, I would brown the burger first and pick just one carb. Two carbs are for hard working people of that day that would work it off. Julie's face was great. Glen please find one of the desserts or breads or ? to make please.
Glenn mentions his video of hamburger helper in this video. Just want to say... it's a winner! One of the best "copy cat" recipes i've made.
My gawd, that oven is so clean!
greetings from australia
Looks good 👍
Larkin with their wide variety of products, kind of reminds me of "Binford" on Tim Allen's "Tool Time" on his "Home Improvement" TV show. "Binford" also made a wide variety of products.
Great video Glen & Julie. One tiny geographic modification though. We in Buffalo are not quite just across your Great Lake (Ontario), we are the other side of nearby Lake Erie. I know it doesn't matter much and I know that you know the difference, but others may not. In the 1950's we were dumb enough to demolish the world famous Larkin Administration building, but many Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings survive including the magnificent Darwin Martin complex. Martin was a head honcho at the Larkin Company. Thanks again for this and other great videos. I could listen to Julie's laugh forever.
Hey, I live in Buffalo! Hello from across the lake!
My grandparents from the east coast would refer to 'hamburg steak' as hamburger (ground beef) that was made from better cuts, like Sirloin or Round.
Never heard of the company, but as a base casserole this sounds really good.
Many markets in my area differentiate between Ground Beef and Hamburger, with hamburger being the fattier, cheaper option. Also, we have a Larkin Street and Larkin Township here in Midland County MI.
I've yet to try any recipes of yours yet, however I want to!
I have to say something here. Side note. Does anyone not know about Hamburger Helper? Its purpose was to take a pounnd of ground to the next level, by adding the box ingredients, along with water, and follow instructions. My all-time favorite was the Hamburger Helper with rice.
Thanks again for sharing!
Now, I've gotta find a quiet place to watch.
I live in Michigan in a house built in 1915. I think I might have to make this.
I found it funny that while you were shaking on the pepper, I had a sneezing fit that lasted well over five minutes.
a guy in sw pa has 138 acres and he rescues flw homes & rents them out for a weekend. has tours, etc. amazing.
Sounds like Chicken wanted to give it a try as well!
Is there a video with Chicken in it? I hear them meowing in a few but I'm dying to see the kitty.
Chicken's been in a few vids but this particular video was funny and you get to see Chicken! Forward to 26:17 of this beer video with Glenn and Julie. th-cam.com/video/C0s4cS_m5JM/w-d-xo.html
Lived in Michigan most of my life -- never heard of 'Michigan Hash'.
Would try it though -- lots of potential for leftovers.
It seems there is a copy of that exact book in the collection of the Henry Ford Museum here in Dearborn, Michigan.
I heard a kitty right when Glen said See ya soon at the very end.
Glen, I'm feeling very silly today. Every time you said Larkin, In my head, I said Blarkin. Larkin Blarkin. Then I giggled. My cat is judging me and looks concerned 😂. Love your channel!
Funny - Joule's face!! Sounds like a classic left-overs stretch-out the meat type dish popular back in the day (when many didn't have a lot.) I'd say brown off the mince/hamburger, loose the crackers & top with grated cheese, season with paprika - I think this is a good kid's supper dish! Always a fascinating trip down the old culinary hiway... 👍🐾🦘🦅👌
I’m from Metro Detroit and have never heard of “Michigan Hash”. This is quite interesting. A NY company published an AR recipe for a Michigan dish. That’s the melting pot for you. 👍🏻
Take out the rice, add bell peppers and you have my moms “goulash”. Take out the macaroni, swap tomatoes for cream of mushroom soup and you have what mom called “pantry slop”.
I might try this recipe but I’ll add a bit of chili heat.
i feel ya, fellow rust belter. 😊
From all of us here in Michigan we apologize for this recipe. Mistakes where made and we have learned from them.
🤣😅😂🤣 from your fellow michigander
funny when I make baked mac and cheese the pan I use holds a little less than 3 pounds of macaroni. During the pandemic I've been buying in bulk to have it delivered, which is two pound boxes of macaroni. Instead of having an open box of macaroni lying around I end up cooking two boxes and have left over. It's just a thing that's happened now that I didn't pay attention to until you said it.
I've certainly heard "hamburger" used specifically of low-grade (like 27% fat) ground beef.
I do live in Niagara Falls just across the ditch but I'm a transplant - grew up on the other end of Lake Ontario. ;p So I didn't know about the Larkin Co.
In Swedish the term hamburgerkött (literally hamburger meat) is used to refer to horse meat that is smoked and sliced for sandwiches.
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There is a “Hamburg steak” here in Japan which is like a fatter oval shaped minced meat patty, grilled and served with veggies. I had no idea what that was when I first arrived. In Australia it’s a 🍔 or minced meat or rissoles which are round meat patties
I'm from the Netherlands and our concept of ground meat is different. We don't have seasoned ground meat in our stores. We can buy hamburger ground beef, which is seasoned, but it comes in the shape of patties, so you can put them on a bun. Or we can buy unseasoned patties, which we call tartares. And sausage ground meat we can only buy in sausage form, and unseasoned is just found as regular ground pork. So the whole concept of hamburger, sausage and ground meat is already pre-determined in our language. I would like to know if you have an exact definition of unshaped hamburger and sausage ground meat. Love the videos! Keep up the great work!
Larkin Company sounds like Acme. All the things you need to catch a Road-Runner.
well, they didn’t catch a road runner but they did catch chicken and history was made with a wing 😁
Love it! And, of course, you had to linger on those other recipes, but just for a sec... Maybe you'll make them?? 😉
hehe, I find myself pausing the video to read the screenshots. I would love more screenshots of full pages of these old books.
Leftover mac-n-cheese would be great in this, I think!
At least where I live (in the western US), "hamburger" means the ground beef. "A hamburger" or "hamburgers" means the sandwich(s) with a grilled ground beef patty. "Hamburg" isn't used beyond referencing the city in Germany.
We lived on Larkin Place in my teen years when we moved on up to a brand new subdivision, in San Diego, CA. I never knew the name had any significance beyond maybe somebody who put up money for that development as per usual. Cool!