Cute! You are lucky to have testers... my granddaughter is too picky to try... 👍👍👍 My family ate warm milk, butter, salt, pepper (quite a bit of pepper) & Toasted Bread.. It will cure sore throat/cold.. "Milk toast".
Hi ya Jaime! I love frugal foods, it makes me happy that u r showing them. I’ve never had or heard of these, will definitely try. I was raised by my grandmother, I’m 57 now, she cooked some Depression foods. Chipped beef on toast, cornbread and beans and beans on bread, SOS, sourkrout (spell check) and hotdogs and a simple soup, hamburger meat, potatoes, carrots, salt and pepper, sometimes with onions, green beans. Oatmeal and toast, lots of fried/mashed potatoes. I prefer simple minded with few ingredients. Ur girls are a treasure, I greatly appreciate this and will watch ur other videos. Thank u
Wow that is wonderful. My grandmother would make a flap jack/ pancake syrup from coffee and sugar when they ran out of maple syrup. That is something she learned in the depression era.
Coffee Soup! I cant believe someone else has eaten this. My Dad (passed away when I was 2) started this tradition in our family. Only he ate colby cheese with it. I don't know why but I ate it alot growing up. I let my kids try it but they don't care for it at all. Thanks Jamie! Good Memories. :)
This is very useful to me as I make sourdough rye/wheat bread, fermented for 24 hours to make gluten more digestible and nutrients more available. I always freeze it as I do not have time to do it often, so it always gets toasted. Thank you for the cool ideas. I might mix toasted cubes with yogurt and pineapple (I buy it frozen and thaw to eat with yogurt as my breakfast most days.
Whenever we were ill during childhood, my mother would scald milk, crack an egg into it to poach, then pour the warm milk with egg over a slice of Sunbeam White Bread, then sprinkle granulated white sugar across the top of it. The flavor of that warm, sweet milk with that slightly runny cooked egg in it dances in my memory even today.... 67 years later..... it was warm enough to feel it trickle down through the chest and it always made us feel markedly better. That was pure love💖 in the warm milk.... we knew it too! 💖
French toast is also a good way to disguise stale bread. Actually, stale bread makes the best french toast. Might not seem like a "poverty" meal, but any frugal use of stale bread is a good economical victory for a homestead. If the daily routine includes baking bread, there is always stale leftovers, either give it to the chickens and dogs, or use it like in this video...thanks for the good ideas.
When I was growing up my grandfather and a friend's grandfather ate cornbread in buttermilk. It tasted horrible, for me, back then, but now that I'm older it is delightful.
Have enjoyed your videos. My grandparents lived through the depression and dust bowl and droughts. Our daily bread growing up was cornbread. My grandmother baked it most days for lunch, what we referred to as dinner because on the farm it was the big meal. She cooked it using a cast aluminum stove top loaf pan. When my grandfather came in from working the field at dark he often just asked for a glass of cornbread with sweet milk for “supper” while he sat in his recliner. I shared many a conversation with him over a glass of cornbread. That is still my favorite for finishing off a pan of stale cornbread. My grandparents were my first introduction to prepping, however to them it was just living smart. It is nice to see this lifestyle still going. Great videos and thanks for helping.
You know if it's unicorn approved, that it's good stuff! My mother was telling me this morning about a breakfast meal her mother would make during the depression. It had left over biscuits, tomatoes (home canned), and a little sugar. It would be cooked on the stove top in an iron skillet. My mother said it was really good and she had been craving it again.
As native NH. I prefer my Gram's sliced cream of wheat, warmed in a fry pan with a pat of butter, maple syrup with or without milk. Old fashioned oatmeal is still my first choice with apples & cranberries. That coffee soup would be interesting to make a bread pudding from with a little sweetener, egg and milk. Thank you for sharing these breakfasts. Its food for thought! I LOVE bread ! I am always open to ways of helping out my food budget and using up leftovers/stale foods. Thank you again..
I was not raised in America however I remember in my country I came from my grandparents saying stuff like this and we had other things that we created and made and became delicious meals thank you for bringing this back to my memory
Another idea is to cube the bread and toast it. Then mix eggs, cheese with milk & scramble. Season the egg mixture and pour the egg mixture over the toasted stale bread and bake. When the egg mixture is firm, remove from oven and enjoy. The milk softens the bread and helps to set them. I enjoy your videos very much.
Cute testers! My mom was born in 1944 to a large farm family. They often ate Bread, milk and sugar for breakfast as they did not have a lot of money. She said she loved it. Great video!
When we were young kids mom used to frequently make us the milk toast. She made it by toasting the bread, ripping it into chunks, then put milk and sugar on it. As an adult I've made it once in a great while cuz it is good and it's maybe a "comfort food" to me now that I'm getting older (nearing 60). I remember her making "maple syrup" by cooking water, sugar and some stuff called Mapleine. Sometimes she'd also put a drop or 2 of mapleine or molasses in our milk for a tasty treat.
Fascinating!! We are going to try these!! Thank you!! Your girls are so precious! Reminds me of some of our grandchildren! We have umm..I think about 26. And 3 Great-grandchildren.
I was born in 1949 in SC. My mom said my toddler food was often coffee, homemade biscuit and scrambled egg in it. I still love biscuits crumbled up in my coffee and sugar sprinkled on top.
I am tempted to let some bread go stale (it disappears too fast here!) just to try these. I love how willing to try new things your kids are. Give them a high five from us! When I was little (we were super broke), we used to do plain cooked rice with milk and sugar. I bet I'd love the bread version with honey. Thanks for an awesome video.
My Mum did that 😆 Great inexpensive dessert or breakfast or treat anytime. Mum would bake it in milk (half whole half powdered skim -which to drink was gross imo but couldn't tell in the rice 'pudding'). It got a lovely brown soft crust from a butter sugar topping. Served it with jam .... holy cow I'm going to have to make some! Thanks for the memory jiggle! ✌
bearzhere My Grandma used to make us milk toast when we were sick! My grandpa hated it and all things made of stale bread because it reminded him of the depression.
My Mom does the milk toast once in a while, I tried it and its good. I do my own creamed wheat which is just homemade bread crumbs and milk warmed up and stirred into a porridge like consistency. I add some brown sugar and cinnamon on the top. I'm addicted to that, I eat it once a week!
For # 1 we make coffee milk, cafe au lait. We also used left over rice for breakfast that you put in milk like cereal. Instead of maple syrup which is common in a lot of recipes, in South Louisiana, we used locally made cane syrup. We also use stale bread for French toast or bread pudding. We did this when I was growing up.(I'm in my fifties) It was/is a way to use up older bread rather than throw it away. It wasn't/isn't a poverty meal. This is food that is already store bought or made from scratch. It was/is being responsible by not throwing away perfectly good food and you aren't wasting money like is commonly done today. It's ridiculous the amount of food people throw away.
I know pancota. Italso makes a great dessert. Panzanella is also a classic Italian dish bread cubes tossed in olive oil with salt and pepper with spices.
Very interesting. My father and mother grew up during the depression. I heard of coffee soup, but never saw it. Cheap eats. Easy, how great is that. I will have to try your depression recipes. Thanks fir sharing! God bless you, God bless America.
I was waiting for the third one, my mom use to have "Bread Balls" with sugar and milk at night, she didn't toast the bread just tore it up and made little balls with it. Her Dad, my grandpa, was in WWII and the great depression. I never heard of the first two but I think I will try them sometime, good information to know in a pinch! I love this kind of stuff, I think young mothers would benefit learning what to feed their kids in a real bad situation.
Nicely done...good to have your tasters , helping out.. ...Coffee and Cream was a luxury item, reserved for the FatCats, back in the 40's. We had our dandelion and chicory rt coffee and berry leaf and pine needle teas.. Our big meal was always some kind of wild edibles....Stinging nettle , dandelion leaves , Cattail stalks and rhizomes. Kind of funny , cause you try and buy these items today in the grocery stores, and your paying a pretty penny. For protein, we loved our chopped pemmican soaked in wild edibles , soup.
My grandfather was a Marine in WW2. He told me they ate spam constantly. He said a buddy of his from Oklahoma opened a package from home one morning and his family had sent him letters, candy and a can of spam. He started running around screaming why did they send me stupid spam !! My grandfather said of all the hell we went through the ole Okie lost it over a can of spam. Lol
I thought my grandfather was the only person who ate stale bread with coffee and cream. I still eat it from time to time eventhough my grandfather has been gone for over 15 years. The knowledge that great generation had was lost except for those small things that were passed down like in your video. I think I will have some stale bread and coffee in the morning before putting on the uniform and heading to work. Thanks for the video. It also brought back many fond memories of my grandparents.
Interesting to see USA versions of this sort of thing. My Mum used to do the milk version (warm with some sugar) and sometimes toasted, sometimes not when I was a kid back in the late 40's and 50's in the UK. I like your videos, very interesting.
my late father loved to eat what he called 'broth' - a pudding basin filled to about three quarters with day old, cubed bread and topped with pieces of butter. hot milk was then poured over to cover the bread and it was finished with a liberal sprinkling of ground white pepper. couldn't stand the stuff but my brother would eat it from time to time. my mum didn't like it either but it was her job to make it. all this happened in rural North Dorset in the UK in the 1950s/60s,
In Scotland we used to make a lot of food like this. They usually involve milk and butter however, and instead of stale bread people used toasted oatcakes soaked in hot milk. The best I reckon is peasemeal brose, a kind of naturally gluten free breakfast made with roasted yellow pea flour and hot milk or butter and boiling water. I eat that for breakfast most mornings with raisins and honey, it has the texture of peanut butter. Only takes about 30 seconds to make.
So cool! Thanks for the education! Pane Cotto actually sounds pretty good to me! I tend to prefer savory over sweet. Your girls are great sports! They must have a pretty fun mom. ; )
I have to admit, I'm quite open minded and these all seemed disgusting to me, per the description. Thank you so much for sharing! The girls' reaction let me know that, should the zombies come, I could survive on such and not be miserable. Thanks so much for sharing... And thanks to the girls for being the testers! #lovethechannel
I love your channel! The Homemade Cereal recipe is identical to a recipe that my mother-in-law made for anyone in the family who was ill or an "invalid". My husband and his sister were allowed to have it as a special "treat" too when they returned home from school. Here in the UK Homsteading is not something that I have ever come across. If you are lucky here you have a small garden in which to grow food and if not sometimes you are able to rent an "allotment" of approximately (Ten rods or perches or poles - do you have these "imperial" sizes in the US?) this equates to 250sq metres in metric of land in a communal "garden" to grow food. I too have been concerend by trends of global instability and I find your posts refreshingly full of common sense advice, tips and good ideas for a more secure family life going forward. Thank you x
Hi Ruth and thanks for sharing! I thought you guys had smallholdings over there? Maybe that is another part of Europe? No we don't go by rods/perches/pols but we do have community gardens and of course we can always rent land. It really depends on the location.
My father was a depression kid. I don't know if this came from back then, but every once in a while my father would crush Saltines and pour in milk and eat it like cereal. Great episode. I just found you and have a lot of catching up to do!
I had some cranberry bread that was getting stale so I made French toast with it. So good. Now I could see me eating the toasted cranberry bread with milk, honey and cinnamon.
... Thanks Jamey... ( i like this video the 2nd time around too ; )... a few days ago, we had some some pumpernickel that went stale, so VIOLA... coffee soup it is. I even look on the stale rack @ wally's cuz i love the stuff.. my wife says i'm just a tightass ; ) ( she's called me a lot worse ; ) Yep, Jamey, you cook like i do. So Thanks again Guys & see ya on the next one.
When I was growing up back in the 1950's we had hot cocoa made with canned milk and buttered bread toasted in the broiler almost everyday for breakfast during school days. We would dunk our toast in the cocoa. Our breakfasts alternated between that and hot oatmeal with toast. I fed the same to my children. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for posting! We didn't drink coffee(LDS) but my Mother would make flour mush. Flour, milk or 1/2 & 1/2 sugar & a sprinkle of nutmeg. Yum! As kids we loved it. My Grandparents didn't feel the effects of the depression. Ranch was payed for & cattle & sheep were still sold. Wheat & oats still sold well too. BUT---Their daily life consisted of "Use it up & wear it out". I don't ever remember their "wasting".
I love to take butter bread or toast and dunk it in my coffee. It's pretty much the same as you are doing with your coffee soup but, I don't need a spoon really. I love watching your channel and hope you continue to make great videos
Parents were both from the depression and they just called it coffee toast in your first item" with their large households,... my father was french, and mother Irish. :-) Thanks for jogging my memory today. This brought back a nice memorie.
Here in Ireland as a kid my neighbour used to make a cup of tea, with milk and sugar. Stale bread was then broken up and put into the cup to soak. It would basically be a kind of warm mush. It was delicious. She called it Goody. She was a lady.
Sweet young ladies. Love the unicorn jacket! Great ideas for leftovers. Ours usually just go to chickens, rabbits, or hogs, but these are great options for when times are tough, and you need to stretch the groceries.
These are very creative recipes. It's amazing what you can come up with when there is not much food. Growing up I actually ate the last recipe you've shown, except for the bread we ate saltine crackers with milk and honey/sugar.
I just took some bread crusts, toasted them and served them to hubby cinnamon toast crunch! I put it in the toaster instead of heating up the whole oven. Mom would save stale bread for bread pudding, crotons, and bread pudding. I guess I've been throwing away too many bread crust that my family doesn't want. lol
My grandfather used to make something similar to the bread and milk dish. It was saltine crackers with milk and a sprinkle of sugar. He had a bowl every night before bed.
We poured milk (made from powdered milk) over torn up bread in a cereal bowl, then sprinkled with sugar. Was better than nothing. Nobody told us we were poor 😜.
this isnt a breakfast recepie but its a similar concept and imo worth sharing. panzanella, its basically a bread salad, good way to use up those old stale end bits of a loaf, absolutely great in the summer. basically its stale bread thats cut or torn up with fresh chopped tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, salt and olive oil, and whatever else you feel like throwing in. its one of those things where theres as many versions out there as there are people who make it.
Stale bread, buttered. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Cover with hot milk. Mom had sheep during the depression. She called this "bread pudding." We are this a lot growing up. Later on we added raisins. Decadence.
My earliest memory of this breakfast, was when my grandmother made it for me on cold winter mornings. I was six. It was served in a little white bowl. As I recall, it was NOLA "cafe au lait" with far more milk than coffee. But, it was hot, sweet, and the best part was the huge slice of fresh, hot French bread the delivery man dropped off every morning. The slice was slathered in butter. One of my best flavor memories. To this day when I get an "off" cup of coffee, I might add a tiny dab of butter. Mellows it out, right away!
my granny boone used to eat buttermilk or milk whichever she had and stale cornbread toasted with warm the butter with salt pepper. I still eat it time to time when I think of it.
My mom grew up eating milk toast, toasted bread torn up in warm milk, when she didn't feel well. I never really liked it but for a treat I did like warm milk with torn bread not toast and sugar. Oh I bet your turmeric milk would be good with bread in it :) Now I'm hungry :) My dad grew up with the coffee soup called "soakie" also had scrapple which was cornmeal cooked in water with seasonings and shredded scraps of meat till thick then placed in a loaf pan to cool slice flour and fry, kind of like fried polenta with bits of meat in it. My mom said that his mom made the best scrapple. My dad only made it once and I thought it was really good, mine not so much. I guess the quality of the cooks deteriorates with each generation :) Thanks for bringing back some yummy memories :)
Diane C. - when I was a kid (56 now), I remember my dad eating torn up bread & milk - it was really good, I loved it but haven't had it for years. His dad came from Camporeale, Sicily. Fond memories -- I might try it again tomorrow! 😉
I work with people who still eat coffee soup. I never acquired a taste for it and I am a Java Junkie. I grew up in a household where corn meal mush was served for breakfast and if we had any left over it would go into a loaf pan to cool. My mom would either fry it up for dinner that night or for breakfast the following day. Good Stuff 👍
Brenda Brosius YES had that as a kid and sweet too my hubby loves grits i discovered mixing cornmeal and grits and adding powdered milk adds a taste and texture thats FABULOUS i cant do alot of fat and the powdered milk lessens the need for butter and adds creaminess negating the use of a cream or half n half. He likes his with bacon shredded cheddar r and black pepper i still love brown sugar and/or honey 💜
Keeping with the stale bread part of the theme, you could do a simple bread pudding with raisins and cinnamon as the sweet and spice flavors. That's obviously not a poverty meal but its a cheaper desert/breakfast that works well with basic staple ingredients you always have on hand and stale bread. Easy to make too!
We grew up eating french toast hamburger..our mother could make a small amount of hamburger feed five of us..you mix hamburger with sauteed onion, salt and pepper,a little bit of milk to make the mixture spreadable, make a sandwich,dip it in egg and cook it like french toast..the hamburger mixture is spread quite thin so it will cook thru. I made that a couple of weeks ago while taking a trip down memory lane.
I watch your videos all the time. This one was in the top 10... in my opinion ...THANKS!
Cute! You are lucky to have testers... my granddaughter is too picky to try... 👍👍👍
My family ate warm milk, butter, salt, pepper (quite a bit of pepper) & Toasted Bread.. It will cure sore throat/cold.. "Milk toast".
The bread cube cereal is called Wheaties! The ministry of food in Britain used to advice people to make their bread go a day longer by doing this!
Oh the memories of my folks eating bread and milk. Thanks for the video.
Chipped Beef on toast: One of my favorites
Hi ya Jaime! I love frugal foods, it makes me happy that u r showing them. I’ve never had or heard of these, will definitely try. I was raised by my grandmother, I’m 57 now, she cooked some Depression foods. Chipped beef on toast, cornbread and beans and beans on bread, SOS, sourkrout (spell check) and hotdogs and a simple soup, hamburger meat, potatoes, carrots, salt and pepper, sometimes with onions, green beans. Oatmeal and toast, lots of fried/mashed potatoes. I prefer simple minded with few ingredients. Ur girls are a treasure, I greatly appreciate this and will watch ur other videos. Thank u
Wow that is wonderful. My grandmother would make a flap jack/ pancake syrup from coffee and sugar when they ran out of maple syrup. That is something she learned in the depression era.
Similar to coffee soup, but not. How unique!
i get the biggest smile watching you include your daughters in this. :)
I love these ideas, but what I absolutely love the most is the Unicorn outfit!!!! 😄👍❤️
Coffee Soup! I cant believe someone else has eaten this. My Dad (passed away when I was 2) started this tradition in our family. Only he ate colby cheese with it. I don't know why but I ate it alot growing up. I let my kids try it but they don't care for it at all. Thanks Jamie! Good Memories. :)
I have the same coffee press. Love it.
Bread pudding is how we ate our stale bread growing up...so yummy! Id try these if I HAD to but the cereal looks the most appealing!
This is very useful to me as I make sourdough rye/wheat bread, fermented for 24 hours to make gluten more digestible and nutrients more available. I always freeze it as I do not have time to do it often, so it always gets toasted. Thank you for the cool ideas. I might mix toasted cubes with yogurt and pineapple (I buy it frozen and thaw to eat with yogurt as my breakfast most days.
Whenever we were ill during childhood, my mother would scald milk, crack an egg into it to poach, then pour the warm milk with egg over a slice of Sunbeam White Bread, then sprinkle granulated white sugar across the top of it. The flavor of that warm, sweet milk with that slightly runny cooked egg in it dances in my memory even today.... 67 years later..... it was warm enough to feel it trickle down through the chest and it always made us feel markedly better. That was pure love💖 in the warm milk.... we knew it too! 💖
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Wow that actually sounds great
French toast is also a good way to disguise stale bread. Actually, stale bread makes the best french toast. Might not seem like a "poverty" meal, but any frugal use of stale bread is a good economical victory for a homestead. If the daily routine includes baking bread, there is always stale leftovers, either give it to the chickens and dogs, or use it like in this video...thanks for the good ideas.
When I was growing up my grandfather and a friend's grandfather ate cornbread in buttermilk. It tasted horrible, for me, back then, but now that I'm older it is delightful.
im going to try some ..
Growing up on a cattle ranch in the 50's when sick we were fed homemade cinnamon toast and warm milk...warm, buttery, liquid LOVE!!
My Dad was fond of cornbread in a glass of buttermilk. I never could stand it but he loved it.
We used to have bread pudding. Cut the old bread into cubes and mix it into an egg custard. Chill and serve for dessert.
You have very nice daughters! And I like your channel. Greetings from Holland
Have enjoyed your videos. My grandparents lived through the depression and dust bowl and droughts. Our daily bread growing up was cornbread. My grandmother baked it most days for lunch, what we referred to as dinner because on the farm it was the big meal. She cooked it using a cast aluminum stove top loaf pan. When my grandfather came in from working the field at dark he often just asked for a glass of cornbread with sweet milk for “supper” while he sat in his recliner. I shared many a conversation with him over a glass of cornbread. That is still my favorite for finishing off a pan of stale cornbread. My grandparents were my first introduction to prepping, however to them it was just living smart. It is nice to see this lifestyle still going. Great videos and thanks for helping.
You know if it's unicorn approved, that it's good stuff! My mother was telling me this morning about a breakfast meal her mother would make during the depression. It had left over biscuits, tomatoes (home canned), and a little sugar. It would be cooked on the stove top in an iron skillet. My mother said it was really good and she had been craving it again.
I have never heard of that one! I did have some coffee soup this morning though ;0)
As native NH. I prefer my Gram's sliced cream of wheat, warmed in a fry pan with a pat of butter, maple syrup with or without milk. Old fashioned oatmeal is still my first choice with apples & cranberries. That coffee soup would be interesting to make a bread pudding from with a little sweetener, egg and milk. Thank you for sharing these breakfasts. Its food for thought! I LOVE bread ! I am always open to ways of helping out my food budget and using up leftovers/stale foods. Thank you again..
I was not raised in America however I remember in my country I came from my grandparents saying stuff like this and we had other things that we created and made and became delicious meals thank you for bringing this back to my memory
Another idea is to cube the bread and toast it. Then mix eggs, cheese with milk & scramble. Season the egg mixture and pour the egg mixture over the toasted stale bread and bake. When the egg mixture is firm, remove from oven and enjoy. The milk softens the bread and helps to set them. I enjoy your videos very much.
I used to eat dried bread broken up in a glass of milk as a kid at my grandparents house. Every now and then I still get a craving for that!
Cute testers! My mom was born in 1944 to a large farm family. They often ate Bread, milk and sugar for breakfast as they did not have a lot of money. She said she loved it. Great video!
Have you tried it?
No...but I am going to make it after watching this.
When we were young kids mom used to frequently make us the milk toast. She made it by toasting the bread, ripping it into chunks, then put milk and sugar on it. As an adult I've made it once in a great while cuz it is good and it's maybe a "comfort food" to me now that I'm getting older (nearing 60).
I remember her making "maple syrup" by cooking water, sugar and some stuff called Mapleine. Sometimes she'd also put a drop or 2 of mapleine or molasses in our milk for a tasty treat.
I bet it was a brand of extract. Thanks for sharing!
when I was a broke young man living on my own I had many breakfasts consisting of bread with syrup drizzled over it. You do what you gotta to get by!
I love all, but coffee soup was my favorite! great video!!!! 😍 brought back old days for me, now going to have to make some with our stale bread! ty
Fascinating!! We are going to try these!! Thank you!! Your girls are so precious! Reminds me of some of our grandchildren! We have umm..I think about 26. And 3 Great-grandchildren.
I was born in 1949 in SC. My mom said my toddler food was often coffee, homemade biscuit and scrambled egg in it. I still love biscuits crumbled up in my coffee and sugar sprinkled on top.
+Frankie Odom It's so interesting how our diets have changed over the years (and how they haven't)! Thanks for sharing Frankie :0)
I am tempted to let some bread go stale (it disappears too fast here!) just to try these. I love how willing to try new things your kids are. Give them a high five from us! When I was little (we were super broke), we used to do plain cooked rice with milk and sugar. I bet I'd love the bread version with honey. Thanks for an awesome video.
+Noble Homestead We still do that when we have leftover rice! Only we add cinnamon too
I do that, too, when we have left over rice. I call it "rice pudding". Yum!
My Mum did that 😆 Great inexpensive dessert or breakfast or treat anytime. Mum would bake it in milk (half whole half powdered skim -which to drink was gross imo but couldn't tell in the rice 'pudding'). It got a lovely brown soft crust from a butter sugar topping. Served it with jam .... holy cow I'm going to have to make some! Thanks for the memory jiggle! ✌
Ooh that sounds GREAT!
Nice job and a Unicorn in the judging panel!!! ;o)
LOL
As a kid in the 50s we made cinnamon toast put the whole slice in a bowl and put milk on it. My gram called it milk toast !
bearzhere My Grandma used to make us milk toast when we were sick! My grandpa hated it and all things made of stale bread because it reminded him of the depression.
I do a similar meal with cubed, toasted, bread covered in cream of chicken soup. Maybe a touch of black pepper, salt, and paprika.
When I was little I ate "milk toast"! No
Cinnamon but I remember it vividly! Thanks for the info!
I very much remember eating milk toast with a little sugar and milk and stale toast and that was it. I still occasionally make it
My Mom does the milk toast once in a while, I tried it and its good. I do my own creamed wheat which is just homemade bread crumbs and milk warmed up and stirred into a porridge like consistency. I add some brown sugar and cinnamon on the top. I'm addicted to that, I eat it once a week!
LOL!! The girls facial expressions are hilarious... Thank you Jaime & Jeremy for sharing this.
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For # 1 we make coffee milk, cafe au lait. We also used left over rice for breakfast that you put in milk like cereal. Instead of maple syrup which is common in a lot of recipes, in South Louisiana, we used locally made cane syrup. We also use stale bread for French toast or bread pudding. We did this when I was growing up.(I'm in my fifties) It was/is a way to use up older bread rather than throw it away. It wasn't/isn't a poverty meal. This is food that is already store bought or made from scratch. It was/is being responsible by not throwing away perfectly good food and you aren't wasting money like is commonly done today. It's ridiculous the amount of food people throw away.
I know pancota. Italso makes a great dessert. Panzanella is also a classic Italian dish bread cubes tossed in olive oil with salt and pepper with spices.
agree, panna cotta is a cream dessert. What she made was a Panzanella.
Washday bread pudding: stale bread, eggs, can peaches or fruit cocktail, vanilla, raisens, honey or sugar, milk........350 degrees
Yum!
Hi Jamie,thanks for replying back, I hope you do try "the fried bread"my kids love it💜❤️💜❤️
someone else mentioned the cornbread...I eaten cornbread w/ milk...but love cornbread w/ honey and bacon pieces...my newest favorite!
Very interesting. My father and mother grew up during the depression. I heard of coffee soup, but never saw it. Cheap eats. Easy, how great is that. I will have to try your depression recipes. Thanks fir sharing! God bless you, God bless America.
I was just watching Claira"s video last night. about the bread with oil and water. She was a wonderful lady.
She was! I loved her videos and her book is an amazing reference
I was waiting for the third one, my mom use to have "Bread Balls" with sugar and milk at night, she didn't toast the bread just tore it up and made little balls with it. Her Dad, my grandpa, was in WWII and the great depression. I never heard of the first two but I think I will try them sometime, good information to know in a pinch! I love this kind of stuff, I think young mothers would benefit learning what to feed their kids in a real bad situation.
+Bush Girl Karen I agree! Thanks Karen :0)
Very interesting, I love learning how people survived, or made do and created something many still enjoy today. Thanks for sharing.
Me too!
Nicely done...good to have your tasters , helping out..
...Coffee and Cream was a luxury item, reserved for the FatCats, back in the 40's.
We had our dandelion and chicory rt coffee and berry leaf and pine needle teas..
Our big meal was always some kind of wild edibles....Stinging nettle , dandelion leaves , Cattail stalks and rhizomes.
Kind of funny , cause you try and buy these items today in the grocery stores, and your paying a pretty penny.
For protein, we loved our chopped pemmican soaked in wild edibles , soup.
+Kanzee That's true! There's a niche market for wild edibles and what is considered "weeds"
My grandfather was a Marine in WW2. He told me they ate spam constantly. He said a buddy of his from Oklahoma opened a package from home one morning and his family had sent him letters, candy and a can of spam. He started running around screaming why did they send me stupid spam !! My grandfather said of all the hell we went through the ole Okie lost it over a can of spam. Lol
I thought my grandfather was the only person who ate stale bread with coffee and cream. I still eat it from time to time eventhough my grandfather has been gone for over 15 years. The knowledge that great generation had was lost except for those small things that were passed down like in your video. I think I will have some stale bread and coffee in the morning before putting on the uniform and heading to work. Thanks for the video. It also brought back many fond memories of my grandparents.
Glad I brought back some good memories. Enjoy your breakfast and your day :0)
Interesting to see USA versions of this sort of thing. My Mum used to do the milk version
(warm with some sugar) and sometimes toasted, sometimes not when I was a kid back in the late 40's and 50's in the UK. I like your videos, very interesting.
Thanks for the new suggestions. We often make french toast with my stale bread. Or bread and butter pudding. Both are well loved in our house.
my late father loved to eat what he called 'broth' - a pudding basin filled to about three quarters with day old, cubed bread and topped with pieces of butter. hot milk was then poured over to cover the bread and it was finished with a liberal sprinkling of ground white pepper. couldn't stand the stuff but my brother would eat it from time to time. my mum didn't like it either but it was her job to make it. all this happened in rural North Dorset in the UK in the 1950s/60s,
+David Rose I think I would like that! I'm going to have to try it. Thanks for posting!
***** hope you like it...
My husband tells of his mother making Cafe Latte for breakfast when they immigrated to Australia after WW2, everyday for breakfast
In Scotland we used to make a lot of food like this. They usually involve milk and butter however, and instead of stale bread people used toasted oatcakes soaked in hot milk. The best I reckon is peasemeal brose, a kind of naturally gluten free breakfast made with roasted yellow pea flour and hot milk or butter and boiling water. I eat that for breakfast most mornings with raisins and honey, it has the texture of peanut butter. Only takes about 30 seconds to make.
Cornbread crumbled up on milk is delicious. Also would basic French toast count?? Old bread dipped in milk and egg mixture then cooked up.
Why not?! 😊
Whitney Sews The BEST French today is made with stale, or "lost" bread. Hence, in NOLA, we never called it French bread. It was "Lost Bread".
It's still eaten a lot here in Europe , just had it a couple of days ago. We cal it lost bread also!
I agree with French toast! Stale bread makes the best French toast.
I have to try the coffee soup! Thank you!
What good children to try foods without making a fuss and very polite too.
So cool! Thanks for the education! Pane Cotto actually sounds pretty good to me! I tend to prefer savory over sweet. Your girls are great sports! They must have a pretty fun mom. ; )
I have to admit, I'm quite open minded and these all seemed disgusting to me, per the description. Thank you so much for sharing! The girls' reaction let me know that, should the zombies come, I could survive on such and not be miserable. Thanks so much for sharing... And thanks to the girls for being the testers! #lovethechannel
Give them a try...you might be surprised. I eat them on a regular basis ;0)
Those are all great ideas !!! Thank you for sharing.
You are welcome :0)
I love your channel! The Homemade Cereal recipe is identical to a recipe that my mother-in-law made for anyone in the family who was ill or an "invalid". My husband and his sister were allowed to have it as a special "treat" too when they returned home from school. Here in the UK Homsteading is not something that I have ever come across. If you are lucky here you have a small garden in which to grow food and if not sometimes you are able to rent an "allotment" of approximately (Ten rods or perches or poles - do you have these "imperial" sizes in the US?) this equates to 250sq metres in metric of land in a communal "garden" to grow food. I too have been concerend by trends of global instability and I find your posts refreshingly full of common sense advice, tips and good ideas for a more secure family life going forward. Thank you x
Hi Ruth and thanks for sharing! I thought you guys had smallholdings over there? Maybe that is another part of Europe? No we don't go by rods/perches/pols but we do have community gardens and of course we can always rent land. It really depends on the location.
My father was a depression kid. I don't know if this came from back then, but every once in a while my father would crush Saltines and pour in milk and eat it like cereal. Great episode. I just found you and have a lot of catching up to do!
My grandfather did and passed to me. We called it coffee pudding 😁☕
In 1960s England, we ate stale bread soaked in hot milk and sprinkled with sugar. It was called pobs.
Forgotten breakfast from the 70’s. I used to eat it from time to time. I completely forgot about it.
That last recipe also works really well with maple syrup!
I love dunking my toast in my coffee. Got that from my Great Grandma-probably a result of this.
I had some cranberry bread that was getting stale so I made French toast with it. So good. Now I could see me eating the toasted cranberry bread with milk, honey and cinnamon.
... Thanks Jamey... ( i like this video the 2nd time around too ; )... a few days ago, we had some some pumpernickel that went stale, so VIOLA... coffee soup it is. I even look on the stale rack @ wally's cuz i love the stuff.. my wife says i'm just a tightass ; ) ( she's called me a lot worse ; ) Yep, Jamey, you cook like i do. So Thanks again Guys & see ya on the next one.
My mom had me try a version similar of the coffee soup when I was a kid; I liked it too :)
When I was growing up back in the 1950's we had hot cocoa made with canned milk and buttered bread toasted in the broiler almost everyday for breakfast during school days. We would dunk our toast in the cocoa. Our breakfasts alternated between that and hot oatmeal with toast. I fed the same to my children. Thanks for sharing.
I love anything with chocolate in it, I bet I would love that. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for posting! We didn't drink coffee(LDS) but my Mother would make flour mush. Flour, milk or 1/2 & 1/2 sugar & a sprinkle of nutmeg. Yum! As kids we loved it. My Grandparents didn't feel the effects of the depression. Ranch was payed for & cattle & sheep were still sold. Wheat & oats still sold well too. BUT---Their daily life consisted of "Use it up & wear it out". I don't ever remember their "wasting".
+Lee Daniels Never heard of flour mush! Thanks for sharing it and your family's story
I live in Ireland and my father used to eat this with tea ... he called it 'goody'
Thats what they call it in the American Appalachia. Not surprising, considering that's where many Irish and Scottish immigrants ended up.
I love to take butter bread or toast and dunk it in my coffee. It's pretty much the same as you are doing with your coffee soup but, I don't need a spoon really. I love watching your channel and hope you continue to make great videos
Parents were both from the depression and they just called it coffee toast in your first item" with their large households,... my father was french, and mother Irish. :-) Thanks for jogging my memory today.
This brought back a nice memorie.
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Here in Ireland as a kid my neighbour used to make a cup of tea, with milk and sugar. Stale bread was then broken up and put into the cup to soak. It would basically be a kind of warm mush. It was delicious. She called it Goody. She was a lady.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing a tea version!
My grandmother loved bread and milk warm or hot, Well done Jamie, love the unicorn jammies, at least she was honest, have a blessed day
+Yankee Liv'n She isn't a coffee fan!
In the Philippines it's literally coffee and a dinner-roll sized bread ( pan de sal ) which you then dunk into the coffee :)
I love that you used your girls as "taste testers"!! All of that looks very tasty & easy! Thanks!!
Let us know if you try any of them!
Growing up, my grandfather hooked me on bread soaked in milk. A very simple but filling meal!
It's pretty simple!
Sweet young ladies. Love the unicorn jacket! Great ideas for leftovers. Ours usually just go to chickens, rabbits, or hogs, but these are great options for when times are tough, and you need to stretch the groceries.
+Janice B Thanks Janice :0)
These are very creative recipes. It's amazing what you can come up with when there is not much food. Growing up I actually ate the last recipe you've shown, except for the bread we ate saltine crackers with milk and honey/sugar.
+Carla Sings Thanks for sharing Carla!
Mona Lisa, Oh yeah? I have to go check that Shoo-fly pie out. I have never heard of it. I'm sure it is delicious. Thank you for the info.
hello,, very good,, i like to learn from the old schoolways,, and this is old school,, thank you,,
You're welcome!
I just took some bread crusts, toasted them and served them to hubby cinnamon toast crunch! I put it in the toaster instead of heating up the whole oven. Mom would save stale bread for bread pudding, crotons, and bread pudding. I guess I've been throwing away too many bread crust that my family doesn't want. lol
My grandfather used to make something similar to the bread and milk dish. It was saltine crackers with milk and a sprinkle of sugar. He had a bowl every night before bed.
Thanks for sharing Heather!
Heather Savage I've had that
thanks for sharing my wife has been talking about bread cereal and coffee soup she puts butter on her bread and the pours coffee over it thanks again
That's a different version I may have to try! Thanks for sharing
We poured milk (made from powdered milk) over torn up bread in a cereal bowl, then sprinkled with sugar. Was better than nothing. Nobody told us we were poor 😜.
Same here....Bread & Milk
I'm from Poland and we also did bread and milk with sugar. I ate it even when we were no longer poor.
this isnt a breakfast recepie but its a similar concept and imo worth sharing. panzanella, its basically a bread salad, good way to use up those old stale end bits of a loaf, absolutely great in the summer. basically its stale bread thats cut or torn up with fresh chopped tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, salt and olive oil, and whatever else you feel like throwing in. its one of those things where theres as many versions out there as there are people who make it.
I love panzanella :0) Actually...you may have just inspired my lunch lol
Stale bread, buttered. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Cover with hot milk.
Mom had sheep during the depression. She called this "bread pudding." We are this a lot growing up. Later on we added raisins. Decadence.
My earliest memory of this breakfast, was when my grandmother made it for me on cold winter mornings. I was six. It was served in a little white bowl. As I recall, it was NOLA "cafe au lait" with far more milk than coffee. But, it was hot, sweet, and the best part was the huge slice of fresh, hot French bread the delivery man dropped off every morning. The slice was slathered in butter. One of my best flavor memories.
To this day when I get an "off" cup of coffee, I might add a tiny dab of butter. Mellows it out, right away!
my granny boone used to eat buttermilk or milk whichever she had and stale cornbread toasted with warm the butter with salt pepper. I still eat it time to time when I think of it.
+Jennifer Russell I bet the cornbread is delicious
Jennifer Russell oooh try it sweet with brown sugar or honey AMAZING
Yes but I have sweet cornbread I'm not really a fan of plain cornbread.
We used biscuits for the first recipe and either the biscuits or the finished product was called brookums. Delicious! Will have to try the other two.
We had “milk toast” a lot, toast, butter and cube the bread. The pour warm milk over. I love it.
My mom grew up eating milk toast, toasted bread torn up in warm milk, when she didn't feel well. I never really liked it but for a treat I did like warm milk with torn bread not toast and sugar. Oh I bet your turmeric milk would be good with bread in it :) Now I'm hungry :) My dad grew up with the coffee soup called "soakie" also had scrapple which was cornmeal cooked in water with seasonings and shredded scraps of meat till thick then placed in a loaf pan to cool slice flour and fry, kind of like fried polenta with bits of meat in it. My mom said that his mom made the best scrapple. My dad only made it once and I thought it was really good, mine not so much. I guess the quality of the cooks deteriorates with each generation :) Thanks for bringing back some yummy memories :)
Diane C. - when I was a kid (56 now), I remember my dad eating torn up bread & milk - it was really good, I loved it but haven't had it for years. His dad came from Camporeale, Sicily. Fond memories -- I might try it again tomorrow! 😉
I work with people who still eat coffee soup. I never acquired a taste for it and I am a Java Junkie. I grew up in a household where corn meal mush was served for breakfast and if we had any left over it would go into a loaf pan to cool. My mom would either fry it up for dinner that night or for breakfast the following day. Good Stuff 👍
+Brenda Brosius That reminds me of polenta :0)
Brenda Brosius YES had that as a kid and sweet too my hubby loves grits i discovered mixing cornmeal and grits and adding powdered milk adds a taste and texture thats FABULOUS i cant do alot of fat and the powdered milk lessens the need for butter and adds creaminess negating the use of a cream or half n half. He likes his with bacon shredded cheddar r and black pepper i still love brown sugar and/or honey 💜
Thanks for reminding me about fried mush. I love it with just butter, or adding syrup, molasses or honey. I haven't had it for a long time. ---Brenda
Thanks for the ideas. I think we'll try the cereal first. I don't know why I've never thought of doing this with stale bread!
It was the least impressive of the three, but still good!
Keeping with the stale bread part of the theme, you could do a simple bread pudding with raisins and cinnamon as the sweet and spice flavors. That's obviously not a poverty meal but its a cheaper desert/breakfast that works well with basic staple ingredients you always have on hand and stale bread. Easy to make too!
Absolutely! We love bread pudding. We also make one out of jam that I may do in a future video ;0)
The cereal with cinnamon and sugar sounds good!
Homemade bread toasted with warm milk, butter and salt and pepper was kind of a treat or when we were sick....Loved it, thanks for the video
That sounds good Ginger!
We grew up eating french toast hamburger..our mother could make a small amount of hamburger feed five of us..you mix hamburger with sauteed onion, salt and pepper,a little bit of milk to make the mixture spreadable, make a sandwich,dip it in egg and cook it like french toast..the hamburger mixture is spread quite thin so it will cook thru. I made that a couple of weeks ago while taking a trip down memory lane.
I love French toast. My mom made it for us and I've loved it ever since. We simply use maple syrup or eat it as is.