I was talking to my grandma and great grandma, they both told me of some of the things they are back then. Some nights if they had nothing, dinner would be raw potatoes! Sometimes it was cooked macaroni in heated milk, an onion sandwich, or maybe sliced tomatoes and crackers. Anything they could scrape together, they made do with it!
My grandfather used to tell us about growing up outside of Cleveland during the Depression. His dad had died when my grandfather was young, and his mom had a black thumb. So he and his older sisters learned to garden in their small yard, and they kept chickens so they often had eggs. He used to keep pickled eggs in his fridge, and he often added purple onions to the vinegar mix, which turned the eggs purple. We lived very close to them growing up, and as kids we would ask for purple eggs as a snack. My grandmother was born in the middle of the Depression and grew up on her grandparents' farm in CO, so she learned how to garden and save everything from birth. I loved spending time with them, and I learned how to cook and stretch a budget from watching them. They were homesteaders before homesteading was a thing, and they often traded services or goods with their neighbors. They also visited the scrap yard for parts to fix their equipment or vehicles to save them. I've always felt so fortunate to have grown up with them and to have learned so many skills from them!
Now that looked very fancy for Depression food. When I was a child during the 2nd World War, my Mom continued making her favorites from the thirties (D-era). We had this dish often, but she made it without the bologna, cheese, or canned meat. We used chili BEANS (no meat in it), sometimes even without the bacon. She substituted some salt pork or a hunk of bacon rind. In those days bacon came with the rind on it. They removed the rind before frying the bacon. It was what was used for flavoring. (Oh, I'm 86. born in 1937)
I'm 93, born in 1929, and I grew up during the Great Depression and WWII. I find that today's Great Depression cookbooks are so unrealistic. People who didn't experience those years can never truly understand how hard those times were.
My mom was born in 1929 and also grew up during the Depression. My mom lived with me and one day I "surprised" her by making her homemade macaroni and cheese and when she saw it she screamed at me to take it away from her. I thought she was kidding, but she later explained (after I'd taken it away) that all her mother made during the Depression was elbow macaroni with a little something added in, and she ate so much elbow macaroni growing up, she never wanted to see it again!
When replicating her Depression-era recipes, Clara would chop vegetables without a cutting board and she told us they were too poor to have one! I was at the antique store yesterday and saw a 1930s era cutting board for sale it was about 12" round, but the cutting area was only about 8" round. So small compared to today's charcuterie boards!
I'm going to go a step further, if your family hates beans, and I mean the kids, don't cook it. If your family hates your cooking, that's on you. You're kids hate broccoli? Don't serve it, have green beans or something else instead. They hate tomatoes? Cucumbers are good. Point being, if you know they hate it, why pick a fight over it.
I grew up with my great-grandparents on both sides of my family. The great-grandmothers used to tell stories about the great depression and how they got what they needed. For instance, my great-grandma Sarita was an amazing seamstress. She could recreate clothing by sight. She sewed for the wives of the railroad workers and they wouldn't pay her in money, they'd pay her in the extra fabric. So my grandma was always dressed to the nines even though everyone was poor! She also let a neighbor keep their cow in her yard (they had a huge plot of land) in trade for milk so my grandma always had something to eat. For about 5 years after she walked on, the garlic and spring onions in her garden still came up.
My mom lived through Hitlers invasion of Austria and then WWII. Her town was the most bombed town in Austria and she was hungry more times than she wasn’t. She married my dad who was a US soldier. She used to make us simple meals and never wasted anything. She used every part of the deer and fish my dad brought home. I’m so thankful to have had her teach me how to be frugal and yet cook delicious meals.
So sorry your mom experienced such horror during ww2. I cannot believe in thiscountry todayand worldwide tge antisentamism going on. I lived in Germany with my soldier husband on the German economy 1n 1970-72. Sometimes a German would mention how Sick and Crazy Hitler was and how ashamed they were of thattime I n history. Today,I am ashamed of things going o. I. Our countryand world today. Why cant people live and let live. So many wars and conflicts in the name of the one true God. Sad.
I remember my great Aunt Ruth telling me how they made pea “sausage” by adding ground sage & flour to left over black eyed peas. They formed them into patties & fried them.
My dad was born in a dyg out in 1904...they sAved string...tin foil ink anything they found useable...they wrapped stuff in brown paper when you bought stuff...packed food in anything you could find....my dad was a circuit preacher and traveled to different church's every Sunday....different denominations often met together in school houses.... pickles and crackers came in barrels or really large jars....
My mom was a wartime bride (WW2) whose parents lived through the great depression. As a girl growling up my moms motto was: Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, Or do without. Im 71 now and thoroughly enjoy your channel. Hugs to you and your family.
We're about being frugal, right? Well, every time you sharpen your knives, you are scraping steel off of them. If you flip your knife over and scrape your cutting board with the tang side of the knife, you will not have to sharpen them as often and believe it or not, it saves your cutting board as well. I learned this from a Micheline chef, and it has served me well for years. Hope this helps - even a tiny bit. The casserole looks amazing and I would - just personal choice - think a pan of cornbread would set this into another dimension of delicious. Thank you.
Brooke I just have to tell you my autistic son ate bar s bologna everyday until he was 7 he was very picky and only ate cubes of bologna, cheese, apples and green beans out of the can my littles all started eating the same meal everyday they all ate it they were all picky funny thing when we moved to tennessee from California we stayed in Oklahoma they have a bar s factory and they had tours. Anyways thats my story about bar s my kids are all alive and eat everything and will still eat bar s if bought. Thank you for all you do and have a happy 4th!
I so agree about people being so picky. I get so frustrated with people who complain about limited funds but won’t eat generic brands or beans or anything that isn’t their favorite and won’t eat leftovers. It’s hard to help them or have patience with them. Looking forward to these recipes. I love finding depression era recipes and from WW 2 with rationing.
Agree. However, if you are going through a rough patch you can't expect your kids to suddenly like beans when they have never eaten them before other than in chili.
I eat most anything. I come from depression era parents whose families wasted NOTHING. I also come from a large family where we ate what was put before us went hungry. I never went hungry. I taught my children that lesson also. And they have taught their children that valuable lesson. Waste not, want not.
@@breezybre2670 you’re right. That’s why parents need to give a good example by not being picky themselves and introducing foods to their children before it’s a a have-to and a shock. Even getting used to fast food occasionally. I’m not crazy about fast food junk food but in some situations that might be all that’s available and if I never eat it, it will make me very sick.
I remember as a child going to the store with my mom and buying footlong chunks of bologna because it was a cheep protein, and her bringing it home and grounding it up... throwing in onions and pickles and mayo and I'm not sure what else unfortunately over the years the recipe was lost but it would end up being like a sandwich spread, kind of like a tuna fish sandwich or chicken sandwich spread... it was really good as a kid..
My Mom said that one day during the Great Depression they only had one can of beans in the cupboard. He brother was go ne😢all day looking for work to earn enough to buy what ever he could for them to prepare to eat. ( there was 6 of them) They lived in the big city of Chicago. They were great full for what ever they could get. No land for a garden.Lots of prayers🙏 God provided
Love hot dogs and bologna. Mac and cheese was a weeknight supper when my three kiddos were little. We ate vegetarian at least a few nights a week. Soup beans and cornbread with greens. Fried potatoes and scrambled eggs for supper. Tomato and mayo sandwich. Biscuits and gravy. Cheap meals.
I love this series! People are so spoiled now. I grew up in the 50's and trust me, we could not afford organic everything, watch the plastic, you can''t eat this and that. We ate what my mother put on our plates grateful we could eat. Thank you, Brooke.
I don't even remember thinking oh, ick I don't like this as a child. I grew up in the 80s on a dairy farm and we had to make everything stretch. We canned all our vegetables from the garden and grew all our own meat. I don't even really remember doing grocery shopping in the store really. Oh and we had all that delicious raw milk. We were the only dairy farm in the area with Jersey and Guernsey cows along with our Holsteins. We were a triple A dairy with Dairy Gold.
My dad grew up very poor in depression era in Missouri..they ate mostly onion, radish or tomato sandwiches ( he never mentioned hotdogs to me)and lots of potatoes, beans and cabbage . ..anything that came from their garden. I know he said fried bologna was a treat. We are so spoiled now with abundance of food choices if we can afford them.
My grandparents were born and raised in large families in (very rural) WV during the Depression. Their usual meal was pinto beans and cornbread. In the summer, they had tomato sandwiches and if they were lucky, corn on the cob. Cabbage rolls for dinner were a treat. Meat was usually reserved for Sunday dinner.
I made the Clara’s great depression poorman’s meal (video on youtube) the other day for my family: diced onion, diced potatoes, ground beef (she used hotdog) with squirt of tomato sauce and my kids and family ATE IT ALL UP NO LEFTOVERS
Brooke, I noticed that when you scrape food off of your cutting board that you are using the sharp side of the blade which can dull it so use the other side of the blade to scrape food from your cutting board.
And you save that bacon grease! My mom's mom (grandma) and my mom had a can you put bacon grease in to use later. They would use it to fry eggs, fry potatoes, and for the greasing the pan you cook pancakes in. I did see someone once said because dairy was limited they also used bacon grease lightly on their toast.
My grandmother married right at the beginning and she wasted nothing and taught me so many simple things about cooking - I pass them on to my grandbabies now
Bar S hot dogs and bologna are both my favorite!!!! Love this series, but then again i love all of your videos!!! My Mama was raised during that time and i heard her say a million times that as kids they knew nothing about the great depression because everybody in this area was poor as dirt and always raised their own food. My grandfather worked for the railroad, made a whopping $15 a month!!!! Raised 18 kids!!!!
Brooke I just saw that Tennessee residents can get their SNAP/ Food stamps replaced due to power outages and food spoilage. There is an online form to fill out that has to be done within 10 days of the June power outage. It will only cover the food bought & spoiled. Thought because you are in Tennessee and others might benefit from this information. - Kimberly
My mom was born in 1935. She always reused things like aluminum foil and ziplock bags,etc. We ate squirrels, rabbits,frogs legs,ffish. We grew a huge garden, canned and froze our own food. Raised chickens, pigs, turkeys,etc. I learned so much from her .
I think you and you family are amazing! You try to come through like an ordinary housewife. There is nothing ordinary about you. I think you are extremely smart, maybe genius. Thanks for sharing.
Hot dogs and baloney (speaking of picky)are 2 things I have detested my whole life. And there were was a balony-american cheese- mayo on cheap wheat bread sandwich in my lunch sack every stinkin day. We had to stay with our grandmother for a couple of days while my mother had surgery. She tried to feed us scrambled eggs with hot dogs. We just sat there and looked at it. Eggs were a treat for us, but nope on the hot dogs. She and my mother both made what I now know is depression potato soup, I still love that. And oatmeal cake. Grandma was otherwise a very good cook.
Hi Brooke , Dusty and boys My grandma , use to make a from scratch plain cake from all purpose flour and she took cocoa powder, water , butter , sugar , a pinch of salt and cook it in an iron skillet while the cake was cooking she would stand and stir it with a wooden spoon constantly while it cooked to kind on med heat till it started bubbling she turn the heat down to low till her mixture turned in to like a thin syrup as soon as she took the cake out of the oven that was also baked in a iron skillet she would flip her cake out the cake was kind of firm when done she would poke holes all in that cake on top and she would start spooning the chocolate syrup mixture on the cake and as soon as she was done she would cut us a piece while it was still hot with a glass of cold milk . It was a homemade cake from the depression era she lived through it was a special treat . Sending lots and lots of hugs , love , blessings and countless prayers 🙏❤️
My granny was a teenager during this time. She was raised on a farm, she was lucky. They bartered for the things they needed. She told me she went to school with a lot of kids that were hungry so she would “trade” her meat sandwich with others kids. She knew she would be fed when she got home but knew her classmates were not that lucky. I’ll take a fried bologna sandwich any day, on white bread with mayo/mustard and lettuce!😊
Get your beef for the SOS in the refrigerated section in the lunchmeats section by Buddig. Really cheap. .i fry my meat in oil then add the flour and milk. Been eating it for over 50 years. Love it
My parents grew up during the Great Depression and talked about how hard their parents struggled to keep their families fed. When I was growing up, one thing we did NOT do in our house was waste food! I didn’t allow my girls to waste food either because I was a single mother and couldn’t afford to have food waste. I let them has all they wanted to eat, but they knew if they put it on their plate they were expected to eat it. The people that grew up in that era are slowly fading away due to their age, but I hope the struggles they faced & lessons they taught their children about survival during hard times will never be forgotten. I’m sorry for getting sappy today. My Daddy passed away 20 years ago today and I’m more emotional & sentimental than usual. 😊 Thank for sharing this recipe & video, Brooke. You are amazing!
I am so thrilled you are doing this series. The depression era cooking fascinates me as well. My maternal grandmother was from Alabama and she could make a feast out of cobwebs and dirt and it was the best tasting meal you ever ate.
My mom was the same way, we could say there's nothing to eat, but she would always come up with something delicious! And she could always make a cake or cookies somehow too! ❤
I love reading about the great depression and pioneering too Brooke and i love to read Laura Ingalls Wilder books about their life as pioneers as well as the show. Fascinating!!!!❤❤❤
My mother actually made this casserole for our family when I was a little girl in the 1960s. We were very poor at this time. We loved it! She also made other great depression dishes as she grew up in those days😊
Many picky Americans are learning or going to learn a hard lesson as food prices get higher and agriculture products decline because of the side effects all the heavy smoke is causing. Thank you for sharing all your info.
Brooke, that looks so good! I'd stretch it even further and put it over cooked rice. I'll bet it would be good over mashed or fried potatoes, or even over spaghetti or noodles!
This week, I chose a few budget friendly menus for Independence Day and beyond. First of all the roasted chicken, then chicken noodle soup is made with chicken bone broth. That gives me at least 8 to 10 servings or lunches all week. Monday and Tuesday Dinners are beef hot dogs on buns, cole slaw, and potato salad. And then, Tuesday I will also serve corn on cob and banana pudding cake. What ever is left over will suffice as long as it lasts. Eggs sandwiches are on the menu later in the week along with carrot and celery sticks. Frozen beans could also be served later towards the end of the week, along with leftover frozen meatloaf warmed up. By then, we won't be very hungry; therefore, baked potatoes smothered with spinach might hit the spot. The point is to use up what you have, starting with refrigerator and freezer food, also include pantry items.🎉
@@cherylcook1942 : Thanks for noticing my mistake. I made the correction before anybody else said anything. Sometimes, my mind pays tricks on me, especially as I'm getting up in age.
I don’t think people realize just how vulnerable we in the US really are right now. I love your channel and how realistic you are when it comes to food insecurity. I know what it was like to have to snuggle up to my brother to keep warm when the rain was dripping on my head because my father couldn’t fix the roof of our home, but he and my mom never let us go hungry. Fried bologna sandwiches was sometimes all we had before his pay day, and it’s still one of my favorite comfort foods today, smothered in mustard😂 Keep keeping it real Brooke!
I only buy Bar S. I love their smoked sausage. So good. When you started frying up the onion, pepper, and bologna I thought it would be amazing with a box of mac n cheese stirred in and just have fried bologna mac n cheese. I'm going to try both the casserole and with the mac n cheese soon. Thank you for this recipe! You always have such good ideas. 💖💕
I'm so excited for this series! I love reading about the Great Depression and how inventive and resilient people were then. Can't wait to try this recipe!
Granny always said water gravy and pone bread. Chop suey which was spaghetti noodles cooked with onion and tomato with a little bit of burger. Or if no spaghetti noodles macaroni. Dumplins with no meat they used tomatoes . I could tell you all kinds of stuff granny would tell us . And grandma and papaw
LOVE Bar S hot dogs and bologna...especially hot dogs on the grill. When I was young (I'm 71) we ate whatever was put in front of us or we starved. We had beans, beans and more beans and rice...and potatoes. My mama could make a tasty meal out of almost anything.
When my grandmother died back in the 80's we found bags of crayon peices and chalk. She was a school teacher and she probably saved them for us kids! Bags of twist ties and rubber bands soap pieces and can foods out the ying yang! She did not throw anything away and it was because of the depression.
WE are so so so spoiled. Even when supply chain issues were happening we still had access to food; maybe not all the things we wanted but there was something to feed our bellies. And now more than ever we need to be thankful for all the things we have including beans and bologna! I grew up on it all so it is all good for me!
My and my husbands parents gre up in the depression. They've shared a lot of history with us o er the years. Even my husband talks about they went to town once a week wheb they were kids and they may get a candy bar. After they would lick the paper. Now a days we think we need one evey day. Weve went through hard times since weve been married.
My grandmother taught me a lot since she survived the great depression. I still live according to grandma's way! Well except going to pond and catching bullfrogs for frog legs
My Nanny grew up on a farm with 9 siblings, they had to make a meal stretch! She learned how to cook from her mom during this time and passed along those recipes to me. I am actually making her "Poor Man Steak" recipe tonight for my husband who never had "struggle meals" before we met. I love this series and cant wait to learn more meals from this time! Keep rocking it out Brooke!
@@Purple0fairy0bunny absolutely! It makes a lot so feed a crowd! 3lbs ground beef 1 cup milk 1 cup bread or bread crumbs 1/2 onion chopped 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 can water 1. Mix meat, bread, milk and onion together and refrigerate for minimum of 3 hour overnight is preferred. 2. Make patties out of meat mixture and flour them 3. Pan fry both sides for 2 mins each til golden brown 4. Place in dish and cover with soup and water mixture 5. Cook in oven at 350 for 1 hour I serve this over mashed potatoes and with green beans. This should feed about 6-8 really hungry people! It goes far!
Great new series. I think you should do meals from the decades. Be blessed. I love the cheap hotdogs. I grew up eating bologna sandwiches every friday night. We even had bologna gravy.
One of my favorite meals that my Mammy (great depression survivor) used to make was a baked bologna. I didn't like bologna as a kid but she baked it with orange juice and cinnamon and sugar on it and it was SO good. I dont make it often because of the sodium level, but every once in a while I just get a huge craving for it. She also used to fry up bologna slices as the meat for a meal, and did the same with spam. I just love that and the pioneer eras myself. I spent many hours at camp talking to her and having her tell me stories. I still love reading about it! Great series idea! ❤ It!
I also love reading about wagon train pioneering life and depression era. People helping people sharing what little they had. And many extended family members living together because they couldn't afford a place of their own. I would love to see you make depression era menus every month. People need to learn how to get by on less. Thanks for being a great teacher. Blessings ❤
A couple weeks back I asked my son if he would make us some fried bologna sandwiches for lunch. I guess I had never made them as he grew up, as he had no idea what I was talking about. He must of liked it though. He repeated the lunch for himself the next day. I think fried bologna is an underused option with breakfast foods.
Your kids are some of the kindest I've seen in videos. You clearly are doing an amazing job. Love all your recipe ideas and think you Come up with so many things I wouldn't think to put together ❤❤❤
I LOVE THIS! My dad was born the yr before stock crash and mom in 33. They both remembered raising gardens, chickens, and pigs for food. Both their dads were lucky to have jobs in timber when not farming. They were lucky never went hungry. Peas, Beans, Biscuits, Cornbread and eggs with some kind of meat (sometimes fried bologna ) and gravy for breakfast. Doing the garden but after watching butchering of pig I’m going to have to be hungry. Lol! Keep up the awesome work.
When your faced with starvation, anything should be great to eat. Rite!! Most of us now days are very picky and thats ashame because were headed straight back into geeat depression. Has anyone else noticed how time just rolls around in a huge circle?? Brooke one of the greatest things you can do is continue this series for us because for me personally, I am all about learning how to survive from here on out until Jesus comes back for us. It aint gonna be easy. Thank you sweetie. Love yall. God bless❤
Looks like baked beans to me too! I love reading books from the 1800s. I am blessed to never as of yet gone without the foods I needed and wanted Lord willing and there is nothing wrong with bologna & hot dogs. People need to be more gracious. Happy 4th, Brooke & Co. and be blessed always! xoxo
We used to take bologna and grind it up. Add boiled eggs, relish and onion for a bologna salad sandwich. Yummy. My husband doesn't like bologna so haven't made it in ages. Remember the commercial where they spelled out b-o-l-o-n-g-a.
my grandmother used to make her own baked beans.They had a baker down the street who closed on Sundays because of the blue laws.Since he could not shut the oven downs over night you could bring your full bean pot to him on Saturday night and pick your cooked beans up on Sunday on your way home from church.
My husband loves baloney. But it is 4.99 a pound! So I don't buy it unless it is on sale. Walmart sometimes has the Bar S brands on sale, and we love their polish sausages. Will have to try the baloney. My grandmother raised 6 children during depression years, and we have heard many stories of the pot of beans spilling and all the kids on their hands and knees picking them up because that was all they had to eat. Cooking turtle, squirrel, rabbits, deer, beaver, bear, whatever meat they could find or catch. My Nana was a great cook! She had worked over the Victory Garden and planned food for the food lines, and everything she cooked was so wonderful!
Looking forward to this new series! I do believe things are coming full circle & this nation will go through another depression-type era. A majority of our population will be 100% unprepared 😣
I have always loved to cook and learn new recipes. I've learned a few things from you. I enjoy your channel! There is a channel with a lady named Clara she's passed now but she spoke about her life during the great depression and shoes recipes ❤
I was thinking that you could bulk it out more by serving it with a side of rice, potatoes or bread on the side. When I was a child my parents struggled financially and I came up with a breakfast scramble we would call it these days using what we had and it included bologna or as we in Australia call it Devon. It was a mix of chopped Devon, tomato, onion, bread and them you mix up eggs and milk. Stir everything together and fry it. It was kind of like a chopped savoury French toast. Then you put ketchup on top. It was yummmm. As I grew up we didn’t eat the Devon anymore we moved up to square ham and then later real ham lol. But I still crave that breakfast scramble sometimes 😊
I can see this even without the chili. It's very reminiscent of beenies and weenies and who doesn't love that? Save the chili and cheese for a whole second meal over rice or potatoes. 😉
During the Great Depression my parents grew up in the depression area they wouldn't have used all the onions they wouldn't have used all the pepper and they wouldn't have used a whole pack of Bologna and the men got fed before anybody else
I just love your channel so much Brooke. Not only is it educational and useful, but it’s comforting to me for some reason! You’re awesome and I’m so grateful for the work you put in to your videos!!❤
I’m really excited about this series you’re doing on Great Depression food’s!! What a great way to teach people how HARD TIMES really were. Who knows, we could be headed there again! 💕🙏🙏
I also love reading about the great depression. My parents lived during that time (this let's you know I'm not a spring chicken 😊) It's amazing how many of your old recipes are what my mom who's 91 and I still cook (like Spam!). Love your channel, young lady!
My grandma and her parents survived on kidney beans for a year basically! She would not eat them again!! She was young and lived in horse and buggies. Had Belgians to work the farm! I loved her stories!! Miss her so much!!
Brooke is one of my favorite TH-camrs. Thank you so much, Brooke for sharing your time and your delightful family with us. This series is a great idea, I am definitely here for it.
I love how creative people were then. My dad was born in 1943 and his parents were fairly poor for his childhood as they were raising 5 kids and my grandpa went back to school with his GI benefit to become a teacher. My dad still loves fried balogna! Some ketchup gets added since we’re so rich these days 😂 You can’t get the man to touch cauliflower though. They grew so much of it and he said he’s had his lifetime fill of it.
This looked so good to me. My folks were factory workers when I was growing up and we had fried boloney at least once a week. With fried potatoes or beans or eggs. I never “felt” we were poor.
My mom and her brother were children during the depression. Mom would often say nothing was wasted. So excited to see more on this series. Your meal looked good even though I do not like baloni. I think I could eat it that way. Happy 4 th to you and the family.
I was talking to my grandma and great grandma, they both told me of some of the things they are back then. Some nights if they had nothing, dinner would be raw potatoes! Sometimes it was cooked macaroni in heated milk, an onion sandwich, or maybe sliced tomatoes and crackers. Anything they could scrape together, they made do with it!
My grandfather used to tell us about growing up outside of Cleveland during the Depression. His dad had died when my grandfather was young, and his mom had a black thumb. So he and his older sisters learned to garden in their small yard, and they kept chickens so they often had eggs. He used to keep pickled eggs in his fridge, and he often added purple onions to the vinegar mix, which turned the eggs purple. We lived very close to them growing up, and as kids we would ask for purple eggs as a snack. My grandmother was born in the middle of the Depression and grew up on her grandparents' farm in CO, so she learned how to garden and save everything from birth. I loved spending time with them, and I learned how to cook and stretch a budget from watching them. They were homesteaders before homesteading was a thing, and they often traded services or goods with their neighbors. They also visited the scrap yard for parts to fix their equipment or vehicles to save them. I've always felt so fortunate to have grown up with them and to have learned so many skills from them!
I love Clara on TH-cam. She has passed away now but her channel is Great Depression cooking. She was such a lovely lady!❤️
She also has a book with some recipes & stories!
I remember Clara explaining that she and her siblings didn’t attend high school because they couldn’t afford socks, which were required. 😢
I really enjoyed watching her channel. Such a sweet lady.
I loved her too!!
@@Mileys_mommywhere can you get the book?
Now that looked very fancy for Depression food. When I was a child during the 2nd World War, my Mom continued making her favorites from the thirties (D-era). We had this dish often, but she made it without the bologna, cheese, or canned meat. We used chili BEANS (no meat in it), sometimes even without the bacon. She substituted some salt pork or a hunk of bacon rind. In those days bacon came with the rind on it. They removed the rind before frying the bacon. It was what was used for flavoring. (Oh, I'm 86. born in 1937)
I'm 93, born in 1929, and I grew up during the Great Depression and WWII. I find that today's Great Depression cookbooks are so unrealistic. People who didn't experience those years can never truly understand how hard those times were.
It is an honor to see feedback from people who lived during the great depression. You made do and survived because you had to.
My mom was born in 1929 and also grew up during the Depression. My mom lived with me and one day I "surprised" her by making her homemade macaroni and cheese and when she saw it she screamed at me to take it away from her. I thought she was kidding, but she later explained (after I'd taken it away) that all her mother made during the Depression was elbow macaroni with a little something added in, and she ate so much elbow macaroni growing up, she never wanted to see it again!
@@sz1768 I sure get that! Me too!
When replicating her Depression-era recipes, Clara would chop vegetables without a cutting board and she told us they were too poor to have one! I was at the antique store yesterday and saw a 1930s era cutting board for sale it was about 12" round, but the cutting area was only about 8" round. So small compared to today's charcuterie boards!
My parents grew up in this time, growing up you didn't waste anything. We need to start living more like then.
And you ate what you were given or you didn’t eat! Our mothers were NOT short order cooks that catered to everyone
I'm going to go a step further, if your family hates beans, and I mean the kids, don't cook it. If your family hates your cooking, that's on you. You're kids hate broccoli? Don't serve it, have green beans or something else instead. They hate tomatoes? Cucumbers are good. Point being, if you know they hate it, why pick a fight over it.
My parents too, waste not want not👍🏻
@@cherylcook1942 Agree 👍🏻
I grew up with my great-grandparents on both sides of my family. The great-grandmothers used to tell stories about the great depression and how they got what they needed. For instance, my great-grandma Sarita was an amazing seamstress. She could recreate clothing by sight. She sewed for the wives of the railroad workers and they wouldn't pay her in money, they'd pay her in the extra fabric. So my grandma was always dressed to the nines even though everyone was poor! She also let a neighbor keep their cow in her yard (they had a huge plot of land) in trade for milk so my grandma always had something to eat. For about 5 years after she walked on, the garlic and spring onions in her garden still came up.
My mom lived through Hitlers invasion of Austria and then WWII. Her town was the most bombed town in Austria and she was hungry more times than she wasn’t. She married my dad who was a US soldier. She used to make us simple meals and never wasted anything. She used every part of the deer and fish my dad brought home. I’m so thankful to have had her teach me how to be frugal and yet cook delicious meals.
So sorry your mom experienced such horror during ww2. I cannot believe in thiscountry todayand worldwide tge antisentamism going on. I lived in Germany with my soldier husband on the German economy 1n 1970-72. Sometimes a German would mention how Sick and Crazy Hitler was and how ashamed they were of thattime I n history. Today,I am ashamed of things going o. I. Our countryand world today. Why cant people live and let live. So many wars and conflicts in the name of the one true God. Sad.
I remember my great Aunt Ruth telling me how they made pea “sausage” by adding ground sage & flour to left over black eyed peas. They formed them into patties & fried them.
Your Aunt was ahead of the times! Some of the “meatless” meats are made from peas or soybeans!
My dad was born in a dyg out in 1904...they sAved string...tin foil ink anything they found useable...they wrapped stuff in brown paper when you bought stuff...packed food in anything you could find....my dad was a circuit preacher and traveled to different church's every Sunday....different denominations often met together in school houses.... pickles and crackers came in barrels or really large jars....
My mom was a wartime bride (WW2) whose parents lived through the great depression. As a girl growling up my moms motto was: Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, Or do without. Im 71 now and thoroughly enjoy your channel. Hugs to you and your family.
We're about being frugal, right? Well, every time you sharpen your knives, you are scraping steel off of them. If you flip your knife over and scrape your cutting board with the tang side of the knife, you will not have to sharpen them as often and believe it or not, it saves your cutting board as well. I learned this from a Micheline chef, and it has served me well for years. Hope this helps - even a tiny bit. The casserole looks amazing and I would - just personal choice - think a pan of cornbread would set this into another dimension of delicious. Thank you.
Brooke I just have to tell you my autistic son ate bar s bologna everyday until he was 7 he was very picky and only ate cubes of bologna, cheese, apples and green beans out of the can my littles all started eating the same meal everyday they all ate it they were all picky funny thing when we moved to tennessee from California we stayed in Oklahoma they have a bar s factory and they had tours. Anyways thats my story about bar s my kids are all alive and eat everything and will still eat bar s if bought. Thank you for all you do and have a happy 4th!
I so agree about people being so picky. I get so frustrated with people who complain about limited funds but won’t eat generic brands or beans or anything that isn’t their favorite and won’t eat leftovers. It’s hard to help them or have patience with them. Looking forward to these recipes. I love finding depression era recipes and from WW 2 with rationing.
Agree. However, if you are going through a rough patch you can't expect your kids to suddenly like beans when they have never eaten them before other than in chili.
I eat most anything. I come from depression era parents whose families wasted NOTHING. I also come from a large family where we ate what was put before us went hungry. I never went hungry. I taught my children that lesson also. And they have taught their children that valuable lesson. Waste not, want not.
I agree!
@@breezybre2670It’s better to get them used to them now.
@@breezybre2670 you’re right. That’s why parents need to give a good example by not being picky themselves and introducing foods to their children before it’s a a have-to and a shock. Even getting used to fast food occasionally. I’m not crazy about fast food junk food but in some situations that might be all that’s available and if I never eat it, it will make me very sick.
I remember as a child going to the store with my mom and buying footlong chunks of bologna because it was a cheep protein, and her bringing it home and grounding it up... throwing in onions and pickles and mayo and I'm not sure what else unfortunately over the years the recipe was lost but it would end up being like a sandwich spread, kind of like a tuna fish sandwich or chicken sandwich spread... it was really good as a kid..
My Mom said that one day during the Great Depression they only had one can of beans in the cupboard.
He brother was go ne😢all day looking for work to earn enough to buy what ever he could for them to prepare to eat. ( there was 6 of them)
They lived in the big
city of Chicago.
They were great full for what ever they could get.
No land for a garden.Lots of prayers🙏 God provided
Love hot dogs and bologna. Mac and cheese was a weeknight supper when my three kiddos were little. We ate vegetarian at least a few nights a week. Soup beans and cornbread with greens. Fried potatoes and scrambled eggs for supper. Tomato and mayo sandwich. Biscuits and gravy. Cheap meals.
I really appreciated your tone of voice throughout this video! Thanks for an interesting recipe!
Yes, I agree!!
I love this series! People are so spoiled now. I grew up in the 50's and trust me, we could not afford organic everything, watch the plastic, you can''t eat this and that. We ate what my mother put on our plates grateful we could eat. Thank you, Brooke.
Most everything was already organic.
I don't even remember thinking oh, ick I don't like this as a child. I grew up in the 80s on a dairy farm and we had to make everything stretch. We canned all our vegetables from the garden and grew all our own meat. I don't even really remember doing grocery shopping in the store really. Oh and we had all that delicious raw milk. We were the only dairy farm in the area with Jersey and Guernsey cows along with our Holsteins. We were a triple A dairy with Dairy Gold.
My dad grew up very poor in depression era in Missouri..they ate mostly onion, radish or tomato sandwiches ( he never mentioned hotdogs to me)and lots of potatoes, beans and cabbage . ..anything that came from their garden. I know he said fried bologna was a treat. We are so spoiled now with abundance of food choices if we can afford them.
My grandparents were born and raised in large families in (very rural) WV during the Depression. Their usual meal was pinto beans and cornbread. In the summer, they had tomato sandwiches and if they were lucky, corn on the cob. Cabbage rolls for dinner were a treat. Meat was usually reserved for Sunday dinner.
What part of WVwere they from .my grand parents were from there to.
Sounds delicious tbh x
Tomato sandwiches are amazing! 😋
That's where "Chicken every Sunday" came from but sometimes just for big holidays. Beans cooked all day on Sunday for after church.
Cheap is great, especially if you are on a budget.
I made the Clara’s great depression poorman’s meal (video on youtube) the other day for my family: diced onion, diced potatoes, ground beef (she used hotdog) with squirt of tomato sauce and my kids and family ATE IT ALL UP NO LEFTOVERS
Looks delish. Getting a good char on the veggies and baloney was a boss move.
Brooke, I noticed that when you scrape food off of your cutting board that you are using the sharp side of the blade which can dull it so use the other side of the blade to scrape food from your cutting board.
Oh my goodness...that's a good idea...I do the same as Brooke and never thought to flip it...thanks...simple enough!
And you save that bacon grease!
My mom's mom (grandma) and my mom had a can you put bacon grease in to use later. They would use it to fry eggs, fry potatoes, and for the greasing the pan you cook pancakes in.
I did see someone once said because dairy was limited they also used bacon grease lightly on their toast.
My grandmother married right at the beginning and she wasted nothing and taught me so many simple things about cooking - I pass them on to my grandbabies now
i grew up eating bologna, pork n beans, and the such...looks FANTASTIC TO ME!!!
Bar S hot dogs and bologna are both my favorite!!!! Love this series, but then again i love all of your videos!!! My Mama was raised during that time and i heard her say a million times that as kids they knew nothing about the great depression because everybody in this area was poor as dirt and always raised their own food. My grandfather worked for the railroad, made a whopping $15 a month!!!! Raised 18 kids!!!!
Wow 😮😊
Brooke I just saw that Tennessee residents can get their SNAP/ Food stamps replaced due to power outages and food spoilage. There is an online form to fill out that has to be done within 10 days of the June power outage. It will only cover the food bought & spoiled. Thought because you are in Tennessee and others might benefit from this information. - Kimberly
My mom was born in 1935. She always reused things like aluminum foil and ziplock bags,etc. We ate squirrels, rabbits,frogs legs,ffish. We grew a huge garden, canned and froze our own food. Raised chickens, pigs, turkeys,etc. I learned so much from her .
I think you and you family are amazing! You try to come through like an ordinary housewife. There is nothing ordinary about you. I think you are extremely smart, maybe genius. Thanks for sharing.
Hot dogs and baloney (speaking of picky)are 2 things I have detested my whole life. And there were was a balony-american cheese- mayo on cheap wheat bread sandwich in my lunch sack every stinkin day. We had to stay with our grandmother for a couple of days while my mother had surgery. She tried to feed us scrambled eggs with hot dogs. We just sat there and looked at it. Eggs were a treat for us, but nope on the hot dogs. She and my mother both made what I now know is depression potato soup, I still love that. And oatmeal cake. Grandma was otherwise a very good cook.
Girl I just found your channel about a week ago
...I love it!!!!!!!
Hi Brooke , Dusty and boys
My grandma , use to make a from scratch plain cake from all purpose flour and she took cocoa powder, water , butter , sugar , a pinch of salt and cook it in an iron skillet while the cake was cooking she would stand and stir it with a wooden spoon constantly while it cooked to kind on med heat till it started bubbling she turn the heat down to low till her mixture turned in to like a thin syrup as soon as she took the cake out of the oven that was also baked in a iron skillet she would flip her cake out the cake was kind of firm when done she would poke holes all in that cake on top and she would start spooning the chocolate syrup mixture on the cake and as soon as she was done she would cut us a piece while it was still hot with a glass of cold milk . It was a homemade cake from the depression era she lived through it was a special treat . Sending lots and lots of hugs , love , blessings and countless prayers 🙏❤️
That looked so good! I get inspired when thinking about how people fed their families during the Great Depression! We are spoiled!
My granny was a teenager during this time. She was raised on a farm, she was lucky. They bartered for the things they needed. She told me she went to school with a lot of kids that were hungry so she would “trade” her meat sandwich with others kids. She knew she would be fed when she got home but knew her classmates were not that lucky. I’ll take a fried bologna sandwich any day, on white bread with mayo/mustard and lettuce!😊
Yes!!!
Get your beef for the SOS in the refrigerated section in the lunchmeats section by Buddig. Really cheap. .i fry my meat in oil then add the flour and milk. Been eating it for over 50 years. Love it
My parents grew up during the Great Depression and talked about how hard their parents struggled to keep their families fed. When I was growing up, one thing we did NOT do in our house was waste food! I didn’t allow my girls to waste food either because I was a single mother and couldn’t afford to have food waste. I let them has all they wanted to eat, but they knew if they put it on their plate they were expected to eat it. The people that grew up in that era are slowly fading away due to their age, but I hope the struggles they faced & lessons they taught their children about survival during hard times will never be forgotten. I’m sorry for getting sappy today. My Daddy passed away 20 years ago today and I’m more emotional & sentimental than usual. 😊 Thank for sharing this recipe & video, Brooke. You are amazing!
God bless you and I will keep you in my prayers and thoughts today 💖🙏🏽
I am so thrilled you are doing this series. The depression era cooking fascinates me as well. My maternal grandmother was from Alabama and she could make a feast out of cobwebs and dirt and it was the best tasting meal you ever ate.
My mom was the same way, we could say there's nothing to eat, but she would always come up with something delicious! And she could always make a cake or cookies somehow too! ❤
I'm like that too. It looks like we have nothing and then I just start tossing things together. It usually turns out pretty good.
I love reading about the great depression and pioneering too Brooke and i love to read Laura Ingalls Wilder books about their life as pioneers as well as the show. Fascinating!!!!❤❤❤
My mother actually made this casserole for our family when I was a little girl in the 1960s. We were very poor at this time. We loved it! She also made other great depression dishes as she grew up in those days😊
Many picky Americans are learning or going to learn a hard lesson as food prices get higher and agriculture products decline because of the side effects all the heavy smoke is causing.
Thank you for sharing all your info.
I put onion, bell pepper and hot dogs and bacon in my baked beans so prob similar to that! Pretty tasty!
Brooke, that looks so good! I'd stretch it even further and put it over cooked rice. I'll bet it would be good over mashed or fried potatoes, or even over spaghetti or noodles!
Bar S, hands down, my favorite hot dog especially when I make hot dog soup!
This week, I chose a few budget friendly menus for Independence Day and beyond. First of all the roasted chicken, then chicken noodle soup is made with chicken bone broth. That gives me at least 8 to 10 servings or lunches all week. Monday and Tuesday Dinners are beef hot dogs on buns, cole slaw, and potato salad. And then, Tuesday I will also serve corn on cob and banana pudding cake. What ever is left over will suffice as long as it lasts. Eggs sandwiches are on the menu later in the week along with carrot and celery sticks. Frozen beans could also be served later towards the end of the week, along with leftover frozen meatloaf warmed up. By then, we won't be very hungry; therefore, baked potatoes smothered with spinach might hit the spot. The point is to use up what you have, starting with refrigerator and freezer food, also include pantry items.🎉
Hi. You misspelled independence. Or did you? I think Independents day could be a whole new trend.
@@cherylcook1942 : Thanks for noticing my mistake. I made the correction before anybody else said anything. Sometimes, my mind pays tricks on me, especially as I'm getting up in age.
I don’t think people realize just how vulnerable we in the US really are right now. I love your channel and how realistic you are when it comes to food insecurity. I know what it was like to have to snuggle up to my brother to keep warm when the rain was dripping on my head because my father couldn’t fix the roof of our home, but he and my mom never let us go hungry. Fried bologna sandwiches was sometimes all we had before his pay day, and it’s still one of my favorite comfort foods today, smothered in mustard😂 Keep keeping it real Brooke!
I forgot about fried bologna. Wonderful on a sandwich and for breakfast too. I'm old but I can still smell it frying in the pan.
I'm gonna have to try mustard on my fried bologna sandwich next. 🙂 I have only ate mustard on crackers lol
I only buy Bar S. I love their smoked sausage. So good. When you started frying up the onion, pepper, and bologna I thought it would be amazing with a box of mac n cheese stirred in and just have fried bologna mac n cheese. I'm going to try both the casserole and with the mac n cheese soon. Thank you for this recipe! You always have such good ideas. 💖💕
Yes, those sausage was good, I brought some from Walmart and they were really good and the price was reasonable too!❤❤
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My cat will only eat Bar S brand and I love them too 😂
My grandparents lived through this. I love all the videos you do that help with the budget. Thank you and looking forward to the next one!
I'm so excited for this series! I love reading about the Great Depression and how inventive and resilient people were then. Can't wait to try this recipe!
I am SO glad you’re doing this series! It is so good to know how to use what’s on hand and cheap. Also, how to make things from scratch!
Granny always said water gravy and pone bread. Chop suey which was spaghetti noodles cooked with onion and tomato with a little bit of burger. Or if no spaghetti noodles macaroni. Dumplins with no meat they used tomatoes . I could tell you all kinds of stuff granny would tell us . And grandma and papaw
Love this. Another great time in history for creativity in food WW2 DUE to rationing
LOVE Bar S hot dogs and bologna...especially hot dogs on the grill. When I was young (I'm 71) we ate whatever was put in front of us or we starved. We had beans, beans and more beans and rice...and potatoes. My mama could make a tasty meal out of almost anything.
Clara said her family ate peas and pasta and potatoes. Her videos are very informative.
When my grandmother died back in the 80's we found bags of crayon peices and chalk. She was a school teacher and she probably saved them for us kids! Bags of twist ties and rubber bands soap pieces and can foods out the ying yang! She did not throw anything away and it was because of the depression.
My grandmother melted broken crayons together to make candles. Her daughter (my mother) melted in s muffin tin to make multicolored crayons rounds.
WE are so so so spoiled. Even when supply chain issues were happening we still had access to food; maybe not all the things we wanted but there was something to feed our bellies. And now more than ever we need to be thankful for all the things we have including beans and bologna! I grew up on it all so it is all good for me!
My and my husbands parents gre up in the depression. They've shared a lot of history with us o er the years. Even my husband talks about they went to town once a week wheb they were kids and they may get a candy bar. After they would lick the paper. Now a days we think we need one evey day. Weve went through hard times since weve been married.
My grandmother taught me a lot since she survived the great depression. I still live according to grandma's way! Well except going to pond and catching bullfrogs for frog legs
My Nanny grew up on a farm with 9 siblings, they had to make a meal stretch! She learned how to cook from her mom during this time and passed along those recipes to me. I am actually making her "Poor Man Steak" recipe tonight for my husband who never had "struggle meals" before we met. I love this series and cant wait to learn more meals from this time! Keep rocking it out Brooke!
Poor man steak sounds amazing. Care to share the recipe?
@@Purple0fairy0bunny absolutely! It makes a lot so feed a crowd!
3lbs ground beef
1 cup milk
1 cup bread or bread crumbs
1/2 onion chopped
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can water
1. Mix meat, bread, milk and onion together and refrigerate for minimum of 3 hour overnight is preferred.
2. Make patties out of meat mixture and flour them
3. Pan fry both sides for 2 mins each til golden brown
4. Place in dish and cover with soup and water mixture
5. Cook in oven at 350 for 1 hour
I serve this over mashed potatoes and with green beans. This should feed about 6-8 really hungry people! It goes far!
Thanks that sounds tasty. Will have to try
Love this series. But I love your budget recipes too. It’s helped me more than you’ll ever know . Million thumbs up 😊
My parents were born into large families during the Great Depression. I grew up with a lot of Depression Era meals that were so good!
Me too!
Any ideas?
Great new series. I think you should do meals from the decades. Be blessed.
I love the cheap hotdogs. I grew up eating bologna sandwiches every friday night. We even had bologna gravy.
One of my favorite meals that my Mammy (great depression survivor) used to make was a baked bologna. I didn't like bologna as a kid but she baked it with orange juice and cinnamon and sugar on it and it was SO good. I dont make it often because of the sodium level, but every once in a while I just get a huge craving for it. She also used to fry up bologna slices as the meat for a meal, and did the same with spam. I just love that and the pioneer eras myself. I spent many hours at camp talking to her and having her tell me stories. I still love reading about it! Great series idea! ❤ It!
I also love reading about wagon train pioneering life and depression era. People helping people sharing what little they had. And many extended family members living together because they couldn't afford a place of their own. I would love to see you make depression era menus every month. People need to learn how to get by on less. Thanks for being a great teacher. Blessings ❤
YES! Thanks for starting this series! I'm fascinated by stories of the Great Depression and how they lived with so little.
A couple weeks back I asked my son if he would make us some fried bologna sandwiches for lunch. I guess I had never made them as he grew up, as he had no idea what I was talking about. He must of liked it though. He repeated the lunch for himself the next day. I think fried bologna is an underused option with breakfast foods.
Your kids are some of the kindest I've seen in videos. You clearly are doing an amazing job. Love all your recipe ideas and think you Come up with so many things I wouldn't think to put together ❤❤❤
I LOVE THIS! My dad was born the yr before stock crash and mom in 33. They both remembered raising gardens, chickens, and pigs for food. Both their dads were lucky to have jobs in timber when not farming. They were lucky never went hungry. Peas, Beans, Biscuits, Cornbread and eggs with some kind of meat (sometimes fried bologna ) and gravy for breakfast. Doing the garden but after watching butchering of pig I’m going to have to be hungry. Lol! Keep up the awesome work.
When your faced with starvation, anything should be great to eat. Rite!! Most of us now days are very picky and thats ashame because were headed straight back into geeat depression. Has anyone else noticed how time just rolls around in a huge circle?? Brooke one of the greatest things you can do is continue this series for us because for me personally, I am all about learning how to survive from here on out until Jesus comes back for us. It aint gonna be easy.
Thank you sweetie.
Love yall.
God bless❤
Looks like baked beans to me too! I love reading books from the 1800s. I am blessed to never as of yet gone without the foods I needed and wanted Lord willing and there is nothing wrong with bologna & hot dogs. People need to be more gracious. Happy 4th, Brooke & Co. and be blessed always! xoxo
We used to take bologna and grind it up. Add boiled eggs, relish and onion for a bologna salad sandwich. Yummy. My husband doesn't like bologna so haven't made it in ages. Remember the commercial where they spelled out b-o-l-o-n-g-a.
I remember bologna salad sandwiches!
my grandmother used to make her own baked beans.They had a baker down the street who closed on Sundays because of the blue laws.Since he could not shut the oven downs over night you could bring your full bean pot to him on Saturday night and pick your cooked beans up on Sunday on your way home from church.
My folks grew up during the depression. This was a regular meal for our table. It was inexpensive and it tastes good too
I LOVE a fried bologna sandwich!
I loved watching Clara too what a lovely lady
Bologna here in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 is bout 8.00 a pkg. Prices are crazy and gonna get worse. Thx for sharing. I hope u keep doing this series...
Oh my lord, mine was $1.18
My husband loves baloney. But it is 4.99 a pound! So I don't buy it unless it is on sale. Walmart sometimes has the Bar S brands on sale, and we love their polish sausages. Will have to try the baloney.
My grandmother raised 6 children during depression years, and we have heard many stories of the pot of beans spilling and all the kids on their hands and knees picking them up because that was all they had to eat. Cooking turtle, squirrel, rabbits, deer, beaver, bear, whatever meat they could find or catch.
My Nana was a great cook! She had worked over the Victory Garden and planned food for the food lines, and everything she cooked was so wonderful!
I love reading about the pioneer days too. I know I'm a wuss compared to what they lived through.
Looking forward to this new series! I do believe things are coming full circle & this nation will go through another depression-type era. A majority of our population will be 100% unprepared 😣
I have always loved to cook and learn new recipes. I've learned a few things from you. I enjoy your channel! There is a channel with a lady named Clara she's passed now but she spoke about her life during the great depression and shoes recipes ❤
I was thinking that you could bulk it out more by serving it with a side of rice, potatoes or bread on the side. When I was a child my parents struggled financially and I came up with a breakfast scramble we would call it these days using what we had and it included bologna or as we in Australia call it Devon. It was a mix of chopped Devon, tomato, onion, bread and them you mix up eggs and milk. Stir everything together and fry it. It was kind of like a chopped savoury French toast. Then you put ketchup on top. It was yummmm. As I grew up we didn’t eat the Devon anymore we moved up to square ham and then later real ham lol. But I still crave that breakfast scramble sometimes 😊
Teaching teenage boys American history through their stomachs. Brilliant.
I can see this even without the chili. It's very reminiscent of beenies and weenies and who doesn't love that? Save the chili and cheese for a whole second meal over rice or potatoes. 😉
That's what I was thinking...over potatoes.
I love these meals,watching in 2024, my name is cammy,meals are so interesting. ❤
I love cooking shows from the great depression..its always good to know how to cook for survival, we don't know what our future holds
Looks delicious all I need is some corn bread and Kool-Aid would it❤
During the Great Depression my parents grew up in the depression area they wouldn't have used all the onions they wouldn't have used all the pepper and they wouldn't have used a whole pack of Bologna and the men got fed before anybody else
I just love your channel so much Brooke. Not only is it educational and useful, but it’s comforting to me for some reason! You’re awesome and I’m so grateful for the work you put in to your videos!!❤
I’m really excited about this series you’re doing on Great Depression food’s!! What a great way to teach people how HARD TIMES really were. Who knows, we could be headed there again! 💕🙏🙏
I also love reading about the great depression. My parents lived during that time (this let's you know I'm not a spring chicken 😊) It's amazing how many of your old recipes are what my mom who's 91 and I still cook (like Spam!). Love your channel, young lady!
I cook spam. I love spam.
@ruthmiller5588 I was born in the late 80s and I love spamand fried bologna🙂😊
So excited for this series Brooke! I love reading about those times too! Especially with current cost of living 😅
And now I have the luxury of worry about salt content. Thank you for what you and your family are sharing.❤
Rinse the food to get the salt off.
My grandma and her parents survived on kidney beans for a year basically! She would not eat them again!! She was young and lived in horse and buggies. Had Belgians to work the farm! I loved her stories!! Miss her so much!!
Brooke is one of my favorite TH-camrs. Thank you so much, Brooke for sharing your time and your delightful family with us. This series is a great idea, I am definitely here for it.
My grandparents lived through the great depression. The hardships they endured are mesmerizing. Thanks for sharing some of your research recipes.
I’m so happy you’re doing this series! I’ve seen videos similar and I can’t wait to see how you and your boys spin it🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼
I love how creative people were then. My dad was born in 1943 and his parents were fairly poor for his childhood as they were raising 5 kids and my grandpa went back to school with his GI benefit to become a teacher. My dad still loves fried balogna! Some ketchup gets added since we’re so rich these days 😂 You can’t get the man to touch cauliflower though. They grew so much of it and he said he’s had his lifetime fill of it.
This looked so good to me. My folks were factory workers when I was growing up and we had fried boloney at least once a week. With fried potatoes or beans or eggs. I never “felt” we were poor.
My mom and her brother were children during the depression. Mom would often say nothing was wasted. So excited to see more on this series. Your meal looked good even though I do not like baloni. I think I could eat it that way. Happy 4 th to you and the family.
Love that you are so grateful for family and food. Your kindness for others shines through. 11:52