20 Depression-Era Foods That VANISHED From The Family Table!
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Published 2024-06-29
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Can you picture the types of meals families relying on during the tough times of the Great Depression? With no item wasted, innovative and unexpected food combinations were formed. See how necessity led to creative outcomes. Here we go!
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:15 Hoover Stew
1:07 Mock Apple Pie
1:58 Cornmeal Mush
2:47 Dandelion Salad
3:38 Vinegar Pie
4:29 Potato Pancakes
5:22 Boiled Carrot Sandwich
6:13 Prune Pudding
6:50 Egg Drop Soup
7:38 Cabbage And Noodles
8:28 Bean Soup
9:13 Milk Toast
10:05 Creamed Chipped Beef On Toast
10:58 Oatmeal Cakes
11:50 Squirrel Stew
12:37 Depression Cake
13:34 Corned Beef Hash
14:26 Potato Soup
15:03 Apple Brown Betties
15:54 Hominy
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All Comments (21)
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Which Depression-era recipes did you ever tried making at home?
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Hello, My father was born in California and is 96 years old now. He had 6 siblings and my Grandmother fed her family of 9 very cleverly during the depression. My father had creamed chipped beef regularly. During the pandemic I enjoyed trying depression recipes when my usual food items were not always available. I felt I was learning a lot from their example. I admire the ingenuity of people who made the most of what they had during difficult times!
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We had creamed dried beef on toast when I was growing up in the 60’s and 70’s. The small glass that the dried beef came in was recycled as a juice glass. My favorite breakfast in college before heading to clinical for my nursing degree was creamed dried beef on toast. It kept you warm in the snowy cold winters of Niagara Falls, NY where I went to school.
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Potato pancakes are popular worldwide. Latkes AKA.
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My mother taught my younger brother how to make egg drop soup and he put eggs in every soup he made and it really was delicious❤ RIP my beautiful Eric
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Hello again, I will have to ask my Father about Hoover stew. I do know my grandfather worked on the Hoover Dam during the depression. He was willing to do most anything to support his family during the depression and appreciated having a job. My father said he would come home every few months to spend time with his family.
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My Mommy is 101, and she said that she had it good, even during the Depression. With today’s economy, I believe her. Those old ingredients that used to be cheap are actually UNAFFORDABLE today.
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Not all of these have disappeared. Potato pancakes are still very much a thing. So is cabbage and noodle stir fry. Egg drop soup is popular at Chinese restaurants under its more common name, egg flower soup. Potato soup, bean soup, and corned beef hash are less common, but they're still around. Most American diners with soup on the menu will have potato soup and bean soup on the menu rotation.
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Very edifying (historically). Thank you. Much respect for people who creatively make do, and remain good humans . God bless us.
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Some of these foods I have eaten and liked others I didn't like I really enjoyed potato pancakes with butter or cheese on them Thanks for the Memories. 🥔🥔🥔🥔
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Did Bubble'n'Squeak ever make it big in USA ? Did in UK. Basically consists of yesterday's mashed potato fried up in lard till crispy , with yesterday's cabbage,onions, or anything else which came to hand, salt & pepper . Something of an acquired taste, but once you get used to it can be quite moreish. Derives its name from the sound it makes cooking in the pan.
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Corn Meal Mush is still a good "poor man's" breakfast.
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Polish pancakes are also called latkes. 7:54
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I make and eat all of these foods regularly.
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Beans are still cooked in many homes. And, offered in restaurants.
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Potato pancakes are still made, it was one of my favorite suppers, but I didn't like grating potatoes, because, no matter how carefully you grated them, you still nicked your knuckles. Milk toast is toasted, buttered bread broken into heated milk, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, or if you were feeling poorly, salt & pepper, with a poached egg
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Mom made Hoover Stew macaroni and tomato without the hotdog rounds and paired with ground meat patties. These recipes extended into the 40s because of the rationing of WW2, Dad didn't allow chipped beef on toast ie s**t on a shingle because of the war
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Cornmeal mush= polenta my grandma apparently would put the leftovers in empty cans put in the refrigerator and slice and fry the next morning, these slices were treated as pancakes.
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I was raised by a depression grandmother. So learned to be resourceful use leftovers and repurpose. Fried mush is pretty tasty.
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I still have my grandmother's recipe for mock apple pie - and my mom would make it sometimes in the 50s, as both she and dad remembered it fondly from growing up in the Depression. Sadly, my mother also made a lot of casseroles with loads of pasta, canned tomatoes, to stretch out ground beef to feed our family of 6. Bless her, she had no clue about seasoning and she always stretched it further by adding celery. To this day I can't eat cooked celery and combine it with pasta.....I'm out the door.
