That Victory Cookbook is awesome, you should also watch the Wartime Farm series too for an extremely enlightening look at agriculture in times of war. I would also add The Joy of Cooking to that list as it has tones of technical information about meat cuts, the science side of baking, explanations of techniques, etc. as well as 100's of recipes from pie crust to beef stew to ketchup!
Love this video!! Clara's recipes were filmed for youtube. They are great to watch as she explains the history behind the meals. Being part Sicilian, my grandmother and mother always made hotdogs and potatoes! We all love it and I still make it for my family. My grandfather always ate dandelion greens from his yard, as well as thick crust pizza. Thanks for a trip down memory lane.
Clara has a YT channel. Her grandson filmed her making some of these recipes and did some interviews with her about living through the Great Depression.
I do believe that Pennsylvania Dutch Cookbook is in a collection of books I have of my grandmothers. I need to go dig that out. And you are 100% correct. Cooking from scratch is probably the most important skill anyone could have. I homeschool now, and have started my 7 year old in the kitchen already. Science and life skills.. so important! My older two are off on their own and I made sure they left here with a great cooking skill set. Thanks for the video. LOVE the out takes! SOOOO funny! Peace ~L
The wife and I have our books. Nothing beats my great grandmothers and grandmothers hand written reciepts for when they lived through the great depression. How to make our own ketchup 😛
I forgot to mention in my other comment, soups and stews. They are also a good way to stretch ingredients. Small amount of meat and some veggies add water and you could feed 3 or 4 people.
Great vid once again! I can remember my parents talking about the way they ate growing up. My dad always said "we never went to the grocery store." The house he grew up in had a stone foundation and dirt floor basement. It was used as a root cellar. All the carrots potatoes beets etc. were packed down there for the winter. Everything else was canned. Love the bloopers at the end!! LOL
I love Clara! She was amazing...such a sweet, sweet lady. I just recently found her channel and watched them all! I'm going after that Pennsylvania Dutch cookbook for sure! Thanks!
I have the PENNSYLVANIA Dutch Cooking book! I love that one... I'm a Northwestern Pennsylvania Gal and our pastor moved there 10yrs ago and now is back up here but Terri learned how to cook for the Lancaster PA Amish 😉👍👍👍👍
Great books for sure! Bloopers! Love em! hahahha! My mother could make a meal out of an empty pantry....she lived during the depression and spent time in Germany with the Army of Occupations.....my dad was in the army 29 years. She knew all about rations. Thanks for mentioning that....so many people don't realize how hard it was.
My own essential cookbook recommendation is the Wycliffe International Cookbook. It was designed for missionaries who had varying ingredients and kitchen stuffs to cook foods from scratch. I am still going back to it all the time nearly 20 years after I got it and used it a lot myself when I lived overseas. Thanks for the other cookbook recommendations. I especially want to check out Clara's and the Victory one, though the Penn Dutch will be added too as my grandmother's family is of Pennsylvania Dutch stock.
My Nana gave me two of these cookbooks when I was around 19. That was more than 20 yrs ago!! My grandmother grew up in Bethlehem area....lineage The King & Mallozzi family's....
Great video. I was raised in south Louisiana and I would call the way we ate frugal cooking, making meals out of beans and rice usually mixed with a small amount of meat, smothered meats with gravy over rice, jambalaya which used all the leftovers with seasoning and rice. Yeah, we eat a lot of rice, lol.
Very interesting. I have Clara's book and the Pennsylvania Dutch Cookbook, but not the Victory Cookbook. I have searched a lot of the Depression and war time lifestyles and ways of cooking or surviving. I think it is very important to know the ways of times before us. History has a way of repeating itself at times in a round about ways. Skills in life are the most important part of prepping. It's the "What If's", that we need to think about. Great video. I love your channel, a look forward to daily watching a video of the past as well as I drop what ever if there's a notification that comes in for a new video. Love the bloopers also. Always a good chuckle.
Thank you for the hot leads on frugal cookbooks. I just ordered the Victory Cookbook online and was wondering if you would do a video of more frugal cooking. I just watched your Lord Woolton pie video and now I just want to binge-watch. YUM!
We cook so much goulosh. Having a garden has taught me SOOOOOOOOO much about just cooking what I have. Basically skillet of potatoes or zucchini or beans and greens, tomatoes, roots/corn... Spices/herbs, add meat or beans, rice. FAT is essential. Add fat. We also keep our "bullion" as you call it, and our own stock. We have been super tight, so we do a lot of huge one pot meals, that we can have for lunch the following day (saves lunch and cooking costs to do in big batches). My daughter, now 7 always asks what's for supper. As most meals I just make up, I often just call it goulosh. She told me one day that we always have goulosh, but it's never the same meal. I took that as a compliment. : )
Have you watched Clara's RUclips channel? It's so good. I am a scratch cooker for past few years. I plan to get all three books. I'm also handwriting all my recipes that I learned from my Mom and grandmothers for my children. Thanks again for all you do.
oh my !! this brings back childhood memories, my dad used to cook some of the recipes from the 2nd WW, he was in his teens back then so you can imagine he was cooking from memories of some meals.. Well, my mom worked as a nurse (evening shift) there were many nights we (sister and i) waited for her to come home and begged her to have my dad stop cooking his wartime meals.. we laugh about it now, we survived but it was painful back then hahaha if we had to go through this in today's day and age.. wow i'd be affraid because not alot can cook!!
Glad your favourite book is English!! My grandma always used to say that she lived on chips during the war. My grandad was fighting away and she had two small children. Money was very tight.
We use under sized peaches from a processing plant. 2000 # chilled in our fish walk in cooler. Then buy jars and have others can for half during harvest season. Many retired people are glad to do it.
I've been watching a series on RUclips called War Time Garden & Kitchen and it's so fascinating! I've learned lots of great tips! Great info- love Clara's Kitchen!
Awesome! As the "cook" in the family I love cook books! I will add these to my prepper pantry! Thanks for the recommendation! In between flying jobs I ran my own catering company for a few years! It was great! I really do love to cook, and even more make good food people enjoy! The problem I have with my cookbooks is they get used, worn, and some times tattered! Despite my best efforts to take care of them! Which is what they were designed for! To use, not sit on some bookshelf! Just think about when you are on a back packing trip. Or out in the field, or other situations where food is not readily available. Food that usually may not be your first choice can taste pretty darn good if it is all you have! By practicing frugal or prepping recipes ahead of time you can take some pretty basic ingredients and turn out some really great meals! Which in hard times is very important not only for nutrition, but also for morale!
That is SO true! I finally had to copy all my favs from old cookbooks and put them in plastic page protectors. They are in a ring binder now. I still drag out the old cookbooks sometimes for this or that. But, I believe doing that saved them. They are looking pretty bad and I want them to last forever. Put those copies in sheet protectors. They wipe off really well. And if a page sticks to the other once in awhile...it doesn't matter. It won't tear the recipe when you pull to separate it.
Great video! You're right cooking is a very important skill to have. Cooking from scratch is even more important. I wonder what percentage of the population would really know how to cook and be prepared with all the tools they need in order to cook from scratch and be able to improvise as needed.
Thanks for the cookbook tips. I just went to Amazon and ordered Victory Cookbook. Other frugal cookbooks: all purpose cookbooks published in the 30's and 40's Amish cookbooks are both frugal and fascinating.
Being from Lancaster I’ve got that PA Dutch cookbook handed down from my Mennonite Grandma lol. Another I’d recommend is Dining During the Depression. It’s out of print, but I found it pretty cheap on Amazon.
I have watched some documentaries from BBC. War time farm, Tales from the green valley, Edwardian farm, Victorian farm. I have learned so much from them. Give them a watch.
Growing up I thought it was made of worse things than what the recipe called for. I was surprised! (course, I have no idea what I was eating as a kid. We just fried it and smothered it in maple syrup lol)
Thank you so much. I really feel this video helped with my prepper question from last week plan to get one or more of them and start learning. Thank you!!
SO!!! When I let my anxiety win and don't go grocery shopping and don't make menus and then I'm forced to be creative I am ACTUALLY building my prepping skill set!!! YES!!! LOL this was AWESOME! thanks for your time! ~Trish btw we tagged you in a collab if you interested :)
oh my heck me too!!! There are sooo many channels to watch and not enough time!!! And no pressure if the collab isn't something you want to do!! I get it!! :)
I never would have thought you had an amish background!! Both my parents were, but jumped the fence as they say. Do you speak any dutch, I do, that is all we talked at home growing up. I'm from Ohio. Love your channel
Jaime, my family heritage too is Pennsylvania Dutch... When asked by friends what makes the food so good I respond that the three staple ingredients that were always in my Mother and Grandmother''s kitchens were sugar, flour and lard... Another place to look for very good cookbooks is many of the Pennsylvania Grange Associations still publish cookbooks which are a collection of Grange members family recipes. Many are crossover recipes from Pennsylvania Dutch cooking... Thanks for the video...
Very good, I was born In Harrisburg PA. My dad is Pennsylvania Dutch, live in Oregon all my life, y'all do great information rich videos, well done too. TY
I love Clara! RIP. "Possum Living" is one you might get something out of. I have that exact Pennsylvania Dutch book! I love the Brit videos from that time, too.
I've read and really enjoyed Clara's cook book. Although Clara has passed, there are many you tube videos showing her cooking many of the recipes in her cook book.
I have seen Clara's videos too, and just ordered the cookbook. You're right Jamie! Nothing beats a hard copy. The cookbook is very reasonably priced on Amazon.
I totally agree about having the "hard copy". I have several depression era cookbooks. Not only do they have great frugal recipes but also medical advice. I was just suggesting that if anyone wanted to see Clara on video, you tube has several of her making the recipes in her book and stories about that period in her life.
I definitely need to look into getting some of these! I'm really bad for relying on pinterest and Google for recipes but in a shtf situation those probably won't be accessible. Also, love, love, love the ministry of magic outtake! Lmao! 😁😂
For some strange reason the older I get the simpler I like to eat. For example cabbage( I am polish and we eat a lot of it:-)) plus onion cooked in little butter with little hot dog( cut into pieces) is a great meal for me. I kind of noticed that all vegetables cooked in little fat and with ether meat or grated cheese on top taste amazing ( even my 4 and 6 years old children like them:-))
I have that Penn Dutch cookbook. Will look into the Victory Cookbook. I recommend Stocking Up by the editors of Organic Gardening & Farming ( 1973 ) I use this one a lot, since I bought it in 1973!My gram's favorite was A Vermont Cook Book By The Green Mountain Studios, Inc. ( 1946) All down home simple Yankee farm fare..
I have a recommendation! This book changed everything about how I am able to cook. "An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace" by Tamar Adler. What a book! This book taught me how to walk into my kitchen, tie on my apron, take a deep breath, and create something for my family to eat under any circumstances!
The Purity Cookbook is a great option as well for simple but good recipes using a very limited array of ingredients. I learned to cook out of that book and it is still one of my go to recipe books.
I like the pre 1960 Betty Crocker and Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks, 1946 Joy of Cooking and I've found other interesting books at auctions including a little1933 jewel All About Home Baking. If you can find the small cookbooks that were put out by various companies back in the 1930's and 1940's they are also very interesting and useful. The 1946 Joy of Cooking tells how to cook woodchuck and other wild meats, how to dress a chicken as well as how to cook everything from scratch. They have recipes using canned soups but footnote recipes in the book for sauces to do from scratch. In fact, I think canned soup is the only convenience food mentioned in the book. Since this was published just after WWII they also include war time recipes which are frugal in the extreme.
I just ordered the "Victory Cookbook" from Amazon. Yikers...a new book cost $61! I found a "like new" used copy for $17 plus tax which was definitely more affordable. I've always been interested in learning more about Victory Gardens and rationing and have watched original instructional clips on RUclips from WWII about these subjects. There are also some good shows on RUclips like BBC's "1940s House."
I’ve had the Victory Cookbook for a few years and love it. I use it all the time. The honey cakes are great. Plus a friend of mine in the UK taught me how to make chocolate steamed pudding, it’s fabulous. Another great WWII cookbook from the UK is The Wartime Kitchen and Garden. It to has frugal recipes plus you can watch the series, under the same name, on utube. Ok enough rambling for now just had to put in my two cents about the Victory Cookbook. The one thing I do different using these recipes is I use butter not margarine. I just recently came across your channel and while I’m not homesteading I learn a lot from your videos. Thanks.
My favorite cook book is More With Less by Doris Janzen Longacre commissioned by the Mennonite Central Committee .I would be interested what you think about it.
Pennsyltucky, hahaha!! My husband used to say that to the kids all the time to make them laugh! I watched a documentary on the making of Clara's kitchen but haven't gotten the book yet. Thanks for the suggestions.
It would be hard to find ANYone as hard hit by rationing as us during WW2. It's why our dishes don't typically have anywhere near as much Sugar or Cheese as yours. Sugar was in fact still rationed in the late 50's in the UK. The only people who survived well through the hard rationing were people who had a small farm or homestead.
Definitely 3 more cookbooks in the Amazon cart now, thank ya . I think I had the PA Dutch one you showed but I couldn't find it just now so maybe I just recognized it from someone else's collection or something.... I'm old, I forget things! :) Anyway thanks for the video. I feel like skills like the ones taught from those books and ones similar to them will get you a lot further than a lot of folk realize. So maybe I have 3ish months of food stores but when you know how to stretch it that can easily expand to six months. I did recently stop burning pop-tarts though so well made, frugal & balanced meals are just down the road for me haha! Right? No?
Thank you so much for your book recommendations; from the 3, I have 2. Totally agree with you on the Victory Cookbook. It's a great choice. I had a big laugh (thank you for that as well) with "who doesn't like bacon" ! 😀 I have a vast library on different subjects including cooking / food history and I use recipes from them all but the 3 favourites of mine (it was hard to select) and recommending (for frugal meals that would also give you a reflection of a community's history, culture and values, certain periods in history) would be: 1. Jewish Cookery Book by Esther Levy Originally printed in 1871 and has been reprinted since; technically called Jewish Cookery Book on the Principles of Economy. it also includes Medicinal Recipes; it’s most notable for being the first Jewish and kosher cookbook published in America. if I only had one cooking book, this would be it (it's a 'bible' for me and truly a monumental work) this would be it: 2. The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York by Claudia Roden It's the result of 15 years of traveling around the world and collecting recipes and the stories from where they may have come or been derived from. 3. Grandma's Wartime Kitchen: World War II and the Way We Cooked by Joanne Lamb Hayes This one really stresses on how not to waste, something that somehow seems to be forgotten by many; if food is highly important, so is the lack of food; many of the recipes only need 4-5 ingredients; it also covers the U.S. government's food rules and ration books, stretching staples and a very informative look at women on the Home Front in the 1940s. For the first two books, there's definitely no bacon! 😀 But there are awesome sausage recipes where the pork meat is replaced with bread and spices only. (still laughing). 👍🏻
I got all three! I used your links AND got to use Hilton Honors points and that helped you and me!! Yay. Now two of the books were used but I am good with that! Thank you!
Jaime I'm originally from York, PA and have that Dutch cookbook! So did your family fight over the crispy skin of the hog maw? We did! Pot pies a fave here. Also scrapple and schnitz and knepp! Yum! Red beet eggs, chow chow..oh man now I need to add stuff to our menu for next week! No one does that sweet sour thing like the PA dutch. My grandpa spoke dutch- mostly when he was cussing at our horses! Thanks for all the great videos- will try to find those other books.
I don't know if you have ever seen it before but there's a video series called wartime Farm and you can watch it on RUclips it's a really fabulous series and then they go to other places and do different series as well. Thank you for the great cook book recommendations have a great day.
i think pretty much anything from a war or post war era will have some value to it, theyre full of things to make with extremely limited resources (often rationed amounts) which is kind of a cornerstone of prepping imo, its that "what can you do with less" mentality, how far can you stretch a handfull of ingredients and how well can you feed yourself and your family. im partial towards anything to do with jams jellies or preserves, even meat preservation or charcuterie, skills and recepies to keep food for long term, ways to store the bounty that grows in the spring for the much leaner winters. this video also got me wondering what other kind of books you have in your prepper library, it would be great to see in a video, i think you can always tell a lot about a person from the books they keep.
With the worry from north Korea what do you think would be a (step up your game) on prepping. Been prepping for about 5yr. You have some great ideas. Saw this last night..... hard tact made with water salt flour. Make till brown last forever. Used in the civil war. Soak in broth water milk just what ever you had. Your input would be appreciated. Thanks for your super video.
Claras cooking is superb. Love the woman when she lived then the videos her grandson made of her cooking.
That Victory Cookbook is awesome, you should also watch the Wartime Farm series too for an extremely enlightening look at agriculture in times of war. I would also add The Joy of Cooking to that list as it has tones of technical information about meat cuts, the science side of baking, explanations of techniques, etc. as well as 100's of recipes from pie crust to beef stew to ketchup!
I love Clara! I watched all her videos on RUclips when I was laid off. I learned so much!
She will be missed!
I love the books but I love the bloopers even More! So cute!
Love this video!! Clara's recipes were filmed for youtube. They are great to watch as she explains the history behind the meals.
Being part Sicilian, my grandmother and mother always made hotdogs and potatoes! We all love it and I still make it for my family.
My grandfather always ate dandelion greens from his yard, as well as thick crust pizza.
Thanks for a trip down memory lane.
Clara has a YT channel. Her grandson filmed her making some of these recipes and did some interviews with her about living through the Great Depression.
I do believe that Pennsylvania Dutch Cookbook is in a collection of books I have of my grandmothers. I need to go dig that out. And you are 100% correct. Cooking from scratch is probably the most important skill anyone could have. I homeschool now, and have started my 7 year old in the kitchen already. Science and life skills.. so important! My older two are off on their own and I made sure they left here with a great cooking skill set. Thanks for the video. LOVE the out takes! SOOOO funny! Peace ~L
The wife and I have our books. Nothing beats my great grandmothers and grandmothers hand written reciepts for when they lived through the great depression. How to make our own ketchup 😛
I'm totally up for Ministry of Magic recipes!
BWAHAHA!!!
Fannie Farmer cookbook as well the first one was published in the 1800's at the boston cooking school
this is so funny. I have the second book cause my german teacher gave it to me in 9th grade about 50 yrs ago
I forgot to mention in my other comment, soups and stews. They are also a good way to stretch ingredients. Small amount of meat and some veggies add water and you could feed 3 or 4 people.
Great vid once again! I can remember my parents talking about the way they ate growing up. My dad always said "we never went to the grocery store." The house he grew up in had a stone foundation and dirt floor basement. It was used as a root cellar. All the carrots potatoes beets etc. were packed down there for the winter. Everything else was canned. Love the bloopers at the end!! LOL
I love Clara! She was amazing...such a sweet, sweet lady. I just recently found her channel and watched them all! I'm going after that Pennsylvania Dutch cookbook for sure! Thanks!
Cookbooks! A weakness of mine. Thanks for sharing. I love gathering useful recipes.
And your outtakes are a favorite of mine!!
Great video! Really liked this one.....most people don't even begin to think about cooking differently. That is one big beginning step!
clare's kicthen...omgosh I watched her videos. ..
I have the PENNSYLVANIA Dutch Cooking book! I love that one... I'm a Northwestern Pennsylvania Gal and our pastor moved there 10yrs ago and now is back up here but Terri learned how to cook for the Lancaster PA Amish 😉👍👍👍👍
Great books for sure! Bloopers! Love em! hahahha! My mother could make a meal out of an empty pantry....she lived during the depression and spent time in Germany with the Army of Occupations.....my dad was in the army 29 years. She knew all about rations. Thanks for mentioning that....so many people don't realize how hard it was.
+Mrs Soap Peddler's Homestead Most people today don't realize how hard it was (myself included). We can only imagine...
I'm a Harry Potter fan. I had a good chuckle on the Ministry of Magic slip😄
There is actually a Hogwarts cookbook, have you seen it? Includes recipes like the famous treacle tart. LOL.
Thanks for linking this on today's video. It has been a while since I've seen it. These three are on my to buy list now.
My own essential cookbook recommendation is the Wycliffe International Cookbook. It was designed for missionaries who had varying ingredients and kitchen stuffs to cook foods from scratch. I am still going back to it all the time nearly 20 years after I got it and used it a lot myself when I lived overseas.
Thanks for the other cookbook recommendations. I especially want to check out Clara's and the Victory one, though the Penn Dutch will be added too as my grandmother's family is of Pennsylvania Dutch stock.
My Nana gave me two of these cookbooks when I was around 19. That was more than 20 yrs ago!! My grandmother grew up in Bethlehem area....lineage The King & Mallozzi family's....
Great video. I was raised in south Louisiana and I would call the way we ate frugal cooking, making meals out of beans and rice usually mixed with a small amount of meat, smothered meats with gravy over rice, jambalaya which used all the leftovers with seasoning and rice. Yeah, we eat a lot of rice, lol.
Jambalaya is one of Jeremy's top favs ;0)
LOL. Love the bloopers at the end.
Thanks for sharing Clara's book, RIP Clara
I'm recommending "Cookin' With Beans and Rice" by Peggy Layton. Good staples are beans and rice and this gives you some good variations.
Very interesting. I have Clara's book and the Pennsylvania Dutch Cookbook, but not the Victory Cookbook. I have searched a lot of the Depression and war time lifestyles and ways of cooking or surviving. I think it is very important to know the ways of times before us. History has a way of repeating itself at times in a round about ways. Skills in life are the most important part of prepping. It's the "What If's", that we need to think about. Great video. I love your channel, a look forward to daily watching a video of the past as well as I drop what ever if there's a notification that comes in for a new video. Love the bloopers also. Always a good chuckle.
Thank you for the hot leads on frugal cookbooks. I just ordered the Victory Cookbook online and was wondering if you would do a video of more frugal cooking. I just watched your Lord Woolton pie video and now I just want to binge-watch. YUM!
We cook so much goulosh. Having a garden has taught me SOOOOOOOOO much about just cooking what I have.
Basically skillet of potatoes or zucchini or beans and greens, tomatoes, roots/corn... Spices/herbs, add meat or beans, rice. FAT is essential. Add fat. We also keep our "bullion" as you call it, and our own stock. We have been super tight, so we do a lot of huge one pot meals, that we can have for lunch the following day (saves lunch and cooking costs to do in big batches). My daughter, now 7 always asks what's for supper. As most meals I just make up, I often just call it goulosh. She told me one day that we always have goulosh, but it's never the same meal. I took that as a compliment. : )
Have you watched Clara's RUclips channel? It's so good. I am a scratch cooker for past few years. I plan to get all three books. I'm also handwriting all my recipes that I learned from my Mom and grandmothers for my children. Thanks again for all you do.
+Charles Donald Yep I have. That's what made me get the book
Clara's kitchen has a RUclips channel also! Very good videos
oh my !! this brings back childhood memories, my dad used to cook some of the recipes from the 2nd WW, he was in his teens back then so you can imagine he was cooking from memories of some meals.. Well, my mom worked as a nurse (evening shift) there were many nights we (sister and i) waited for her to come home and begged her to have my dad stop cooking his wartime meals.. we laugh about it now, we survived but it was painful back then hahaha
if we had to go through this in today's day and age.. wow i'd be affraid because not alot can cook!!
Potter fan he. I love it. Good thing my Bday is comming up. Being dutch the second and thirt one are going on my giftlist.
victory cookbook has been in my collection for a long time
Do you cook from it though? or is it more of a reference?
Glad your favourite book is English!! My grandma always used to say that she lived on chips during the war. My grandad was fighting away and she had two small children. Money was very tight.
We use under sized peaches from a processing plant. 2000 # chilled in our fish walk in cooler. Then buy jars and have others can for half during harvest season. Many retired people are glad to do it.
Well what-do-you-know! I have the Victory Cookbook! Bought it years ago when I lived in the UK 🇬🇧😃
the outtakes are GOLD!! lolol
I've been watching a series on RUclips called War Time Garden & Kitchen and it's so fascinating! I've learned lots of great tips! Great info- love Clara's Kitchen!
I watched all the BBC Farm ones but haven't seen this one. I will have to check it out!
Stephanie Nuce that's a great series isn't it 🙂
Awesome! As the "cook" in the family I love cook books! I will add these to my prepper pantry! Thanks for the recommendation! In between flying jobs I ran my own catering company for a few years! It was great! I really do love to cook, and even more make good food people enjoy! The problem I have with my cookbooks is they get used, worn, and some times tattered! Despite my best efforts to take care of them! Which is what they were designed for! To use, not sit on some bookshelf! Just think about when you are on a back packing trip. Or out in the field, or other situations where food is not readily available. Food that usually may not be your first choice can taste pretty darn good if it is all you have! By practicing frugal or prepping recipes ahead of time you can take some pretty basic ingredients and turn out some really great meals! Which in hard times is very important not only for nutrition, but also for morale!
You can tell how good a recipe is by the amount of "spatter" on the recipe page lol
That is SO true! I finally had to copy all my favs from old cookbooks and put them in plastic page protectors. They are in a ring binder now. I still drag out the old cookbooks sometimes for this or that. But, I believe doing that saved them. They are looking pretty bad and I want them to last forever. Put those copies in sheet protectors. They wipe off really well. And if a page sticks to the other once in awhile...it doesn't matter. It won't tear the recipe when you pull to separate it.
Great video! You're right cooking is a very important skill to have. Cooking from scratch is even more important. I wonder what percentage of the population would really know how to cook and be prepared with all the tools they need in order to cook from scratch and be able to improvise as needed.
You can never go wrong with knowing how to make a Lord Woolton Pie. Great Wartime fare and absolutely delicious!
+Just me Love em!
I loved Clara's videos! She was a super sweet and practical lady.
Claire has a great RUclips channel...or her grandson has one featuring her. Great stories from her.
Thanks for the cookbook tips. I just went to Amazon and ordered Victory Cookbook.
Other frugal cookbooks:
all purpose cookbooks published in the 30's and 40's
Amish cookbooks are both frugal and fascinating.
+Rose Ramble 👍🏻
Being from Lancaster I’ve got that PA Dutch cookbook handed down from my Mennonite Grandma lol.
Another I’d recommend is Dining During the Depression. It’s out of print, but I found it pretty cheap on Amazon.
Excellent. I will begin with the Victory cookbook. Thanks. Best
I have watched some documentaries from BBC. War time farm, Tales from the green valley, Edwardian farm, Victorian farm. I have learned so much from them. Give them a watch.
+Rita Owen - We have watched them all.
yes growing up in oxford PA i got used to scrapple, mush , its hard to fine it in upper east TN. good luck and God bless
Growing up I thought it was made of worse things than what the recipe called for. I was surprised! (course, I have no idea what I was eating as a kid. We just fried it and smothered it in maple syrup lol)
Love the outtakes too!
Thank you so much. I really feel this video helped with my prepper question from last week plan to get one or more of them and start learning. Thank you!!
SO!!! When I let my anxiety win and don't go grocery shopping and don't make menus and then I'm forced to be creative I am ACTUALLY building my prepping skill set!!! YES!!! LOL this was AWESOME! thanks for your time! ~Trish btw we tagged you in a collab if you interested :)
+Willow Creek Homestead Been lack in watching videos lately - gah! I will check it out! 😊👍🏻
oh my heck me too!!! There are sooo many channels to watch and not enough time!!! And no pressure if the collab isn't something you want to do!! I get it!! :)
I never would have thought you had an amish background!! Both my parents were, but jumped the fence as they say. Do you speak any dutch, I do, that is all we talked at home growing up. I'm from Ohio. Love your channel
+lmast41 Amish is just one religion of the PA Dutch. My family wasn't Amish
+lmast41 Oh and I unfortunately do not speak German at all. My grandma spoke a hodgepodge of it, but I never picked up on it (sadly)
Jaime, my family heritage too is Pennsylvania Dutch... When asked by friends what makes the food so good I respond that the three staple ingredients that were always in my Mother and Grandmother''s kitchens were sugar, flour and lard... Another place to look for very good cookbooks is many of the Pennsylvania Grange Associations still publish cookbooks which are a collection of Grange members family recipes. Many are crossover recipes from Pennsylvania Dutch cooking... Thanks for the video...
Of course! The Grange Fair!
Very good, I was born In Harrisburg PA. My dad is Pennsylvania Dutch, live in Oregon all my life, y'all do great information rich videos, well done too. TY
I love Clara! RIP. "Possum Living" is one you might get something out of. I have that exact Pennsylvania Dutch book! I love the Brit videos from that time, too.
I've read and really enjoyed Clara's cook book. Although Clara has passed, there are many you tube videos showing her cooking many of the recipes in her cook book.
+Denise Wall Perhaps. But if the power goes out it's a great reference. Plus the videos can't duplicate the stories. Well worth getting imo
I have seen Clara's videos too, and just ordered the cookbook. You're right Jamie! Nothing beats a hard copy. The cookbook is very reasonably priced on Amazon.
I totally agree about having the "hard copy". I have several depression era cookbooks. Not only do they have great frugal recipes but also medical advice. I was just suggesting that if anyone wanted to see Clara on video, you tube has several of her making the recipes in her book and stories about that period in her life.
iI'll have to get that book. sounds like my kinda cooking. Even with just hubby and me I still cook very limited. Hope your having a great day! Mare
I definitely need to look into getting some of these! I'm really bad for relying on pinterest and Google for recipes but in a shtf situation those probably won't be accessible. Also, love, love, love the ministry of magic outtake! Lmao! 😁😂
+Kayla Webb Lol couldn't think of the name 😂
For some strange reason the older I get the simpler I like to eat. For example cabbage( I am polish and we eat a lot of it:-)) plus onion cooked in little butter with little hot dog( cut into pieces) is a great meal for me. I kind of noticed that all vegetables cooked in little fat and with ether meat or grated cheese on top taste amazing ( even my 4 and 6 years old children like them:-))
I have to agree with that...simple is good!
YES Janie =) Thank you for the Link =)
Wonderful info! Been searching for these type of cookbooks for a long time.
I have that Penn Dutch cookbook. Will look into the Victory Cookbook. I recommend Stocking Up by the editors of Organic Gardening & Farming ( 1973 ) I use this one a lot, since I bought it in 1973!My gram's favorite was A Vermont Cook Book By The Green Mountain Studios, Inc. ( 1946) All down home simple Yankee farm fare..
Can't wait to give these books a read and a trial!
I have a recommendation! This book changed everything about how I am able to cook. "An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace" by Tamar Adler. What a book! This book taught me how to walk into my kitchen, tie on my apron, take a deep breath, and create something for my family to eat under any circumstances!
www.amazon.com/Everlasting-Meal-Cooking-Economy-Grace/dp/1439181888/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502512130&sr=8-1&keywords=everlasting+meal
Thanks!
Hahaha Loved the outtakes!!
The Purity Cookbook is a great option as well for simple but good recipes using a very limited array of ingredients. I learned to cook out of that book and it is still one of my go to recipe books.
Great video. Love the outtakes!
I like the pre 1960 Betty Crocker and Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks, 1946 Joy of Cooking and I've found other interesting books at auctions including a little1933 jewel All About Home Baking. If you can find the small cookbooks that were put out by various companies back in the 1930's and 1940's they are also very interesting and useful. The 1946 Joy of Cooking tells how to cook woodchuck and other wild meats, how to dress a chicken as well as how to cook everything from scratch. They have recipes using canned soups but footnote recipes in the book for sauces to do from scratch. In fact, I think canned soup is the only convenience food mentioned in the book. Since this was published just after WWII they also include war time recipes which are frugal in the extreme.
I just ordered the "Victory Cookbook" from Amazon. Yikers...a new book cost $61! I found a "like new" used copy for $17 plus tax which was definitely more affordable.
I've always been interested in learning more about Victory Gardens and rationing and have watched original instructional clips on RUclips from WWII about these subjects. There are also some good shows on RUclips like BBC's "1940s House."
Great suggestions- thanks!
I got these after you recommended and so glad I did. It is so nice to open a cookbook and I already have all the items needed. Good, good stuff.
Love the out takes! 😄
I’ve had the Victory Cookbook for a few years and love it. I use it all the time. The honey cakes are great. Plus a friend of mine in the UK taught me how to make chocolate steamed pudding, it’s fabulous. Another great WWII cookbook from the UK is The Wartime Kitchen and Garden. It to has frugal recipes plus you can watch the series, under the same name, on utube. Ok enough rambling for now just had to put in my two cents about the Victory Cookbook. The one thing I do different using these recipes is I use butter not margarine.
I just recently came across your channel and while I’m not homesteading I learn a lot from your videos. Thanks.
Completely forgot about that one. I ordered it from the UK via Amazon and never received it
Guildbrook Farm - Off Grid Living I got it from Amazon US. It’s been a few years.
thank you.
Thank you for sharing🙂💓👍
You need to find a cookbook called (THE HOUSEHOLD SEARCHLIGHT RECIPE BOOK) it was put out by The Household Magazine.
Thank you!
Good book recommendations.
My favorite cook book is More With Less by Doris Janzen Longacre commissioned by the Mennonite Central Committee .I would be interested what you think about it.
I also like that cookbook and use it often. The pizza crust recipe in that book is the best I've ever tried.
Pennsyltucky, hahaha!! My husband used to say that to the kids all the time to make them laugh! I watched a documentary on the making of Clara's kitchen but haven't gotten the book yet. Thanks for the suggestions.
It would be hard to find ANYone as hard hit by rationing as us during WW2. It's why our dishes don't typically have anywhere near as much Sugar or Cheese as yours. Sugar was in fact still rationed in the late 50's in the UK. The only people who survived well through the hard rationing were people who had a small farm or homestead.
Definitely 3 more cookbooks in the Amazon cart now, thank ya . I think I had the PA Dutch one you showed but I couldn't find it just now so maybe I just recognized it from someone else's collection or something.... I'm old, I forget things! :) Anyway thanks for the video. I feel like skills like the ones taught from those books and ones similar to them will get you a lot further than a lot of folk realize. So maybe I have 3ish months of food stores but when you know how to stretch it that can easily expand to six months.
I did recently stop burning pop-tarts though so well made, frugal & balanced meals are just down the road for me haha! Right? No?
LOL
Thank you so much for your book recommendations; from the 3, I have 2. Totally agree with you on the Victory Cookbook. It's a great choice.
I had a big laugh (thank you for that as well) with "who doesn't like bacon" ! 😀
I have a vast library on different subjects including cooking / food history and I use recipes from them all but the 3 favourites of mine (it was hard to select) and recommending (for frugal meals that would also give you a reflection of a community's history, culture and values, certain periods in history) would be:
1. Jewish Cookery Book by Esther Levy
Originally printed in 1871 and has been reprinted since; technically called Jewish Cookery Book on the Principles of Economy.
it also includes Medicinal Recipes; it’s most notable for being the first Jewish and kosher cookbook published in America.
if I only had one cooking book, this would be it (it's a 'bible' for me and truly a monumental work) this would be it:
2. The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York by Claudia Roden
It's the result of 15 years of traveling around the world and collecting recipes and the stories from where they may have come or been derived from.
3. Grandma's Wartime Kitchen: World War II and the Way We Cooked by Joanne Lamb Hayes
This one really stresses on how not to waste, something that somehow seems to be forgotten by many; if food is highly important, so is the lack of food; many of the recipes only need 4-5 ingredients; it also covers the U.S. government's food rules and ration books, stretching staples and a very informative look at women on the Home Front in the 1940s.
For the first two books, there's definitely no bacon! 😀 But there are awesome sausage recipes where the pork meat is replaced with bread and spices only. (still laughing). 👍🏻
That Rodin cookbook is a gem !
I got all three! I used your links AND got to use Hilton Honors points and that helped you and me!! Yay. Now two of the books were used but I am good with that! Thank you!
YAY! Let us know what you think of them 😊
Jaime do you order bulk foods from amazon? I don't know if it's a good deal?
sure miss you. I look everyday to see if you have posted, but I am a patient man. Look forward to seeing you soon.
LOVE CLARA! Have you seen the videos of her that her grandson (I believe) produced?
+Jasmine Robinson All of them 😉
Jaime I'm originally from York, PA and have that Dutch cookbook! So did your family fight over the crispy skin of the hog maw? We did! Pot pies a fave here. Also scrapple and schnitz and knepp! Yum! Red beet eggs, chow chow..oh man now I need to add stuff to our menu for next week! No one does that sweet sour thing like the PA dutch. My grandpa spoke dutch- mostly when he was cussing at our horses! Thanks for all the great videos- will try to find those other books.
+Kristi Anglen No we didn't fight over the skin lol. Lots of great recipes in there though!
Boveli Schenke, Picallili, now I'm really hungry.
Almost forgot my favorite, Bohne und Spaetzl
I don't know if you have ever seen it before but there's a video series called wartime Farm and you can watch it on RUclips it's a really fabulous series and then they go to other places and do different series as well. Thank you for the great cook book recommendations have a great day.
+Carrie Johnson One of my favorites!
i think pretty much anything from a war or post war era will have some value to it, theyre full of things to make with extremely limited resources (often rationed amounts) which is kind of a cornerstone of prepping imo, its that "what can you do with less" mentality, how far can you stretch a handfull of ingredients and how well can you feed yourself and your family. im partial towards anything to do with jams jellies or preserves, even meat preservation or charcuterie, skills and recepies to keep food for long term, ways to store the bounty that grows in the spring for the much leaner winters.
this video also got me wondering what other kind of books you have in your prepper library, it would be great to see in a video, i think you can always tell a lot about a person from the books they keep.
That is for another video ;0)
We live in York Pa!
OMFG, I've never heard anyone else use the name (I thought I created) Pennsyltucky!!!!! I am from Aliquippa (Allegheny) area, near Pittsburgh. Wow!
Hey Jaime I just got the Victory cookbook from Amazon. I was wondering what were some of your favorite recipes from the book! Thanks!
All the ones in the first book
More-With-Less Cookbook (World Community Cookbook)
:) good choices! I collect cookbooks; Ever heard of the Chicago Daily News Cookbooks ? - these date back to the 1930's / Chicagoland is my home
No I haven't...will have to look it up!
More with Less!!!, A Cabin Full of Food.... two cookbooks that utilize nutrition and frugality ( with a Mennonite influence)
I have both of those and they are AWESOME!
With the worry from north Korea what do you think would be a (step up your game) on prepping. Been prepping for about 5yr. You have some great ideas. Saw this last night..... hard tact made with water salt flour. Make till brown last forever. Used in the civil war. Soak in broth water milk just what ever you had. Your input would be appreciated. Thanks for your super video.
Moving. lol!
Great suggestions!