Those of you who think I shook the salt too long, and put more than a teaspoon.. The salt container had moisture in the top, and it created a salt cap. It was stuck. Hence me shaking a lot.
Thanks to our TN weather. I put rice or crackers in ours, but the humidity still causes the top to do that.. it's kinda funny to see the salt shaker "sweat" you know it's hot. Have an awesome sauce rest of the night 🤗
My mom was born in 1915 and lived on a little farm in Iowa and she said they weren’t super aware of the depression at first because they were already poor and grew almost all their food anyway. Obviously no refrigeration other than an ice box. When she was a newlywed, she said she was running out of ice and didn’t have the .10 to pay for a block but she stuck her ‘Iceman Card’ in the window so he’d stop and deliver a block to her. She prayed about it (my dad was a student in seminary studying to become a pastor) and she said a couple of hours later her neighbor came over and asked if she wanted her partial block of ice since they were having an electric refrigerator delivered that day and didn’t need it. 💕
My granddaddy said the same. They were already so poor and grew all of their own food anyway. They didn’t realize or feel the depression. He and my grandma were both born and raised in Kentucky near Tennessee. Love and miss my sweet grandparents. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
My dear Father born during the beginning of the Depression just passed less than 2 weeks ago. He ate a lot of fried taters. Oatmeal that he called " mush ". Potato pancakes they added a little ground beef to the mix. Cooked bread and stewed tomatoes. For special occasions his favorite wss pork&beans with a hamburger patty which he always wanted on his Birthday. Love & miss you Daddy ❤
My Dad likes bread with stewed tomatoes. He said it was comfort food. I never acquired a taste for it, but I love that he did and I love to see when other people know what that is!❤
I ate stewed tomatoes and bread many times. And no I am not a depression baby but my family was poor and you had to stretch the food so we could all eat
So sorry for your loss. I hope your memories bring you peace. My dad was born just before the depression in 1926. He died in 2014. He was 88. I still miss him so much.
Famous Eleanor quotes. “ no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” “ Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway. “
You’re so right about not thinking you’re better. You don’t know what you might eat until you’re hungry and times are hard. I love you and your attitude.❤
My aunt lived through the depression. She used to make Cornmeal Mush mold it in a bread pan overnight in the refrigerator, slice it, and pan fry serve with maple suyrp on top. Better than pancakes. BEST BREAKFAST EVER !!!!!!
According to google the great depression began in 1929 and ended in 1941. My dad was born in 1939 which means my grandmother had a newborn during this time. She also lost a baby before my dad was born. (He was born in 1930. And lived 9 months ) and I agree with you if our grandparents hadn't been willing to try all these things some of us wouldn't be here. I love this series.
My mom was born in 1926. Her family survived by picking and eating peas from a big field across the road from their house. A kind neighbor planted a large field of peas for all the neighbors.
I was born in 1946. Even though the depression had ended, we still felt the effects of the depression. It was also a time of rebuilding from the war. So many were still dirt poor. I ate many depression meals in my childhood.
My great grandma was born in 1914. They had a lot of cornmeal mush. Which sounds exactly like the milkorno. She used a ton of cornmeal in her cooking and I had many many bowls of “mush”. Sometimes she made it sweet with a pinch of salt and cinnamon and sugar. Sometimes she’d make savory, add bacon grease, sautéed onion and top it with a fried egg.
I love your videos. Fun to watch and brings back memories of when my kids were little. I struggled pretty bad financially but they really were the best of times with my kids.
There is a difference in cornmeal, and cornmeal mix, which is what we buy in stores today. Cornmeal mix already has added ingredients, including salt! Cornmeal from back in the day, was just plain ground corn. That may be why it was too salty. I’m loving your Great Depression series!
There are a lot of great depression meals many eat today...they just don't know they are depression meals. We grew up on a lot of them because they were cheap to eat and I still make them. Bean and ham soup...stuffed peppers...meatloaf...potato soup...those are all great depression meals.
@@shellyturner2766 mine too. But everything we ate was so good. My mom made everything from scratch. We ate great meals...and most of it was great depression era.
My daddy was one of 11 children and his parents were farmers. He was born in 1943 and he was their 8th child. He has talked about some of the meals that they ate. Lots of sweet potatoes and dry beans but a mother who cooked with love!!
My grandparents grew up during the depression era, grandma said they ate nasturtium leaves, and gramps said his mama fed them ketchup sandwiches. Plus they had gardens, chickens and pigs at home. There was a nice lady named Clara, who has passed away now, who has shared on her channel recipes and her stories from that period of her life. She’s adorable, I sure miss her. There was also milkwheato and milkoato, as well as the milkorno.
Mustard sandwiches for us when we had no meat. I would say my bread had sunshine on it. Garden tomatoe and mayo sandwiches were good too. I think it was beefsteak my grandparents grew. Has to be garden grown, store bought tomatoes don't taste the same. We also ate alot of pole beans over corn bread. For desert we had cornbread, milk and cane syrup. My mom recalls only having a cold biscuit filled with cane syrup for school lunch in her bucket. Its sad we are even facing such times again.
Your milkorno is similar to sadza. It’s a staple of many southern African countries. Most of the time we use water rather than milk. It is very nice with peanut butter, or even just plain butter. It is a meal that has stood between people and starvation
@@rivahcat8247 no, that is made from cassava and formed into a sticky dough. Sadza is made from corn meal, and is fundamentally a really thick porridge.
It sounds like Polenta. Which is an Italian food. You can find it in the store, in a firm roll, or powdered. It is yummy fried up with pretty much anything on it. My grandparents lived during the depression, so polenta, and your milkorno was eaten often. 😊
My parents (Daddy- Italian, Mom Lithuanian)would make polenta on weekends with syrup, they’d buy the firm round pkg and cut into circle slices and then pour syrup on top or sometimes marinara “red gravy” as I grew up calling it. I didn’t know what polenta was so I never ate it! I’d eat it now, definitely
I’m a 64-year-old Alabama grandmother and I always used white cornmeal until last year at Thanksgiving to make my cornbread for my dressing. And might I add - it was the best dressing I’ve ever made in my life!!!
My mother started college in 1932. This series reminds me of meals we had growing up. She was a simple woman who grew up in the Appalachians. I miss her terribly, but this reminds me of the good times. Thank you!
I absolutely love this series because I remember these recipes. YES, I remember them as my grandma made them. If you eat Malt O Meal, Grits, and Cream of Wheat, it is similar to those foods. My mom was born in 1932 and my father in 1933. They lived in the dust bowl as well. I vividly remember many of the great depression recipes my grandma cooked and told us about using ration tickets and limited food. Even if you had money, you had to ration food so everyone was in the same boat and why Elenore did the same. EVERYONE rationed!
Grandmother used to make this. She mixed a little homemade Jam or jelly in it. Sometimes she got it real thick cooled it in a loaf pan, sliced it, floured it & fried. Then served it wi th a bit of honey on top
Honestly it was always so weird to me in school learning about the Great Depression and a few other things because my grandmother was born in 1929, my father is the youngest of 9, so I’ve got my grandma living though the Great Depression, my one uncle was at Woodstock, my mother survived a local flood when she was 6, and other kids always thought I was making this stuff up. Both my paternal great grandfathers were actually part of a group of local men who came together with their wives and created the local sale barn/farmers market to help get the entire area through the depression. It’s still going, and it’s so well known that people from out of state come specifically for this. It’s also expanded way beyond anything they ever imagined, I’m sure. I want to try a lot of the depression recipes just to compare to foods I grew up with and see if grandma kept any or did a trick here and there and we just never realized because the food was always good and it was normal for us.
My mother is the youngest of 12 and my father the youngest of 6. Boy does my family have stories! I'd be interested as well. My mother's side of the family unfortunately lost both parents before my mother was 9. The eldest sister adopted the 11 kids and boy when I say they were broke, they were broke! My fathers side had my grandmother a single mother up until recently. 🎉❤ She was an amazing women! I love hearing about others history with big family's as well!
Love great depression meals series. I watched Miss Clara and her meals on you tube. She is no longer with us but her videos are still up. Love your videos and you and your family you always make me smile. ❤
That’s Polenta which is a classic, popular Italian dish. Italian food was not popular and looked at with suspicion during that time period, which is probably why they gave it the name Milkorno and tried to adapt it to the tastes of the time. It’s the Italian version of grits. I make Polenta every so often from a Martha Stewart recipe. My recipe has less milk and includes butter. It’s very good with sausage, peppers and onions.
My grandmother would brown the flour before the liquid, it gives it a nutty flavor. She would ask me to make it when she didn’t feel well, it was comforting for her.
Heck NO our leaders wouldn't eat half of what we do. People would be very surprised what some ate and it was very good. You just had to get creative. That's why I love your videos. You give great ideas that most would never think of. My mom used to talk about eating tomato and butter sandwiches as a kid.
Both my parents lived through the depression. They ate what they grew. One grandparent worked in a dairy so they got deals on that. Meat was very infrequent and stretched. Other grandparents had a milk cow and chickens and they were vegetarian. They ate what they grew or went without. There was never any money for candy or even fruit they didn’t grow. They traded but variety was not a part of their lives. That said, I never heard them talk about eating milkorno. I think in Canada it was home made bread, cream of wheat and oatmeal they ate. There was a wheat mill nearby and my aunts sometimes got work there.
I was born in.Bosnia during a civil war and we ate that too and we pour yougurt over Milkorno and it was so delicious,we also ate stinging nettle as a spinach substitute and our hair was so beautiful also thst plant is so good for iron so we wouldn't get anemia. I LOVE YOUR RECEPIES AND CHANNEL ❤
Brooke my momma was born in 1926 and grew up in the depression her father trapped raccoons and possum’s, buzzards all kinds of meat people today wouldn’t think of eating but my brother caught a possum and momma cooked it up she soaked it in heavily salted water , then boiled it until tender, then put in the oven with BBQ sauce on it for 30 minutes , it was delicious taste like BBQ’d pork, and she raised us eating many depression foods like cornmeal mush, cornmeal gravy, egged biscuits and fried hot water cornbread ! To make the egged biscuits , to make just cut the leftover biscuits open like you were gonna butter it , dip the 1/2 biscuit in beaten egg and fry in a little lard or bacon grease, any left over beaten egg gets poured over the last biscuit 1/2 fried ! The fried hot water cornbread , ( made using only cornmeal and very hot water mixed up about like pancake batter and baked in a cast iron skillet with a couple of TBS of bacon grease in it) you cut in wedges ( sliced pie shape) cut the wedges in 1/2 like you were gonna butter it so you have 2 wedge halves made out of one, fry on both sides until golden brown and crispy, the outside is crispy and the inside is soft and creamy ( us kids use to eat ketchup on our fried cornbread! Both these breads made 2 out if 1 su doubled the amount if bread you had to feed your family! Both breads are delicious with everything especially dried beans and any soup or stew!! We had cornbread in buttermilk or plain milk, we ate a lot of grits, dried beans , and garden veggies, we are boiled macaroni with tomatoes mixed in and wieners sliced in coins fried up and served with the Macaroni and tomatoes , which I still make snd serve today , we also had stewed tomatoes gravy over rice and I still love it with fried pork chops!! I love the depression era menu’s Brooke please keep making them for us!! Aldi cut back on your salt snd make a bacon grease gravy to go Over the Mush/Gruel , it taste pretty good , also you can add a little sugar ( 1-2TBS) in the mush/gruel , or put syrup over it snd it taste good !! Brooke I love your hair cut , it looks beautiful on you!! God bless ❤️🙏🙋🏻🌈🌈
In the White Trash Cookbook II, there's a recipe for preparing possum for a holiday dinner which involves capturing the animal, caging it and feeding it cornbread and milk for 2 weeks, and then butchering it. Supposedly, the cornbread and milk diet would help get rid of a lot of the funky gamey taste it would otherwise have.
I never had milkorno myself but I remember my Dad talking about it. He grew up on it and loved it. Brooke you are a ray of sunshine thanks for sharing 😊
I grew up on all this, my parents were WWII babies and this is how my mama cooked when we were in hard times on top of an old barrel wood stove. I still make myself what we called cornmeal mush which is actually what grits are only they are the ground up left overs of corn chops. Ours were thinner and sometimes my momma would cut up an onion and put tomato juice in it we got from commodities and when it was garden time there may have been some okra in too. She raised 6 kids and, she and my dad on it sometimes every day along with beans and potatoes or gravy and biscuits. Yummy
My mama was born in 1918.. She used to talk about taking left over rice mixing milk sugar and cinnamon raisins if they had them and ate it for breakfast
We had milk and rice. If we were lucky sugar and or cinnamon. My half Korean brother is amazed that I grew up eating this as it's what he grew up eating in a Korean home. South Koreans got some southern in them 😂
I love being able to have things like avocados, but I could live off of potatoes, beans, greens, and whatever is growing in the garden. Grits and toast is one of my favorite breakfasts. I love seeing you make these Great Depression staples.
My grandma told me they ate gruel every day. They added sauted dandelion in the summer or other herbs they grew or foraged. And dandelion and butter sandwiches in the spring and summer.
This is probably the best and most unique Great Depression meal I’ve seen. Usually people just make cheap meals with ingredients we already know. But, making the milkorno/gruel and using those recipes really took it up a notch!
I wonder how that milkorno mush would be fried like little potato cakes we make with left over mashed potatoes. Those biscuits look amazing! I bet shredded extra sharp cheddar would be great added to those!
My mother used to make it for us she also made rocks to that's what they ate and the depression and you're right no one should knock it because there is going to come a time when we all head to do what we got to do to feed our and ourselves to survive great job
I’m fascinated with the history & lore of the Great Depression…my mother was born in 1933 & when my grandmother babysat me… I was given some Great Depression meals by my grandmother… I remember bread & butter with sugar sprinkled on top… that was considered a treat… boiled dinner… cabbage, carrots, and potatoes with a ham bone… I liked it! Macaroni & peas… tomato soup with rice… Just a few things I can remember ❤
My Mammy Becher made this and called it Cornmeal Mush . She made it after supper, let it cool overnight, the next morning she would slice it and fry in the bacon grease . My Pappy loved it . Had fried eggs and thicken gravy with it . This was in the 50's . Good memories. ❤❤❤
#1-those biscuits looked really good. #2-I have never seen white cornmeal. #3-you are so right people have no idea what they would do in a desperate state. Just look at what happened during Covid, people ran out and bought all the toilet paper!
I make and eat regularly Cream of Wheat, which looks very similar to this. I put a pat of butter, some brown sugar, and milk. I also cook it with raisins, but I could eat it without all that stuff if I had to. I'm blessed I don't have to, but I could and would totally eat this and feed my family with this if I had to.
This sounds very much like what my grandmother called cornmeal mush. We grew up eating it fried for breakfast. Grandma would make it the day before, add grummbled cooked sausage, and chill overnight in a loaf pan. Then, cut into slices and fry it up the next day for breakfast.
Hi Brooke , Dusty and boys I am definitely going to make the biscuits and apple Betty for sure Thank you for sharing this with us and giving us the list of ingredients to make the recipes. Thank you Brooke , for all your hard work putting these videos together for us to help feed our selves and families. Sending lots and love of hugs , love , blessings and countless prayers 🙏❤️
Poor Brayden! It may be good by refrigerating it in a loaf pan until solid, slice it, and dredge it in flour and pan fry it. Maybe with syrup drizzled over it?
My grandparents were born in the 1910s and 1920s. I know they had to survive in those days. So I have a very high respect for the lives from the great depression ❤❤❤❤❤
This is a great series Brooke I am learning so much I had grand parents that were raised in the great depression so this is interesting I know my grandpa would hunt squirrels and made squirrel stew they lived in the smoky mountains here in Tennessee. Looking forward to what you have for the next vlog
To me, that sounds like what we referred to in the south as cornmeal mush and when I was young I remember my grandfather used to like to eat that a lot. I have eaten it but I can't say that it was the best thing I ever ate but it works if you're hungry
My mom made that and called it mush. Only we did not use the powdered milk. Just a pinch of salt and once it was cooked we added a little brown sugar and a touch of regular milk. It was such a good treat/cereal in the cold weather. Also boil it down (stir constantly) then pour into a loaf pan. Chill overnight. Then slice, fry and serve with pancake syrup or maple syrup. One of my families favorite breakfasts! Also I always use white cornmeal, but I can’t hardly find it anymore!
It’s probably “ bad” if that’s the only thing you can eat for weeks/months on end. I really enjoy this series you’re doing Brooke this is so educational (and entertaining of course) 💞
I love this series! We eat a lot of things in present day that were The Great Depression recipes or inspired by those recipes. My parents were both born during the great depression, I was born in the 60s I grew up eating food that was recipes from The Great Depression era and did not know it at that time. I now fix those same dishes and love them! This is the first time though that I have heard of milkorno. I'll have to give these a try!
Oh I forgot to mention, a fantastic movie to watch is Cinderella Man starring Russell Crowe and Rene Zegweller. It takes place during the Great Depression and a true story. Another great one is Seabisquit. Starring Jeff Bridges and Toby McGuier and also a true story and takes place during the Great Depression. Both films are family friendly and excellent.
I had seen a documentary on Eleanor Roosevelt and she also was the first First Lady to have C-sections while her husband was in office. I thought that was very awesome that she didn’t just suggest people do something she wouldn’t do. She definitely was a very special lady.
I make a corn mush topper (corn meal water, salt and butter cooked to very thick) for my Tamale Pie made by my mother for 40 years and I made it for my family 20 years. This is almost the same as this Milkorno that I have never heard of but no milk in it.
My daddy was born in 1928 and was one of 9 on a farm in South GA. Mama in 1929, one of four in small town GA. They got married soon as daddy got out of the service. Even then, times were really hard for them for several years. They knew so many ways to stretch a penny. I came in the late 50s, things were better but we still lived the old way. We moved around the country bc of daddy's job, people loved to eat at our house cause of my mama's good southern country cooking. I still eat grits almost every day.
I grew up on,and still eat,corn meal mush. Corn meal made in water. My mom would make it and add butter and cheese from government surplus. I will try milkcorno. Thank you Brooke❤
I am *so* glad you are doing this. I remember people in my family who'd lived through the Depression talking about how they ate, and many still fell back on the recipes as comfort food. Might I suggest for your next go around (if you decide to do this sort of thing again) WWII rationing recipes?
It all looks delicious!! Amazing! I’m really excited about this depression cooking you are doing. It’s too bad that these old recipes went by the way side😢 Everything today has so many preservatives in them, you never know what your eating. 💕🙏🙏 ……. BTW, I LOVE YOUR HAIR COLOR!! I was a beautician for yrs. You can’t believe how many younger people today, PAY BIG BUCKS, To have their hair bleached/colored like yours!!! Your a beautiful young woman and right in fashion ❤
Love that you try different things, to show others. If we did not learn from the older folks, none of us would be here or know much. My family had green tomatoes pies and tomato soup cake
I loved the look on Brooke's face when she tasted the Milkorno with tomato sauce! Someone might have said this already. I think the Milkorno recipe calls for plain cornmeal, not cornmeal mix. That could account for Brooke's turning out too salty since the mix includes salt and the baking soda (or powder. Can't remember which). Some mixes also have flour in them.
Hey you southern belle you are so cute I watch you all the time I'm 63 years old I'm from Hawaii but I live in Sacramento California I was raised here and cornmeal mush my dad is full blooded Polynesian my mother is White I always ate it as hot cereal if we didn't have no oatmeal we didn't have no cream of wheat and even when I got married 21 years ago sometimes we were on a budget we still are on a budget right now today we buy it cornmeal and have cornmeal mush and toast in the morning post to cream of wheat cause cream of wheat sometimes it's too expensive for my budget I'm 63 my husband is 67 we're retired and sometimes you know we still have to help family and we're on the budget love you and your family you keep on putting your videos out there and to whoever said something smart to you or ignorant to you just overlooked them they don't know what a jewel you are much aloha from Sacramento California from this Grandma tutu my name is Debbie I'll be watching you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😘
That's the same recipe I used to make corn muffins or corn bread. Also, I used the same recipe to make cornmeal dressing with added seasoning and the gizzards to stuff a turkey for Thanksgiving.
I love using dry milk in my baking especially if you don't have enough milk I had found a wheat bread recipe that call for it an a pizza recipe. My husband said that the pizza recipe that I had found is the best one we've try going out to different pizza store but sense I found the pizza hut recipe we really like that one with dry milk. Dry help stretch your ingredients especially if you don't have enough milk in your fridge.
Sounds like the Polenta I learned to make from my Northern Italian in-laws, which is cornmeal mush made with a little butter, salt and milk. It’s delicious. Leftovers are good sliced and fried.
My Daddy was born in 1930 and Moma in 36 so they ate depression era foods. Corn was cheap in the country. We ate cornmeal mush a lot growing up but it was made with real milk not powdered and topped with Sorgum syrup, molasses or honey. Moma's mother was a widow with 6 kids. Daddys parents were farmers with 9 kids so they were poor. Daddy worked any job he could find and for meat we ate anything he brought home, squirrel, rabbit, coon, possum, turtle ect. They raised a hog and put it up every year. The only time we ate chicken was when they got old and quit laying.
My Grandfather would make a big pot of oatmeal....the next day he would fry any leftover in some butter in the cast iron skillet and top with maple syrup. Tasty
Those of you who think I shook the salt too long, and put more than a teaspoon.. The salt container had moisture in the top, and it created a salt cap. It was stuck. Hence me shaking a lot.
The container is our salt shaker at the house . I end up doing that alot
Damn honey. I'm sorry they nit pick the shit out of you.
What the heck is wrong with people? Do they have to pick apart every little thing?!???🙄
Thanks to our TN weather. I put rice or crackers in ours, but the humidity still causes the top to do that.. it's kinda funny to see the salt shaker "sweat" you know it's hot. Have an awesome sauce rest of the night 🤗
Great video! Love you and your down-home cooking. I would add butter and maple syrup or honey to the cooked milkorno.
My mom was born in 1915 and lived on a little farm in Iowa and she said they weren’t super aware of the depression at first because they were already poor and grew almost all their food anyway. Obviously no refrigeration other than an ice box. When she was a newlywed, she said she was running out of ice and didn’t have the .10 to pay for a block but she stuck her ‘Iceman Card’ in the window so he’d stop and deliver a block to her. She prayed about it (my dad was a student in seminary studying to become a pastor) and she said a couple of hours later her neighbor came over and asked if she wanted her partial block of ice since they were having an electric refrigerator delivered that day and didn’t need it. 💕
The power in prayer. ❤️
God is good! ❤
My granddaddy said the same. They were already so poor and grew all of their own food anyway. They didn’t realize or feel the depression. He and my grandma were both born and raised in Kentucky near Tennessee. Love and miss my sweet grandparents. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
My grandmother was born in 1912
Great story 💖
My dear Father born during the beginning of the Depression just passed less than 2 weeks ago. He ate a lot of fried taters. Oatmeal that he called " mush ". Potato pancakes they added a little ground beef to the mix. Cooked bread and stewed tomatoes. For special occasions his favorite wss pork&beans with a hamburger patty which he always wanted on his Birthday. Love & miss you Daddy ❤
My Dad likes bread with stewed tomatoes. He said it was comfort food. I never acquired a taste for it, but I love that he did and I love to see when other people know what that is!❤
I ate stewed tomatoes and bread many times. And no I am not a depression baby but my family was poor and you had to stretch the food so we could all eat
Stewed tomatoes with bread is one of my favorite things to eat.
Love it with cornbread. ((((HUGS))))
So sorry for your loss. I hope your memories bring you peace.
My dad was born just before the depression in 1926. He died in 2014. He was 88. I still miss him so much.
Famous Eleanor quotes. “ no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” “ Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway. “
She was a precious lady.
I love these quotes ❤ thank you!
I love the first quote, told my daughter that when she was growing up!
She was the backbone of the country imho.
She married her cousin so .. 😮
You’re so right about not thinking you’re better. You don’t know what you might eat until you’re hungry and times are hard. I love you and your attitude.❤
My aunt lived through the depression. She used to make Cornmeal Mush mold it in a bread pan overnight in the refrigerator, slice it, and pan fry serve with maple suyrp on top. Better than pancakes. BEST BREAKFAST EVER !!!!!!
My dad and my sister loved fried mush.
Mine did too
My grandmother made this also. We ate it with a little syrup. I thought it was something special she made for us. Delicious!
Sounds good with frying and syrup.
I still make that today. I think of it as poor man's polenta.
According to google the great depression began in 1929 and ended in 1941. My dad was born in 1939 which means my grandmother had a newborn during this time. She also lost a baby before my dad was born. (He was born in 1930. And lived 9 months ) and I agree with you if our grandparents hadn't been willing to try all these things some of us wouldn't be here. I love this series.
My dad was born in 1933. They even made cornmeal gravy
My mom was born in 1926. Her family survived by picking and eating peas from a big field across the road from their house. A kind neighbor planted a large field of peas for all the neighbors.
I was born in 1946. Even though the depression had ended, we still felt the effects of the depression. It was also a time of rebuilding from the war. So many were still dirt poor. I ate many depression meals in my childhood.
My great grandma was born in 1914. They had a lot of cornmeal mush. Which sounds exactly like the milkorno. She used a ton of cornmeal in her cooking and I had many many bowls of “mush”. Sometimes she made it sweet with a pinch of salt and cinnamon and sugar. Sometimes she’d make savory, add bacon grease, sautéed onion and top it with a fried egg.
YUM
I love your videos. Fun to watch and brings back memories of when my kids were little. I struggled pretty bad financially but they really were the best of times with my kids.
There is a difference in cornmeal, and cornmeal mix, which is what we buy in stores today. Cornmeal mix already has added ingredients, including salt! Cornmeal from back in the day, was just plain ground corn. That may be why it was too salty. I’m loving your Great Depression series!
There are a lot of great depression meals many eat today...they just don't know they are depression meals. We grew up on a lot of them because they were cheap to eat and I still make them. Bean and ham soup...stuffed peppers...meatloaf...potato soup...those are all great depression meals.
Your list sounds like my mom's weekly menu plan from when I was growing up in the 60's. My parents were born in the depression era. 😊
@@shellyturner2766 mine too. But everything we ate was so good. My mom made everything from scratch. We ate great meals...and most of it was great depression era.
My daddy was one of 11 children and his parents were farmers. He was born in 1943 and he was their 8th child. He has talked about some of the meals that they ate. Lots of sweet potatoes and dry beans but a mother who cooked with love!!
My Dad was born in 36 and the baby of 8 on a farm in midwest...we should all be very grateful!;)
My grandparents grew up during the depression era, grandma said they ate nasturtium leaves, and gramps said his mama fed them ketchup sandwiches. Plus they had gardens, chickens and pigs at home.
There was a nice lady named Clara, who has passed away now, who has shared on her channel recipes and her stories from that period of her life. She’s adorable, I sure miss her.
There was also milkwheato and milkoato, as well as the milkorno.
Clara was the bomb! Loved watching her videos!!!
Nasturtium are quite tasty. A bit peppery. Edible flowers are the bomb.
I love Clara ❤ I go back and rewatch her video's cause I love the stories (experiences) she'd share ❤❤❤
I loves Clara also
Mustard sandwiches for us when we had no meat. I would say my bread had sunshine on it. Garden tomatoe and mayo sandwiches were good too. I think it was beefsteak my grandparents grew. Has to be garden grown, store bought tomatoes don't taste the same. We also ate alot of pole beans over corn bread. For desert we had cornbread, milk and cane syrup. My mom recalls only having a cold biscuit filled with cane syrup for school lunch in her bucket. Its sad we are even facing such times again.
Your milkorno is similar to sadza. It’s a staple of many southern African countries. Most of the time we use water rather than milk. It is very nice with peanut butter, or even just plain butter. It is a meal that has stood between people and starvation
Is it similar to fufu? I've read about that as a staple accompaniment to African meals.
@@rivahcat8247 no, that is made from cassava and formed into a sticky dough. Sadza is made from corn meal, and is fundamentally a really thick porridge.
It sounds like Polenta. Which is an Italian food. You can find it in the store, in a firm roll, or powdered. It is yummy fried up with pretty much anything on it. My grandparents lived during the depression, so polenta, and your milkorno was eaten often. 😊
My parents (Daddy- Italian, Mom Lithuanian)would make polenta on weekends with syrup, they’d buy the firm round pkg and cut into circle slices and then pour syrup on top or sometimes marinara “red gravy” as I grew up calling it. I didn’t know what polenta was so I never ate it! I’d eat it now, definitely
@stephaniepapaleo9001 My Italian family ate it often too. Now I want some. 😉
@@rebeckia2902 we need someone to fry or bake some up for us on a nice weekend morning 😝
I’m a 64-year-old Alabama grandmother and I always used white cornmeal until last year at Thanksgiving to make my cornbread for my dressing. And might I add - it was the best dressing I’ve ever made in my life!!!
My mother started college in 1932. This series reminds me of meals we had growing up. She was a simple woman who grew up in the Appalachians. I miss her terribly, but this reminds me of the good times. Thank you!
I absolutely love this series because I remember these recipes. YES, I remember them as my grandma made them. If you eat Malt O Meal, Grits, and Cream of Wheat, it is similar to those foods. My mom was born in 1932 and my father in 1933. They lived in the dust bowl as well. I vividly remember many of the great depression recipes my grandma cooked and told us about using ration tickets and limited food. Even if you had money, you had to ration food so everyone was in the same boat and why Elenore did the same. EVERYONE rationed!
When I first seen it, I thought of Malt-O-Meal, as well.
Yup my grandmother born in 33 raised me on cream of wheat. Malt o meal was only once when she got it on sale.
I still love a bowl of cream of wheat !
Love malt o meal!
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Grandmother used to make this. She mixed a little homemade Jam or jelly in it. Sometimes she got it real thick cooled it in a loaf pan, sliced it, floured it & fried. Then served it wi th a bit of honey on top
Honestly it was always so weird to me in school learning about the Great Depression and a few other things because my grandmother was born in 1929, my father is the youngest of 9, so I’ve got my grandma living though the Great Depression, my one uncle was at Woodstock, my mother survived a local flood when she was 6, and other kids always thought I was making this stuff up.
Both my paternal great grandfathers were actually part of a group of local men who came together with their wives and created the local sale barn/farmers market to help get the entire area through the depression. It’s still going, and it’s so well known that people from out of state come specifically for this. It’s also expanded way beyond anything they ever imagined, I’m sure.
I want to try a lot of the depression recipes just to compare to foods I grew up with and see if grandma kept any or did a trick here and there and we just never realized because the food was always good and it was normal for us.
My mother is the youngest of 12 and my father the youngest of 6. Boy does my family have stories! I'd be interested as well. My mother's side of the family unfortunately lost both parents before my mother was 9. The eldest sister adopted the 11 kids and boy when I say they were broke, they were broke! My fathers side had my grandmother a single mother up until recently. 🎉❤ She was an amazing women! I love hearing about others history with big family's as well!
Love mush fried with syrup on it!
I was thinking...those biscuits with GRAVY!! My major food group is biscuits and gravy!!
Love great depression meals series. I watched Miss Clara and her meals on you tube. She is no longer with us but her videos are still up. Love your videos and you and your family you always make me smile. ❤
That’s Polenta which is a classic, popular Italian dish. Italian food was not popular and looked at with suspicion during that time period, which is probably why they gave it the name Milkorno and tried to adapt it to the tastes of the time. It’s the Italian version of grits. I make Polenta every so often from a Martha Stewart recipe. My recipe has less milk and includes butter. It’s very good with sausage, peppers and onions.
My grandmother would serve it with tomato sauce that had Italian sausage in it. She would layer it.
My grandmother would brown the flour before the liquid, it gives it a nutty flavor. She would ask me to make it when she didn’t feel well, it was comforting for her.
This series ROCKS! It reminds each of us how luck we are and how we can "find a way" even with inflation. WELL DONE!!
Heck NO our leaders wouldn't eat half of what we do. People would be very surprised what some ate and it was very good. You just had to get creative. That's why I love your videos. You give great ideas that most would never think of. My mom used to talk about eating tomato and butter sandwiches as a kid.
I still do...LOVE tomato sandwiches!!!
We the tax payers pay for their generous food allotments they get .
Both my parents lived through the depression. They ate what they grew. One grandparent worked in a dairy so they got deals on that. Meat was very infrequent and stretched. Other grandparents had a milk cow and chickens and they were vegetarian. They ate what they grew or went without. There was never any money for candy or even fruit they didn’t grow. They traded but variety was not a part of their lives. That said, I never heard them talk about eating milkorno. I think in Canada it was home made bread, cream of wheat and oatmeal they ate. There was a wheat mill nearby and my aunts sometimes got work there.
I was born in.Bosnia during a civil war and we ate that too and we pour yougurt over Milkorno and it was so delicious,we also ate stinging nettle as a spinach substitute and our hair was so beautiful also thst plant is so good for iron so we wouldn't get anemia. I LOVE YOUR RECEPIES AND CHANNEL ❤
Brooke my momma was born in 1926 and grew up in the depression her father trapped raccoons and possum’s, buzzards all kinds of meat people today wouldn’t think of eating but my brother caught a possum and momma cooked it up she soaked it in heavily salted water , then boiled it until tender, then put in the oven with BBQ sauce on it for 30 minutes , it was delicious taste like BBQ’d pork, and she raised us eating many depression foods like cornmeal mush, cornmeal gravy, egged biscuits and fried hot water cornbread ! To make the egged biscuits , to make just cut the leftover biscuits open like you were gonna butter it , dip the 1/2 biscuit in beaten egg and fry in a little lard or bacon grease, any left over beaten egg gets poured over the last biscuit 1/2 fried ! The fried hot water cornbread , ( made using only cornmeal and very hot water mixed up about like pancake batter and baked in a cast iron skillet with a couple of TBS of bacon grease in it) you cut in wedges ( sliced pie shape) cut the wedges in 1/2 like you were gonna butter it so you have 2 wedge halves made out of one, fry on both sides until golden brown and crispy, the outside is crispy and the inside is soft and creamy ( us kids use to eat ketchup on our fried cornbread! Both these breads made 2 out if 1 su doubled the amount if bread you had to feed your family! Both breads are delicious with everything especially dried beans and any soup or stew!! We had cornbread in buttermilk or plain milk, we ate a lot of grits, dried beans , and garden veggies, we are boiled macaroni with tomatoes mixed in and wieners sliced in coins fried up and served with the Macaroni and tomatoes , which I still make snd serve today , we also had stewed tomatoes gravy over rice and I still love it with fried pork chops!! I love the depression era menu’s Brooke please keep making them for us!! Aldi cut back on your salt snd make a bacon grease gravy to go Over the Mush/Gruel , it taste pretty good , also you can add a little sugar ( 1-2TBS) in the mush/gruel , or put syrup over it snd it taste good !! Brooke I love your hair cut , it looks beautiful on you!! God bless ❤️🙏🙋🏻🌈🌈
In the White Trash Cookbook II, there's a recipe for preparing possum for a holiday dinner which involves capturing the animal, caging it and feeding it cornbread and milk for 2 weeks, and then butchering it. Supposedly, the cornbread and milk diet would help get rid of a lot of the funky gamey taste it would otherwise have.
I never had milkorno myself but I remember my Dad talking about it. He grew up on it and loved it. Brooke you are a ray of sunshine thanks for sharing 😊
I grew up on all this, my parents were WWII babies and this is how my mama cooked when we were in hard times on top of an old barrel wood stove. I still make myself what we called cornmeal mush which is actually what grits are only they are the ground up left overs of corn chops. Ours were thinner and sometimes my momma would cut up an onion and put tomato juice in it we got from commodities and when it was garden time there may have been some okra in too. She raised 6 kids and, she and my dad on it sometimes every day along with beans and potatoes or gravy and biscuits. Yummy
Love this series!!!! Makes me think of how my Granny lived as a child, she was born in 1925 ❤❤
The saddest thing I’m getting from this video is the fact that I have all of these ingredients in my kitchen 😮 That’s also a great thing too!
I hope you can count this as part of your home schooling program for your kids. I sure am enjoying this! Thank you!
I’m from Ithaca,NY where Cornell University is and I believe Milkorno evolved to be a cheap breakfast cereal, like cream of wheat or a polenta 🦋
My mama was born in 1918.. She used to talk about taking left over rice mixing milk sugar and cinnamon raisins if they had them and ate it for breakfast
We had milk and rice. If we were lucky sugar and or cinnamon. My half Korean brother is amazed that I grew up eating this as it's what he grew up eating in a Korean home. South Koreans got some southern in them 😂
I eat this minus the cinnamon and raisins. I eat it warm with a little butter!
I love being able to have things like avocados, but I could live off of potatoes, beans, greens, and whatever is growing in the garden. Grits and toast is one of my favorite breakfasts. I love seeing you make these Great Depression staples.
I would love to see a series on meals during rationed times as well.
My grandma told me they ate gruel every day. They added sauted dandelion in the summer or other herbs they grew or foraged. And dandelion and butter sandwiches in the spring and summer.
This is probably the best and most unique Great Depression meal I’ve seen. Usually people just make cheap meals with ingredients we already know. But, making the milkorno/gruel and using those recipes really took it up a notch!
I would call Milkorno instant grits today, lol. She was indeed awesome, we have NO leaders now. You still rock, despite current truth suppression.
I wonder how that milkorno mush would be fried like little potato cakes we make with left over mashed potatoes. Those biscuits look amazing! I bet shredded extra sharp cheddar would be great added to those!
My mother used to make it for us she also made rocks to that's what they ate and the depression and you're right no one should knock it because there is going to come a time when we all head to do what we got to do to feed our and ourselves to survive great job
Yes depression was 1929. The year my grandmother had twins.
I’m fascinated with the history & lore of the Great Depression…my mother was born in 1933 & when my grandmother babysat me… I was given some Great Depression meals by my grandmother… I remember bread & butter with sugar sprinkled on top… that was considered a treat… boiled dinner… cabbage, carrots, and potatoes with a ham bone… I liked it! Macaroni & peas… tomato soup with rice… Just a few things I can remember ❤
It looks a lot like polenta.. which is delicious!! And can be prepared so many ways!
Polenta is cornmeal. I'm in England 🇬🇧 and was trying to buy cornmeal and I couldn't until I googled it and found out we call it Polenta.
Gravy train, I’ve never heard of my identity being linked to the color of cornmeal! Thank you for your research.
Ooh! Now I want you to share your Mamaw's Tater Mater Soup!!
Moms tater mater soup with cornbread is awesome. We completely wipe it up when she makes it.
Beans,taters and mush raised the Nation. Great video Thanks for sharing.
You made mush,which later became CREAM OF WHEAT. Add sugar,milk and butter and it taste great !
Hard times mean it's time to think outside the box for food.
My Mammy Becher made this and called it Cornmeal Mush . She made it after supper, let it cool overnight, the next morning she would slice it and fry in the bacon grease . My Pappy loved it . Had fried eggs and thicken gravy with it . This was in the 50's . Good memories. ❤❤❤
Thanks for a little history lesson along with the meals. It was nice to hear that Eleanor Roosevelt provided ideas for recipes using Malkorn.
I’ve was raised in E Tennessee. Knoxville in fact, I’ve never seen anyone use white cornmeal. It’s funny how did families do things so differently
#1-those biscuits looked really good. #2-I have never seen white cornmeal. #3-you are so right people have no idea what they would do in a desperate state. Just look at what happened during Covid, people ran out and bought all the toilet paper!
I make and eat regularly Cream of Wheat, which looks very similar to this. I put a pat of butter, some brown sugar, and milk. I also cook it with raisins, but I could eat it without all that stuff if I had to. I'm blessed I don't have to, but I could and would totally eat this and feed my family with this if I had to.
Cornmeal mush is not a bad thing unless you eat it constantly. 😀 Good research!
This sounds very much like what my grandmother called cornmeal mush. We grew up eating it fried for breakfast. Grandma would make it the day before, add grummbled cooked sausage, and chill overnight in a loaf pan. Then, cut into slices and fry it up the next day for breakfast.
Hi Brooke , Dusty and boys
I am definitely going to make the biscuits and apple Betty for sure
Thank you for sharing this with us and giving us the list of ingredients to make the recipes. Thank you Brooke , for all your hard work putting these videos together for us to help feed our selves and families. Sending lots and love of hugs , love , blessings and countless prayers 🙏❤️
Poor Brayden! It may be good by refrigerating it in a loaf pan until solid, slice it, and dredge it in flour and pan fry it. Maybe with syrup drizzled over it?
I had never heard of Milkorno. Looks good! Such a versatile product. Thank you for the entertaining history lesson! :)
I am obsessed with how people fed their families during the depression, I want to know everything lol.
This is my all time favorite video and series. Keep up the Depression recipes. DEF gonna give Milkorno a go !
My grandparents were born in the 1910s and 1920s. I know they had to survive in those days. So I have a very high respect for the lives from the great depression ❤❤❤❤❤
This is a great series Brooke I am learning so much I had grand parents that were raised in the great depression so this is interesting I know my grandpa would hunt squirrels and made squirrel stew they lived in the smoky mountains here in Tennessee. Looking forward to what you have for the next vlog
To me, that sounds like what we referred to in the south as cornmeal mush and when I was young I remember my grandfather used to like to eat that a lot. I have eaten it but I can't say that it was the best thing I ever ate but it works if you're hungry
Brooke
Thank you for sharing these depression recipes. Very interested in learning more from this era. Biscuits looked delicious.
My mom made that and called it mush. Only we did not use the powdered milk. Just a pinch of salt and once it was cooked we added a little brown sugar and a touch of regular milk. It was such a good treat/cereal in the cold weather. Also boil it down (stir constantly) then pour into a loaf pan. Chill overnight. Then slice, fry and serve with pancake syrup or maple syrup. One of my families favorite breakfasts!
Also I always use white cornmeal, but I can’t hardly find it anymore!
❤❤❤ great information. People who say things have never been with out food.
It’s probably “ bad” if that’s the only thing you can eat for weeks/months on end. I really enjoy this series you’re doing Brooke this is so educational (and entertaining of course) 💞
Today, people are so spoiled from what they eat. They don't know what it's like from back then what they had to eat
I love this series! We eat a lot of things in present day that were The Great Depression recipes or inspired by those recipes. My parents were both born during the great depression, I was born in the 60s I grew up eating food that was recipes from The Great Depression era and did not know it at that time. I now fix those same dishes and love them! This is the first time though that I have heard of milkorno. I'll have to give these a try!
My grandma would make 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies , the cookie jar was always full and me and my 7 siblings loved them !
I make them now! One egg, one cup of Dollar Tree peanut butter and one cup sugar. Best not using the fancy peanut and salt only peanut butter!
Oh I forgot to mention, a fantastic movie to watch is Cinderella Man starring Russell Crowe and Rene Zegweller. It takes place during the Great Depression and a true story. Another great one is Seabisquit. Starring Jeff Bridges and Toby McGuier and also a true story and takes place during the Great Depression. Both films are family friendly and excellent.
I had seen a documentary on Eleanor Roosevelt and she also was the first First Lady to have C-sections while her husband was in office. I thought that was very awesome that she didn’t just suggest people do something she wouldn’t do. She definitely was a very special lady.
My grandmother always added bread or crackers sometimes an egg to hamburgers to make them stretch they still are best hamburger I've ever ate.
Well, now y’all have to share memaw’s tater-mater soup recipe. Please and thank you. 😊
Yes! Would love to hear it!
Cornbread with milk is what my grandparents ate for a lot of meals. Love it with buttermilk. So milkkorno sounds a little like that.
I make a corn mush topper (corn meal water, salt and butter cooked to very thick) for my Tamale Pie made by my mother for 40 years and I made it for my family 20 years. This is almost the same as this Milkorno that I have never heard of but no milk in it.
My daddy was born in 1928 and was one of 9 on a farm in South GA. Mama in 1929, one of four in small town GA. They got married soon as daddy got out of the service. Even then, times were really hard for them for several years. They knew so many ways to stretch a penny. I came in the late 50s, things were better but we still lived the old way. We moved around the country bc of daddy's job, people loved to eat at our house cause of my mama's good southern country cooking. I still eat grits almost every day.
Brooke, you are awesome!!!! Thanks for making these videos to help folks out. Sending love and prayers to you and yours!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Hey Brooke. Can you please do a video making your grandma's mater tator soup? Sounds like a delicious frugal meal.
Mom/ Brooke’s mamaw makes the absolute best tater mater soup with her homemade cornbread and she cooks like Brooke, no recipe no measurements.
I grew up on,and still eat,corn meal mush. Corn meal made in water. My mom would make it and add butter and cheese from government surplus. I will try milkcorno. Thank you Brooke❤
I am *so* glad you are doing this. I remember people in my family who'd lived through the Depression talking about how they ate, and many still fell back on the recipes as comfort food. Might I suggest for your next go around (if you decide to do this sort of thing again) WWII rationing recipes?
I have a great deal of respect for depression food or economical meals and desserts. God Bless you Bestie!!!
I just started watching ur channel Brooke and I'm here to say that I appreciate what you do girl. I am learning so much from you so thank you!😊❤
It all looks delicious!! Amazing! I’m really excited about this depression cooking you are doing. It’s too bad that these old recipes went by the way side😢 Everything today has so many preservatives in them, you never know what your eating. 💕🙏🙏 ……. BTW, I LOVE YOUR HAIR COLOR!! I was a beautician for yrs. You can’t believe how many younger people today, PAY BIG BUCKS, To have their hair bleached/colored like yours!!! Your a beautiful young woman and right in fashion ❤
Love that you try different things, to show others. If we did not learn from the older folks, none of us would be here or know much. My family had green tomatoes pies and tomato soup cake
I loved the look on Brooke's face when she tasted the Milkorno with tomato sauce!
Someone might have said this already. I think the Milkorno recipe calls for plain cornmeal, not cornmeal mix. That could account for Brooke's turning out too salty since the mix includes salt and the baking soda (or powder. Can't remember which). Some mixes also have flour in them.
Love your hair at that length! And these videos are perfect for the times. Thanks.
Hey you southern belle you are so cute I watch you all the time I'm 63 years old I'm from Hawaii but I live in Sacramento California I was raised here and cornmeal mush my dad is full blooded Polynesian my mother is White I always ate it as hot cereal if we didn't have no oatmeal we didn't have no cream of wheat and even when I got married 21 years ago sometimes we were on a budget we still are on a budget right now today we buy it cornmeal and have cornmeal mush and toast in the morning post to cream of wheat cause cream of wheat sometimes it's too expensive for my budget I'm 63 my husband is 67 we're retired and sometimes you know we still have to help family and we're on the budget love you and your family you keep on putting your videos out there and to whoever said something smart to you or ignorant to you just overlooked them they don't know what a jewel you are much aloha from Sacramento California from this Grandma tutu my name is Debbie I'll be watching you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😘
Loved the history lesson!! Interesting and informative!! You are a precious gem, too!!
Loving your hair girl!
Love this series. I've been looking and saving recipes from this era. Could you please add baking time and degree on your recipes.
That's the same recipe I used to make corn muffins or corn bread. Also, I used the same recipe to make cornmeal dressing with added seasoning and the gizzards to stuff a turkey for Thanksgiving.
I love using dry milk in my baking especially if you don't have enough milk I had found a wheat bread recipe that call for it an a pizza recipe. My husband said that the pizza recipe that I had found is the best one we've try going out to different pizza store but sense I found the pizza hut recipe we really like that one with dry milk. Dry help stretch your ingredients especially if you don't have enough milk in your fridge.
Thanks for the history lesson about Eleanor Roosevelt and milkorno! So interesting. Those biscuits definitely looked AMAZEBALLS!
Sounds like the Polenta I learned to make from my Northern Italian in-laws, which is cornmeal mush made with a little butter, salt and milk. It’s delicious. Leftovers are good sliced and fried.
My Daddy was born in 1930 and Moma in 36 so they ate depression era foods. Corn was cheap in the country. We ate cornmeal mush a lot growing up but it was made with real milk not powdered and topped with Sorgum syrup, molasses or honey. Moma's mother was a widow with 6 kids. Daddys parents were farmers with 9 kids so they were poor. Daddy worked any job he could find and for meat we ate anything he brought home, squirrel, rabbit, coon, possum, turtle ect. They raised a hog and put it up every year. The only time we ate chicken was when they got old and quit laying.
My Grandfather would make a big pot of oatmeal....the next day he would fry any leftover in some butter in the cast iron skillet and top with maple syrup. Tasty
Try it with butter and sugar . I used to eat this when times were hard growing up. We call it corn meal mush