Food For Thought (1949)
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- Опубликовано: 24 май 2016
- Thanks to her home economics class, a girl is able to talk her old-fashioned mother into cooking the modern way--with a pressure cooker! Starring Spring Byington from Little Women and Connie Marshall from Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House.
For more on vintage cooking and other home economies, try these links:
• 1957 Sour Cream Cookbook
• Maine Barbecue (1953) 
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Age 67, still recall my Home Economics classes. Cooking, Sewing and Etiquette. I couldn't walk without that darn book on my head falling, but I could cook like Betty Crocker and set a table for a dinner party like Martha Stewart !
🙏🙏🌹🌹MEMORIES:THEY NEVER EVER LEAVE US😉😉
As someone born in the 50's, I am a sucker for these vintage videos, they are like a walk back in time. ☺
I know....wish I could travel in time back there!
I was born in 1969, and I adore them!!
‘73 here, and I love them too! Relaxing and a trip back in time 💖
Me too, reminds me of my mom.
you’re lucky! i love the 50s era! i wish i was born in the 50s 😭 i study the 50s and 60s
Can we all take a moment to appreciate that sink? In the mid-90s we lived in a house with a similar, fabulous vintage kitchen. Metal cabinets and a huge sink with built in drainboards on either side. Absolutely loved it! Sadly, the new owners ripped it all out and put in run-of-the-mill Home Depot cabinets and appliances. I could have cried.
Right!! I thought the exact same thing. Love ❤️ that sink
Happened to a friend who ripped out a Edwardian tiled bathroom
@@paulashe61 😱😱😱😱😱😱
I would literally explode.
Love that sink.
It still blows me away that Home Economics isn't offered in public high schools any more. Love these vintage videos.
Yes they do but it’s useless …they only teach you how to bake cookies 🍪
They do, but it's not a requirement anymore
Some US states offer it, some don't.
It's not really the school's place to make sure you can use a pressure cooker or sew on a button tbh. The real shame is parents don't make teaching this basic knowledge to their kids a priority, if they even have this knowledge themselves.
For example, in recent years, pre-K teachers have begun teaching 4 year olds how to use forks and spoons because they don't use them at home anymore. Parents have checked out, and schools are following it seems, which is one reason why these old videos are so heartwarming. It was awesome when people cared so much about a simple homecooked family dinner.
We have a semester on cooking and a semester on sewing
It is offered. Maybe not where you live?
I have a feeling that 'Laura is my girlfriend. Jack's her brother - nice boy, if you like boys' probably meant something quite different back in the 1940s than today!
All these vintage videos SHOULD be shown in school even in this era. It all makes sense.
I know people who are showing them to their kids at home and are also taking their lessons to heart through daily practice.
Only if they drop the sexism.
@@augustcanyon3438 I’m one of them… just sent it to my niece and eldest daughter😂 Now, I have to buy a pressure cooker… I’m still sweating over a hot stove several hours a day and I only cook breakfast and dinner for everyone!
Even if they did this it wouldn't be useful because kids in general don't want to learn these days....
Wouldn't need the videos of we still taught what was in them 👍
I'm only 63,but I'm thankful to my mother who taught me how to cook,and manage a house. I also taught my sons how to do the basics of housekeeping,cooking,and money management. All kids need to learn home economics in the schools. Its not being old-fashioned. It's being responsible.
I take care of my mother in law she is 89 and I use her old pressure cooker. It works great. Love it.
My mother wouldn't allow me and my sister in the kitchen while she was canning her fruits or vegetables in the pressure cooker. She was always afraid that the pressure cooker would explode.
My mother was the same way. She still is.
I'm terrified of my modern pressure cooker with safety features and won't be in the same room unless necessary for this exact same reason. Also the only thing keeping me from canning enough for an apocalypse.
I never heard of a pressure cooker before 😭 it seems odd
My mother would let us stay in the kitchen but I got out of there! I was terrified of the pressure cooker and thought it was going to kill us all one day.
My Ninja cooker, it had like 8 or 9 settings. It exploded while on the pressure setting 😳 Thank God neither my daughter or I were in there. It was so loud, like a big bang! Returned it ASAP and am terrified of pressure cookers now
I love their hair style and the way they dress , decent and elegant .
Me too
Pearls and heels
Hair curled and perfect, make up, classy dresses, heels, and pearls. Such class & elegance
Classy, unlike so many today.
I was born in 1976 but I love seeing these videos. I care 4 my husbands grandmother. She loves I cook like this. Reminds her of her childhood & teen days of cooking with her mom.
For not 4!
You are a special soul and you will remember these times with her and never regret it.
I initially read this as you having 4 husbands
I was born in 1957, I remember many things from my youth that are sadly gone today. It was a better world back then for those things, Home Ec., Civics class..(that needs to come back)...and many other things that were common then but long gone now...Too Bad
For the guys, woodshop and auto shop made them suitable to marry, now what?
There are more demands made on the schools yet more children come to school with bigger issues: younger mothers raising children alone, more students having learning disabilities, more health concerns like food allergies and juvenile diabetes, not having school uniforms, homeless parents, abuse & neglect cases, absent parents (being raised by grandparents or other relative) the number of these situations keeps increasing while the system is expected to create more college ready students or provide vocational training all while having a certified teacher shortage.
You said a mouthful esp. Civics.
@@russ5024 The teacher shortage is because many great teachers left because they were bullied out by the new teachers who are socialists and teach very little. That's why they teach to the test in all the courses. Many students are Dumb as a box of Rocks because they don't get it at.home or at school. Too busy being an influencer on the internet.
It was a better time for who
Watching this again, I'm struck by how much emphasis is placed on avoiding the smell of cooking. While some things (like fish and boiled eggs) don't smell very good, these days the scent of most foods is considered a positive thing, and a sign that the food is going to be good.
And very homey and comforting
I was a bit shocked too! I love when my husband comes home and notes how good what I am making smells. Heck I love the smell 😄
Because a lot of the cooking was bland and bad. Just what happens when you have less access to spices and ingredients, boiled cabbage smells horrible, roasted spiced cabbage smells incredible.
@@omnipotentfaces1514 That makes sense. My grandma was born in 1925, and she never met a vegetable she wouldn't boil into a nasty, tasteless, mushy mess. It was how she taught my mom to cook, and as a result I grew up thinking all vegetables were inevitably a disgusting chore to eat -- it didn't help that we were poor, so spices other than salt and pepper were pretty scarce. It wasn't until I was an adult that I discovered seasonings and things like steamed and roasted veggies.
@@omnipotentfaces1514 the recipes I’ve made from cookbooks of this time have all smelled good
That’s a fancy asss kitchen. Two pressure cookers too. Dolla dolla
Honestly this made me want a pressure cooker
They are the way to go for green beans.
The fundamentals are close to a pressure canner. With approaching food shortages, gardens, and home preservation (May 2022) might become popular.
Bought mine off FB marketplace a year ago and it’s totally worth it. Saves a lot of energy/heat too
Right? I need it now
I love pressure cooker!
Pressure cooker loves you, too. @@reneeratliff1937
It sounds funny but this film motivated me to finally try the pressure cooker I've had for nearly 2 years, which was still in its box. While the design was quite updated compared to the ones used in this film, the basic method after preparing your ingredients was the same; lock the lid, heat on high until there's a steady stream of steam, then turn down low to simmer.
I made a pork and onion sauce for pasta using 1.6kg (3 1/2 pound) piece of pork cut into very large chunks. The recipe I use calls for a simmer time of 3+ hours. After one hour under pressure it was done! The meat was perfect and just tender enough to shred with a fork. I had added a little too much water on my first try so my sauce needed to simmer a little with the lid off to reduce down but I was just amazed. Lesson learned for next time.
To anyone curious or like me a little apprehensive, all I can say is give it a go, as I know I'll be cooking a bit more in the 'modern manner" from now on. 👍
Good Luck Robert & may the Force be with you!!🤣✌️
You can make hard boiled eggs in 5 minutes and don't break, baked potatoes quick in 14 minutes for medium potatoes. I've been doing more and more. Don't be afraid to try.
I can't live without my Presto six-quart stainless steel pressure cooker! It's really a great kitchen item to have!
Chuck roast with potatoes and onions for 45 minutes then let the pressure come off on it's own is also fall apart tender.
@@danalittleton4884 Yes and I also make "Swiss Steak" which is very delicious!!
Love watching these older videos.
Only 4 yrs. since the war was over.
I love hearing the language. "Humbly grateful".
I like looking at the decor.
Most Indian homes have about 3 pressure cookers or varying size and needs in ALL homes. We dont know how to cook without them.
you are more fortunate than most!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Interesting bit of trivia! Fun to know! 😀
Owned a Presto pressure cooker for years!
Loved it until the gasket went bad.
Presto Company no longer exists to order a gasket replacement.
Bought an "Instant Pot".
Wow! 🤩
To see Spring Byington and Connie Marshall is the best, but to also finally learn how to use the pressure cooker I see in vintage shops-this is priceless!!! I learned more here than my Home Ec a million years ago. Luckily my mom taught me cooking. I live my life in 40s clothes and 40s kitchen items in every way I can afford because I feel happiest among that era. Thank you a million for this upload! Have a nice day vintage lovers:)
No wonder no kids like veggies back then if all the moms were boiling veggies for an hour! I started to like a lot more veggies when I learned to cook them just until heated through so their colors and crispness was still intact (learned this by watching cooking shows about Chinese food).
There are a lot of vegetables I hated until I cooked them myself... my
Mother's cooking is delicious but sometimes I hate what she cools lol
My dad always said he didn’t know carrots were supposed to be orange until he joined the marines. Haha
@@varmintkong357 That's funny. My mom never used a pressure cooker. She was super strict about eating healthy. She used steamer pan, and lots of slow cooking, lots of salads. I definitely knew what colour veggies were. I loved veggies as a kid.
I adore these videos. They're like a warm hug.
80s kid here but I love the old American tradition, they are much more happier and gather around like a real family unlike now.
Same here
True that.
Truth
"By 2030 you'll own nothing and you'll be happy" - The World Economic Forum
Bruh thinks a promotional video is a window to reality. 💀
Omg, that lady housewife was actress Spring Byington. I loved her in old movies from the 40s & 50s. 💜
BRINGS BACK A WHOLE LOT OF MEMORIES FOR ME🙏🙏I WASN'T HERE YET,BUT MY MOM+DAD WERE🌹🌹💝💝🙏🙏👫⭐⭐.
My mom used a pressure cooker often. We raised cattle so always had beef. I still love roast beef.
My wife and her mother always talked bad about pressure cookers because they worried they would blow up. A few years ago though my wife gave me a insta pot for Christmas. Which is just an electric pressure cooker. We use it fairly regularly. I use it more as a slow cooker.
My mom also did massive amounts of pressure canning too. She always had a huge garden and put up enough to last most of the winter.
Is it just me or does the man eating spaghetti & meatballs look totally PISSED?
I guess he disapproves of those kinds of foreign malarkey.
As an aside... Spaghetti in the pressure cooker. I can only shudder at the thought.
He told her, he doesn’t want spaghetti again.
Spaghetti is my favorite food bitch!
Of course he's pissed he should have had a cocktail made for him when he got home from work but instead this bitch is got to be making a video😂
His mummy fed him till he was a teenager so he struggles to feed himself.
My grandma would've been Carol's age at the time of this video, she LOVES the pressure cooker.
Imagine being worried about the "mixing of flavors." My dad has made meals all in one pan and called it Gulash. It always turned out pretty good despite multiple vegetables all muddled up in the same dish LOL
I remember my great grandpa mixing his whole plate together no matter what the food was!
Or 'hash' which meant it was Sunday night and Mom was clearing out the left overs and frying the whole mess on the stove. No matter what she mixed together it always tasted wonderful.
Same thing for breakfast. There was no such thing until the 20th century or so. Leftovers were consumed from the past day. @@SusanLu59
Saved my parents tons of time. Dad used it too when older. Smelled great veggies! I have always been afraid to use one when mom told me how the lid can blow to the ceiling so I never did... I hear nowdays it's a lot safer. When that Presto book was pulled out, boy I remember that!
Yea there are things like the instapot. And my mom had the old pressure cookers like shown here. Never used it I'm just not kitchen savvy. But the instapot is fool proof, technology is amazing
🤣 Yeah that part where it Could Blow to the ceiling is why I steered clear of em!! I guess I’m a wuss but I’ll just stay with the Dutch oven thank you very much!!✌️
Im 54 and grew up with my great granny, she taught me how to use a pressure cooker and canner when I was a kid. I still do and I've taught my daughter-in-law and granddaughter! They love the fact they can cook a roast aftrr work!❤
I'm almost 70 and starting a cooking channel to share my old family recipes and canning tips. I've been canning for over 50 years, that's something people today really should know how to do, buy meat on sale and pressure can it.
She called her Mom elderly, omg!!! 😂
Well I’m sold!
What an awesome advert!!
The modern version of this would be the Insta pot.
Except you can’t can with the Insta pot.
@@marcilk7534oh I thought you could
@@lampshade4756 It doesn’t get high enough pressure for safe canning. You’ll need a pressure canner.
Yes, all an Instapot is is an electric pressure cooker. My mother loved using a stovetop pressure cooker but it scared me. I was still afraid to use an Instapot and had to be walked through it by my daughter's college aged boyfriend. It's more idiot proof than the stovetop version.
There is a blast from the past!
Spring Byington isn’t a name we see around anymore. But in the day, she was everywhere. I looked on Wikipedia and it says she was on Mr Ed, Laramie, I Dream of Jeannie and The Flying Nun.
What about Betty Furness???
One of my favorite things to do was read the name credits at the end of old movies. I loved some of the very interesting, unusual names people had. Would be a good pastime for parents to be who wanted something different. 😀
My favorite role of hers was as Doris Day’s mom in Please Don’t Eat the Daisies. She’s very funny. She made it look easy.
My first thought at 7.18 was...i wish I could afford that size of beef!
I have an Instapot that has the pressure cook option and I LOVE it. Have done pressure cooking in the past and now use it at least one a week. Pot roast, stew, chili, noodle dishes. Beef, chicken, pork any thing at all.
@carol Hutchins I agree this video inspired me to look at pressure cooking and have also bought an instant pot that I could not be without now.
@Carol Hutchins, do you use it to can anything?
Those cookers scared the hell out of me as a kid.
Most of the time I stayed out of the kitchen but I remember a lot more steps to it finally being safe enough to take the lid off of one of those things.
I’m 42 and I absolutely love these videos. I was born in the wrong era.
I’m 44 and feel the same way 😢.
You were born in the Era you were meant to be in. Bring vintage into your modern time.
@@blessedrthosesermount99 ❤️
@@yellowlemons5008 Be blessed 💖✨️
37 here and love them
I always loved Spring Byington's voice. I remember her on her TV show, December Bride when I was a kid.
Don't forget 'Laramie'
Thanx for her name!! I thought She was familiar!!
She appeared in the Sandman/Catwoman episode of Batman as "J Pauline Spaghetti". In fact, it was her final performance.
Using mine for years. Love it. Found nothing better for turnips. Also I want this kitchen.
This is equivalent to us teaching our parents/grandparents how to use the Keurig or the Air fryer.
This is much more complicated. You can really get hurt if you don’t do it right.
I think my dream is to have grown up in the early 60s. It was still an innocent time but an exciting time with all the new gadgets(ovens, toasters,washer and dryer, etc), when i watch shows like bewitched i get so jealous of how put together everything and everyone is. Lol
Going to look for a pressure cooker. My momma used hers all the time.
Thank you for making all these wonderful films available
I love chicken gizzards when cooked thoroughly and tender. Properly prepped they cook totally tender in just 52 minutes in a pressure cooker whereas on top of the stove they take 3 hours. I have a Presto electric frying pan purchased around 2010. Presto's been in business for a long time.
Grandma always claimed the gizzard and the neck for herself, as a reward for cooking the bird.
I have that very same pressure cooker with the box even! It was given to me by an elderly man's family that I had helped about 10 years ago after he passed away. I cherish that cooker & the vintage steak knife set they gave me as well. It seems his wife kept packaging for everything. 😊
جميل جدا✌️☺️
Food has changed since the 50’s, quantity and presentation.
As someone born in the late 90s, I’m Madly in love with Connie Marshall.
She's probably in her late 90s!
@@amylaseful5110 I wish she was in her 90s I’d still sweep her off her feet 😭 sadly she died in 2001 she was heavy set a bit (which is fine!) but also looked kind of fiery and feisty in older age so I’ll never get to find out what kind of lady she was I hope she was a serene and gentle soul like she appears to be in this film… God only knows 😭
I love these! Being a boomer it's like going back to childhood. Thank you for the blast from the past.
I love watching these classic films 🎥 🎞 thanks for sharing your videos ❤
A true gem of a video! The subtle humor at 4:51 elevates it all the more.
Present in every brazilian home.
The early version of the microwave. I was a young child in the 1960s, but I don't recall my mom using one of these. PS Check out the blinding wallpaper between the kitchen and the dining room!
It is speed cooking using principles of physics! Sealed cooking raises the boiling point of water by increasing the pressure above the water, resulting in faster cooking!
I love watching these vintage films.
I miss my grandmothers.
I loved my Home Economics class in junior high school in the mid 1980's and this video reminded me of that fact.
I love my 2-year old stovetop pressure cooker, but I had no idea that there was a pressure-cooker INSTITUTE!
Just a title for the film
😂
Mom & daughter graduated from the PCI with flying colors!
Food looks so delicious 😋 moms/families took pride when it came to dinner. My mom did. I was a child in late 60’s thru 70’s and as a family we all ate together in the dining room. Not like today, many families eat at different times.
Yeah it’s Unreal how Different mealtimes are now compared to then. In my family we even enjoyed shellin peas together.(plus it was a good time to catch up on gossip)nowadays the poor kids are lucky if they Ever eat a meal together 😢
I love all the crisco used.
The start of this looked like a start of an infomercial haha. Great video. I love the vintage life videos ❤ could watch them all day
It's funny that they forgot to warn them about what happens if you don't cool it under running cold water. If you try to open it too soon, the lid "blows" off! My aunt's steam valve flew up into the ceiling because she forgot to lower the eat once it started pressure cooking.
I am mesmerized
Love these videos too. I was born in the 50s too
Well that was fun! Thank you!
Feeling smug with my instant pot lollll
A very good recipe and kitchen home shores.A lot of thanks you for posting this program.
Amazing!
A pressure cooker a hairdo and a facelift. Happy girl!
I was born in the 80s, but o wish I could of lived back them in the simple times❤
I think I miss the kitchen equipment and attention to setup for a cook/baker. The machines were designed to last forever, cast iron sinks & the space they gave, and they even had a butter warmer in the fridge.
I can't imagine working a job & doing that kind of housework when I got home 😮 This sure makes my little bit of housework work seem easy!
*The 10 year old featured in this video is now 84 years of age.*
Wow, before social media, long commercials like this must have been so important.
Wow, my mom was 1 year old here. I so love nostalgia and the 40s and 50s. Back when America offered American jobs and our Nation wasn't so divided. I've always wanted to live in an updated 50s home, appliances and all.
Wasn't it literally divided? Redlining/Jim Crow etc
The divisiveness is wayyy worse now. Problem is, it doesn't have to be... but people still play victimhood and cannot remove themselves from the past. I don't want to go into details but Candace Owens is a great teacher on this.
@@ennuiblue4295
It was a better time! Including that!
1950s no air conditioning
Connie Marshall played one of Cary Grant's/Myrna Loy's daughters in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House a year or 2 prior to this. Another 1940's domestic gem.
One of my all-time favorite movies!
Thank you! I knew I recognized her! That’s one of my favorite movies ❤
Just the year before this, in 1948.
The dad/Cary Grant/Mr. Blanding was a Mad Men (ad copywriter). He spends most of the movie trying to come up with a new slogan for not-Spam.
That wallpaper!
Love it, and that whole kitchen!!
I learn how to bake and sew in Home Economics. While my mother could cook, she could not sew. I became her seamstress.
I have 4 pressure cookers 1 of them is electric another one is 2 quart size like a frying pan size, love them all! I also have a 22 qt one to pressure can all foos, love canning meats , makes it really easy to round up your meals.
En fait elles font une démonstration pour un cuiseur vapeur. Une cocotte minute . C est vraiment sympa ces vidéos vintage. ❤❤❤❤❤
I enjoyed this, thanks for uploading! :)
"like most elderly people"... ma'am....
It’s nice seeing Spring Byington in this clip.
I really do love my pressure cooker.
My grandma never let me in the kitchen when she was using the pressure cooker
I think anyone Mom today would rejoice if her kid would boil an egg for Dinner!
If they didn't teach their children basic survival skills from a young age.... that's kind of on them.
@@Thehouseoffail people laugh at millennial for not knowing how to do life skills, but never blame the parents for not teaching them.
@@azureramorganna7337gen z are worse. Much worse as they can't even read the time on the 🕒 !
@@iseegoodandbad6758
Ever see Gen Z try to use a rotary phone? It’s hysterical.
😂😂😂😂😂 c est vrai!!! It s true
So interesting to me how folks had a much more dignified way about them way back when. . .
C est vrai que la cocotte minutes a facilité la cuisine et la vie des femmes !! Merci de ce partage !!
She was wiping down the roast, and did not wash her hands when she flipped it over, 🤣🤣
Tha k u. Good tactic.
That's what I was wondering. Never saw anyone wipe down a roast before. Never. Don't know where that came from.
Wiping the meat least i was told was because of the cut that looked like a arm roast with a round one saws leave it's of bone I've always wiped my roasts off yes it's odd but getting a shard of bone is not fun
My dumba$$ thought when the pot was boiling over: wow, guess that was a cooking technique in 1949
My mother's cousin was seriously injured when something went wrong and the pressure cooker exploded. She's never been comfortable using one since.
Spring Byington, I adore her, love her voice, December Bride, I remember that show when I was a kid
My mother became impatient and opened the pressure cooker. There were potatoes on the ceiling! My mother was burned pretty badly.
3:24 Old-fashioned Morton Salt.
LOL. Like a pressure cooker saves on anything other than the amount of time it takes for the food to cook. I love pressure cookers, but they don't change the fact that you have to peel and chop stuff.
I agree! I like the time savings when using a pressure cooker. But what I find funny when thinking about time savings being the big "sell" for the pressure cooker is that I absolutely love the "effort saving" I get when cooking sous vide - which is the polar opposite of the pressure cooker when it comes to how long it takes to cook things! 😊
Using sous vide I can get results that are amazing along with getting a big window on when I have to serve, as usually things can stay "in the bath" after required cooking has completed with no appreciable change to the food. So as long as I know approximately when I'll want to eat sous vide is likely to be used for a lot of my cooking.
That said, if things are last minute then an instant pot or stovetop pressure cooker can be an absolute lifesaver!!!
Yep-I need a servant!
So true.
you can now buy your food chopped too, but you pay for the convenience
@@mirozen_ good point
5:23 "Laura is my girlfriend. Jack is her brother. A nice boy. If you like boys" Very progressive for these times😂
I don't think they mean lesbianism. Just childlike innocence.
@@HH-gf4hg Yeah, I was just kidding😄 How do you like this song? ruclips.net/video/xzGnP0HKf5Y/видео.html
@@cimsonrose6844 it's pretty russian japanesey! Apelsin = orange?
@@HH-gf4hg The song is about a kitsune (a 9-tailed female fox) and yes, apelsin means orange in russian.
It showed innocence. A different time when couples didn't have sex until marriage, and girls took home economics class to manage a home.
Sweetheart was used to indicate a romantic relationship.
Love these They came out with 6dvd set incased in a vintage looking lu ch box
I never wrote this
thanks
30 minute commercial. Still better than ads today. I miss these old vids. And home Ec. My grandmother had that same stove!
“A normal amount of common sense and a minimum amount of cooking imagination”…Wow!
I like my cooking imagination, so that doesn't work for me. 🤪