Please teach us more depression recipes. We are in some similar times and need ideas to stretch out food resources. We have been spoiiled and now it's time to face this current reality. Thanks!
I had no idea biscuits and gravy was a depression era recipe! I live in the south and it was the norm for us. Our meatloaf was made torn bread or crackers, but not soaked in milk. No bacon on top but Mom would put a strip of bacon on the baked beans sometimes. She grew up in the late 30’s-early 40’s, through times of rationing. She was very frugal and smart! Plus was raised by my grandmother and great-grandmother who had gone through the depression. My dad’s mom would make the applesauce cake. I loved it! Haven’t made it in years. I need to do that! Thank you for taking me down memory lane!
I was raised in the South too and continue to live here. We were raise eating all these foods as well. I didn't know we ate frugally until I read it somewhere. Like you, this was just normal for my family. We never ate out because (1) my parents couldn't afford it and (2) there was no such thing as fast food in our area. This was during a time when women still cooked from scratch, and people ate 3 meals a day.
I didn’t realize so many of my family staples were depression recipes. Cream peas and tuna on toast and rice with milk and sugar. That was some of my absolute favorite things. And meatloaf!
You can stretch a meatloaf quite far with all sorts of healthy additives. Breadcrumbs, eggs, grated carrots, finely chopped onions, parsley, etc. Be sure to season well. You can almost double that meatloaf!
My parents were adults in the depression. My mom cooked for 3 families. She always watered down the milk to make it stretch. Crackers broken up helped stretch the meat. God help us they saved everything in case you need it later to save money. Plus they had a small veggie garden.
Absolutely! I can recall with clarity my grandmother's stacks of neatly washed styrofoam egg cartons, meat trays, rinsed and dried foil folded neatly, saved butter wrappers (for greasing pans) and or course the ever present meat-drippings container next to the stove.
My neighbor growing up was a Filipino and my favorite recipe her grandma wld make was chocolate rice almost like you made but with cocoa powder! It's so good! Left over warm rice, warm milk, butter, and cocoa powder. Its to die for
My mom recently told me that her mom always put the flour in a jar with milk and shook it then put it in the pan and had a smooth gravy or rue every time. My grandma also cooked her scrambled eggs in a pot with milk instead of a skillet. They were light and a soft scramble. Yummy! My other grandma (dad’s mom) used her iron skillet for almost everything. Sometimes we came in from school to skillet bread. So good with butter…it was like a huge buttery biscuit that she cooked on the stove.
You can't get a true rue by mixing the milk and the flour together like that. When I read up on making rue I learned the majority of the flavor in gravy comes from the rue making process. Stirring constantly is to keep it from burning. Once made, if the gravy is too thin, adding the flour, milk, shaken up method is a great thickener but not for starting.
I was born in 1957 and we ate all these foods growing up. Applesauce Cake was made for Christmas every year and I still make it but always in a bundt pan. As it ages I gets better.
Here in germany we eat mustard eggs over potatos. Just like you did with the creamy eggs,but add some mustard and half the eggs and just heat them through. Delish!
Gorgeous woman, love the hair! I miss Clara's videos. She was definitely one of a kind and her recipes always came with stories of her childhood growing up during the Depression. These recipes sound fantastic, and with today's inflation, we may all be tightening our belts and using these receipts as well as making up some of our own. Thanks Kimmie for all the information!
My grandmother made creamed eggs on toast often, brought back many great memories for me❤ My husband loves sausage gravy over home fries with a fried egg on top. My boys love it too!
My grandmother grow up during the depression. She was still eating the warm rice, in the early 2000's. She LOVED it. She also would make creamed beef (that's the nice name for it). The same way you make the creamed egg. She would buy beef lunch meat and slice it; then add it to the cream sauce and serve over toast. That to this day is on of my favorite things. I love watching your great depression videos
Oh Kimmy!!! The very first recipe transported me back to my little girl days, late 1960's. My Mom would make a big batch of rice... then the next morning, we'd have warmed up rice, with the milk, sugar and cinnamon over it!!! Such a treat! SO thank you for the flashback!!!
I am old, but spent a lot of time as a teen talking with a couple who raised a family during the depression. Meatloaf was actually a once a week common meal. It was not an actual recipe, it was all the weeks left over bits of breads, vegetables and even other meats combined with some fresh ground meat of whatever they had to make a loaf, It never tasted the same but was always appreciated. Sliced bread during the great depression was more in larger cities than in country stores as it wasn't even available until 1928. It the country it was more loaves and hardtack than anything else. I sure do miss talking to that older couple, they told me if they didn't raise chickens and goats at the time they never would have made it through the depression, most people raised cows and chickens. Of course they had the massive gardens also. Loved the video though, probably things many didn't even think about.
The luxury of sliced, white bread has to be why no family dinner served by my grandmother was ever complete without a platter of white bread as one of the sides. That makes perfect sense.
My mother made her meatloaf like this except for the bacon I'm pretty sure it's because she was a widow raising 5 kids. I'm so glad I payed attention to her cooking I make my meatloaf like this also. She passed away in 1998 @63yrs old I miss her great cooking.😥 Love these videos, keep them coming! Thank you💜
Never had the creamed eggs but we are going to try it. Love sausage gravy, another way my mom and grandmother made it was to use ground beef. We would eat it with toast or rice.
My mom, from the Depression, cooked the creamed eggs. She called it Eggs a la Goldenrod. Sounded much more fancy. Of course you could substitute dried beef, and it’s chipped beef on toast. The military calls it something different.lol
Mom called them Eggs ala Goldenrod. I have the original recipe from Ann Page. (A&P grocery store) Dad was Army so he called them SOS! Bananas wrapped with Dutch loaf was a lunch option. Fried Green tomatoes and mashed potatoes. Our meat loaf used crushed crackers onions and tomato soup poured on top. Sweet rice was Moms favorite. She ate it for breakfast. This brought back so many memories.
I don't know if it's a Depression recipe or just a poor immigrants from Poland recipe 😂 but our family LOVES haluski. It's been filling our family's bellies for at least 5 generations. 😁
First, I love your hair cut. My grandparents lived through the depression. We ate many of the recipes from both your vlogs. Now I know why we always had ketchup or we would have tomato soup, cheaper on our meatloaf and creamed tuna, and definitely applesauce cake. Thank, love these vlogs
Love this series ... I remember one time I was asking my grandma about what she ate as a kid. They lived in the country side and were very poor. She ate from fruit trees from the neighboring places and with sad face she remember... "I even ate water seasoned with the tail of a codfish and some potatoes". Meat was a luxury but ate mostly local root veggies.
Every recipe looks delish!! I've eaten the rice since childhood, a definite comfort food for me and a great way to use up leftover rice.. Since microwaves came along, I "zap" the bowl for a good 1 minute or so and the rice soaks up all that yummy milk and sugar. A dash of vanilla never hurts. 😇TFS!!
My grandmother and mother made meatloaf like that. Sometimes they added chopped green pepper and mixed some ketchup in the meat mixture also. Delicious!
Loved this. It reminded me of my mama’s cooking. CORRECTION: That was not sawmill gravy. The term "sawmill gravy" comes from early logging camp food and old-time sawmills. It was originally made with cornmeal, bacon drippings, milk, and seasonings. This resulted in a somewhat gritty gravy; in fact, rumor has it that the loggers would accuse the cooks of putting sawdust in the recipe!
I love Cracker Barrel sawmill gravy. It tastes different than the gravy I make. But it doesn't taste gritty. I've tried to find a recipe for sawmill gravy but just get the regular gravy recipe.
My grandparents survived the depression. Some of my favorite foods were birthed in the kitchens of moms trying to feed their families. My dad gave us this a lot growing up and he was born in the 50s.
I love all these recipes! It's kind of funny because almost all these recipes are incorporated into our monthly menu. These meals have made it through 3 generations in my family and will keep passing them down.
I'm so excited, we are making the Depression Meatloaf tonight! I have a feeling my family will agree that it's a keeper - we'll see in an hour! Thank you for sharing these time-tested meals to make our money stretch.
My dad use to make us rice and milk for breakfast , feeding a family of 12 ,it went along way and was cheap enough to afford, he also loved rice pudding
My Mom would use the left over rice the next morning heated with milk or cream and add brown sugar or just sugar and cinnamon and fresh grated nutmeg for each person taste
We grew up eating the “egg gravy” as we called it. The only difference is that after we boiled the eggs, we separated the yolk from the white part and only put the cut up white part of the egg into the gravy. Then we would crumble the yolk part and sprinkle it over the toast with the gravy. Yum!
We ate creamed rice with cinnamon as the starch with our meals, like a substitute for mashed potatoes. It wasn't quite as runny & the cinnamon was optional, even though we all sprinkled it on top. I was born in 1950.
Love these videos. With prices going up and some shelves being empty, I often find myself thinking of my Nan and what she would have cooked back then. 😊 x x x
Wow! That depression meatloaf is better than my own usually is. I never used valuable bacon 🥓 on mine. Sometimes add ketchup. Since it’s just me now it cooks faster in a muffin tin in the toaster oven.
I’m a “just me”, too. How many mini meatloaves do you get from 2 lbs. meat in standard muffin cups? What temp and how long do you bake in toaster oven? Love all these recipes!
In spring my children like egg gravy with small pieces of precooked asparagus in. My mother would cook and season macaroni, make sausage gravy and heat creamed corn from her freezer then we would layer it on our plate macaroni, sausage gravy and top with homegrown creamed corn. That was so delicious!
Grew up with all these recipes.... They are comfort foods to me..... These recipes were made out of desperation in the depression... May have to use them again soon ! 💖😬😁
I am only 35 and I ate that rice cereal as a kid, we were very poor. It is really yummy. And I make sausage gravy all the time. My husband loves biscuits and gravy.
My family had the rice, milk, with cinnamon and sugar for dinner during the 1970's during the high stagflation because their was so much shrinkflation. We occasionally ate it for breakfast too.
Love making rice pudding for l,m on very low income so easy cheap recipes help at moment have no meat,chicken,tuna etc so have to be creative.loved this video
My grandmother used to make the creamed eggs on toast for holiday & special occasions breakfasts. She grew up during the depression on a farm and was #11 of 13 children. I now make it with gluten free flour & toast along with lactose free milk and it's just as delicious.
I might be repeating myself. But I make grilled cheese meatloaf sandwiches with leftover meatloaf. Cut thin and add a little tomato sauce and of course cheese.
Applesauce cake was my grandma's favorite!! I really love it too although I've never tried it with raisins. I don't know for sure if it's a depression era recipe but I know my great grandma LOVED rhubarb crunch and it's amazing if you haven't tried it. I think rhubarb is really easy to grow too. Anyway Definitely want to eat with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. 😋
my mom makes chip beef on toast. The beef comes in a jar, and she never made us eat it but she would have it on a night that we all were doing our own thing for dinners
I have also put the sausage gravy over toast, french fries, and potatoes of any kind.That meatloaf is fancy compared to my recipe, looks amazing! I use ground meat of any kind, ketchup, mustard and some oatmeal and an egg, season as you like. Love the applesauce cake recipe! am Eastern Orthodox and we have a lot of strict fasting days, vegan food only, and this is easily adapted to that!
Oh my! I thought creamed eggs on toast was something only my Mom made! You are the first person I've ever heard that knew what they were! I'm 71 and my Mom use to make creamed eggs on toast for us. I still make occasionally. Thanks for the memory of my Mom.
My Nanny who is 98 always made an applesauce cake at Christmas which my dad said he loved. I got the recipe from my aunt and plan to surprise him during the holidays. I made a test run and it was delicious!
WOW! And to think I was raised on that stuff long after the depression! We didn't eat our rice with milk though . We only put milk in our cereal, or drank it. My husband ate rice with milk and hated it. So I told him to just eat it with the sugar and butter and even with cinnamon! He said, "But that's like eating a dessert!" Well, I'm for that! LOL! Mom never made creamed eggs, but she did put sausage in her gravy from time to time. I will try the meatloaf with the bread and milk. Mom made hers different; with a few crushed crackers rather than bread, and sometimes she'd add a can of drained mixed veggies. There's so many wonderful ways to make meatloaf! I will have to try the cake....just because it's different than what I make! I love to try new recipes, and so does my family! And thank you so much for cooking and sharing your recipes! Wish I could have been in your kitchen to help be a "taster"!
Hi Kimmie. I make a similar gravy to the saw mill gravy. I learned it from my mom. We serve it with mashed potatoes usually and just call it ground beef, gravy, and potatoes. Instead of milk, we use the water from the boiled potatoes. Then we make a flour slurry to thicken the gravy and gravy browning for colour. One of our favs.
My husbands grandmother (who is 92) makes something similar to the egg meal on toast. She boils the eggs to make them hard boiled. While they are cooking she makes a white gravy. Once the eggs are boiled she takes the shells off. Then takes the yolks out of the white part. Cut up the white part and put it on the toast. Top the egg whites with the gravy and put the yolks crumbles up on top. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. It is good. They call it stuff on toast.
My parents lived during the depression si I ate a lit of recipes from that era and one of my favorite breakfast foods till this day is adding peanut butter to cooked rice. So good.
@@shesinherapron anything from scratch. I still cook that way. Anything out of the garden, raised our cows and pigs. My dad taught me how to cut up a chicken to be able to use the whole thing. Coremeal dumplings one of my favorites, they were spicy 😋
My mom used to eat the rice a lot when I was young. I've had it. It's really yummy even cold. My grandma taught me how to make a rue as well as bisquits and gravy. It's my favorite. Thank you for sharing.
@@charlottedenman7176 I would love your recipe for Cornmeal Dumplings! They sound amazing! Cooking things from our childhood really brings back great memories! Thank you!!!
My mom made this and we called it sausage gravy and biscuits . She added some dehydrated onion flakes and a little garlic powder . Try it cause it is delicious , All 4 of my boys and 1 daughter are grown and married and they all make this for their families .
I bet you could use that meatloaf recipe with boxed stuffing and the milk and it would taste even better. I've heard a lot of people use box stuffing for their meatloaf instead of just the plain unseasoned bread.. maybe like the sage and herb one? I think I'll try that.
My mom always called the creamed eggs, eggs a la goldenrod. Lol. She grated a little bit of the hard-boiled egg on the top after putting the creamed mixture on the toast. Brought back memories of her. ❤️. Miss her.
My great granny always made rice pudding every time we had rice. It was one of my favorite desserts ever and still is. I loved it because whenever she made it I got to eat it for breakfast. As a kid having dessert for breakfast was the best thing ever. Now I need to make some rice pudding 🤣
I make a meal called water hamburger. You cook up ground beef and half a choped onion and salt and pepper. When the meat is cooked all the way,drain the grease. You add 1/2 cup of water. Heat until the water starts to boil. Turn off heat and serve over mashed potatoes and a side of vegetable.
My mom has been making the white sauce with eggs since I was a little girl. We had it as a camping breakfast except she served it over biscuits. I like to sprinkle mine with lots of black pepper. Yum!
I was born in 1949 but both of my parents were married in the height of the Great Depression and still ate a lot of foods that they learned or ate during that time as well. All of my grandparents were . shall we say, frugal and made use of every scrap of food. Nothing went to waste, but a lot went to WAIST. In any event here are some of the things that I remember. Mom made meatloaf much like yours but not with bacon, since bacon and eggs for breakfast was a workday meal, with waffles or pancakes on the weekend. She did add some sliced celery (15 cents a bunch back then) and a can of drained diced stewed tomatoes with the juice served in small glasses as a starter to the meal. As to your rice dish, that was also a staple for breakfast and we would add raisins or muscats (white raisins) as some do for rice pudding. We also added a dollop of catsup to cooked white rice as a side dish. My grandmother made something called a "toad in the hole" . She would cut a circle into a piece of hot buttered toast and then drop a raw egg in the whole and fry both with grated cheese or sausage gravy over the top. BTW the secret to avoid lumpy gravy is to take a bowl and mix the milk at room temp with the flour or thickener stirring it until smooth and THEN adding it to the pan of oil or grease She also made skillet fried chicken with white gravy right from the pan. Some other Depression recipes were baked onions. Mom would take large onions and hollow out about an inch of the diameter of the center and filling it with grated cheese cooking them in a water bath and serving with some sour cream on top. Dandelion salad- dandelions wilted with a hot cider vinegar, bacon grease and chopped bacon dressing and finished with chopped green onions and sliced hard boiled eggs was a regular menu item in the spring. My grandmother made a simple ahd quick spaghetti marinara by combining two small tins of tomato paste and water or wine , reducing it until thick and adding salt, garlic powder, and lots of fresh black pepper, serving it over spaghetti with a salad for lunch. As for salads, father liked avocados cut in half and their cavities filled with chili sauce or ketchup. It's also good filled with small shrimp, mayo, a dash of chili powder or cocktail sauce, and a dash of lime or lemon juice. He learned about avocados in California and Hawaii during the war. My favorite salad was my grandmother's potato salad made up of quartered or sliced boiled potatoes allowed to cool before slicing paired with thinly sliced celery with chopped leaves, thinly sliced scallions (green onions) and radishes and diced cooked bacon that has been allowed to soak in the vinegar, oil, salt and pepper dressing before serving . The dressing is then poured over the salad which has been allowed to cool in the refrigerator for a few hours and then the dressed salad is topped with some fresh chopped parsley and mixed well. For desserts Jello with fruit cocktail was my Dad's favorite treat. Jello was a dime and there would always be a sale on can goods somewhere to stock up on fruit. We also had boxed pudding and ice cream. My favorite dessert came at Christmas time when my mother made cream puffs filled with home made vanilla filling and dusted with powdered sugar. If I helped set up the cooling racks for the two dozen that she made for Christmas dinner and the family who could not wait for Santa, I got to eat the left over filling. Since we were Catholic and could not eat meat on Friday mom would make salmon patties from a can or two of canned jack salmon, crackers, eggs, chopped onion and celery, salt. pepper, and chopped parsley. She also made this then popular dish of tunafish mixed with cream of mushroom soup, peas, and made into a casserole with egg noodles topped with potato chips and baked. I called it tuna dejavu because ten minutes after I would eat it, I would belch and taste it all over again. Needless to say I REFUSED to eat it even under pain of death so I was relegated to a cheese toastie and a cup of tomato soup.
One of my aunts was hard up so she added quite a bit of veggies to her meatloaf to stretch the meat even more. As time went by they became more well off, so one day she made a classic meatloaf. She was totally surprised when her children didn’t like it and asked her to make the “good meatloaf” again. :-)
I love this video and it reminds of my great grandma. However., I just want to mention it was so pleasing to see all the colorful dishes and mixing bowls.
My Mom lived threw depression and rations. Between her and my fathers mother I learned to use everything. Cream sause made everything go further. Eggs gravy, salmon pea wiggle, chipped beef or sausage gravy were surved often
Hi Kimmy I enjoyed this video so much. Just wanted to let you know in case you’re interested a great recipe from that era is country fried steak but to make it more cost effective you substitute hamburger meat for the steak. So 😋
I just love these kind of videos. I am 71 years old. My mom used to give us that rice dish for breakfast, but we added raisins to it. I still love it to this day. And the creamed eggs, I make it every year at Easter for my kids, we called it golden rod. It is so delicious.
All of it looks absolutely delicious 🤤…as for the sausage gravy, I like making a tater tots casserole (mixing frozen tater tots with cream of mushroom and then topped with plenty of cheese) and then after baking, add the sausage gravy over it ❤️ it’s a family favorite 😍
@@pantryonlyrecipes hey yes it’s a good and easy and filling meal! No milk needed just mixing the tater tots with with a can or two of cream of mushroom (depending on how many tater tots you use - enough for a light coating of every tater tot) then add salt and pepper, then cheese on top and bake in oven covered for (I’m guessing 20 min at 350) then remove aluminum foil and bake for another 10 ish minutes or until cheese is melted and golden and bubbly 😊 hope you are enjoying it, if so let me know plz 😊
Cream egg on toast - I grew up with this meal! It is good to add ground sausage to it too. We also tore up the bread and then put the gravy over it (think sacrament bread size). Sooooo good and cheap! Got me through college
I absolutely love your hair. Looks beautiful on you. Thanks for sharing these recipes. The first one reminded me of my grandmom. She used to take day old Italian bread and dunk it in coffee. That was her breakfast on daily basis. When I was little she would give me little coffee(heavily sweetened)in a bowl and let me dunk. I remember it was good. Thanks for sharing your ideas and recipes.
We cut our toast in diamonds and have any veggie you like it’s my nephews favorite dinner the creamed eggs . Use canned milk on your rice tastes richer . Like the frozen biscuits at Sams the best . The cake is good with dried cranberries also and a pat of butter when you don’t have ice cream or icing. Great video ! You are so pretty 🤩!
My mom also made creamed eggs on Toast.please do more Depression recipes or WW 11ones also interesting ones there Too,with lots of veggies Because of gardens.
Rice Cereal, yay first youtuber I've seen share this. I didn't realize this was a great depression food, my mom gave it to us when we were kids, except we did brown sugar, milk, butter and rice. Sometimes instead of rice we did corn meal, or cracked wheat grains from lds distribution.
@@cherylcook1942 yep cornmeal mush, that's what we called it too. So yummy. We would take the leftover mush poured it into a loaf pan put it in fridge until it jelled, then slice and fry it up and eat it like pancakes. Soo good.
My Grandma always made her meatloaf with bread slices.So good! These are all wonderful! Love the bowls you mixed the meatloaf in. May I ask where you got them?
When my Mom (grew up during in the depression and got married toward the last year or so of it) they I will post her recipe; she always once the meatloaf was cooked would save the drained off fat & juice and use it to make a soup base. I did want to say something about you using so much bacon unless you raised pigs or could trade something for bacon it was rationed so no one would use that much bacon on top at time I don't even think 1 or 2 slices they would save it for a special breakfast. I know both my fathers family & my Mother's family would keep some bacon for their family from each pig they would raise and they tried to raise at least 1 a year; but also sold it or trade it if possible with other farmers. .
I was a child, bout 60 yrs ago and my mother made a white sauce with boiled eggs and frozen peas. She added a curry to it and then she served over rice. With fried chicken, wow the memories, always good. Thank you. Patricia
Oh my gosh, where have you been all my life? 😅👍❤💥 Side note: I use oats instead of bread for the meatloaf and it works great! And stewed tomatoes with the juice instead of canned milk! 😋
We called them Goldenrod eggs growing up. A loaf of bread and dozen eggs would feed us all dinner. So yummy. Mom would take the separate yolks from the whites (after cooked and peeled) and push through a sifter to make a fine sprinkle for the top. 🥚 🍞
I make the gravy quite often. It's so good. My mom also taught me how to do it using bacon which is awesome too. She grew up with her mom frying chicken then pouring the gravy over it instead of the biscuits. I'm loving these great depression videos and am glad you are doing these. I tried the Wacky cake with the help of my little girl and it was amazing.
Great recipes for my prepper pantry. I dehydrate my cooked white rice and always have it handy for one of my husband’s favorite evening dessert of sweet rice. It’s easy to hydrate my rice with hot water in a thermos a half hour before serving it to save fuel in the future. I don’t add the butter but will definitely be letting him try it with the honey. Thank you for that idea!
Please teach us more depression recipes. We are in some similar times and need ideas to stretch out food resources. We have been spoiiled and now it's time to face this current reality. Thanks!
I had no idea biscuits and gravy was a depression era recipe! I live in the south and it was the norm for us. Our meatloaf was made torn bread or crackers, but not soaked in milk. No bacon on top but Mom would put a strip of bacon on the baked beans sometimes. She grew up in the late 30’s-early 40’s, through times of rationing. She was very frugal and smart! Plus was raised by my grandmother and great-grandmother who had gone through the depression. My dad’s mom would make the applesauce cake. I loved it! Haven’t made it in years. I need to do that! Thank you for taking me down memory lane!
I was raised in the South too and continue to live here. We were raise eating all these foods as well. I didn't know we ate frugally until I read it somewhere. Like you, this was just normal for my family. We never ate out because (1) my parents couldn't afford it and (2) there was no such thing as fast food in our area. This was during a time when women still cooked from scratch, and people ate 3 meals a day.
It was, but there was no sausage in it. Poor people couldn't afford much meat-milk was even a stretch.
Lower alabama here. I just made sausage gravy and biscuts for my husband and i for supper the other day.
@@bcaye Some could. My great-grandmother raised at least one hog every year and always had a flock of chickens. She butchered every animal herself.
My grandmother used cracker crumbs in her meatloaf, along with eggs. No milk. It was delicious!
I didn’t realize so many of my family staples were depression recipes. Cream peas and tuna on toast and rice with milk and sugar. That was some of my absolute favorite things. And meatloaf!
You can stretch a meatloaf quite far with all sorts of healthy additives. Breadcrumbs, eggs, grated carrots, finely chopped onions, parsley, etc. Be sure to season well. You can almost double that meatloaf!
@@trudydavis6168 I use crushed cereal like cornflakes or cheerios.
My mom made us rice with cinnamon and milk as kids. I I'm only 43 so I think it's impressive how my mom cooked for us! Poverty but with good food
Rice pudding you mean??
@@RunninUpThatHillh nope just cooked rice with cinnamon and sugar and milk
My parents were adults in the depression. My mom cooked for 3 families. She always watered down the milk to make it stretch. Crackers broken up helped stretch the meat. God help us they saved everything in case you need it later to save money. Plus they had a small veggie garden.
Absolutely! I can recall with clarity my grandmother's stacks of neatly washed styrofoam egg cartons, meat trays, rinsed and dried foil folded neatly, saved butter wrappers (for greasing pans) and or course the ever present meat-drippings container next to the stove.
My neighbor growing up was a Filipino and my favorite recipe her grandma wld make was chocolate rice almost like you made but with cocoa powder! It's so good! Left over warm rice, warm milk, butter, and cocoa powder. Its to die for
My mom recently told me that her mom always put the flour in a jar with milk and shook it then put it in the pan and had a smooth gravy or rue every time. My grandma also cooked her scrambled eggs in a pot with milk instead of a skillet. They were light and a soft scramble. Yummy! My other grandma (dad’s mom) used her iron skillet for almost everything. Sometimes we came in from school to skillet bread. So good with butter…it was like a huge buttery biscuit that she cooked on the stove.
You can't get a true rue by mixing the milk and the flour together like that. When I read up on making rue I learned the majority of the flavor in gravy comes from the rue making process. Stirring constantly is to keep it from burning. Once made, if the gravy is too thin, adding the flour, milk, shaken up method is a great thickener but not for starting.
I shake my milk and flour together for white sauce. It does make a smooth sauce.
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I make my scrambled eggs in a pot as well (watched Gordon Ramsay make his). Creamy and so yummy!
I was born in 1957 and we ate all these foods growing up. Applesauce Cake was made for Christmas every year and I still make it but always in a bundt pan. As it ages I gets better.
Sounds like A& P Spanish Bar.
@@hazelbrungard1623 I loved the A & P Spanish bar
I'm imagining the sausage gravy and the creamed eggs getting together and having a happy toast party 😂
Here in germany we eat mustard eggs over potatos. Just like you did with the creamy eggs,but add some mustard and half the eggs and just heat them through. Delish!
I remember my Mother giving us sweetened leftover rice as a dessert when I was a small child. Yes, it was good.
Same here.😊
Gorgeous woman, love the hair! I miss Clara's videos. She was definitely one of a kind and her recipes always came with stories of her childhood growing up during the Depression. These recipes sound fantastic, and with today's inflation, we may all be tightening our belts and using these receipts as well as making up some of our own. Thanks Kimmie for all the information!
I miss Clara’s videos too :( she was such a gem !
Love, love, loved her giggle. She was a beautiful woman.
Aren’t her recipes still here on RUclips? I recently bought her cookbook.
@@nadogrl yes ma'am 😽
@@ericastout4552 - I recognize you from Rhoda’s channel.❤️
My grandmother made creamed eggs on toast often, brought back many great memories for me❤ My husband loves sausage gravy over home fries with a fried egg on top. My boys love it too!
My grandmother grow up during the depression. She was still eating the warm rice, in the early 2000's. She LOVED it.
She also would make creamed beef (that's the nice name for it). The same way you make the creamed egg. She would buy beef lunch meat and slice it; then add it to the cream sauce and serve over toast. That to this day is on of my favorite things.
I love watching your great depression videos
My mom called it frizzled beef. I loved it.
I like savory foods for breakfast. I make warm rice with a little butter and shredded cheese. Or cheesy grits. Yum.
Oh Kimmy!!! The very first recipe transported me back to my little girl days, late 1960's. My Mom would make a big batch of rice... then the next morning, we'd have warmed up rice, with the milk, sugar and cinnamon over it!!! Such a treat! SO thank you for the flashback!!!
I am old, but spent a lot of time as a teen talking with a couple who raised a family during the depression. Meatloaf was actually a once a week common meal. It was not an actual recipe, it was all the weeks left over bits of breads, vegetables and even other meats combined with some fresh ground meat of whatever they had to make a loaf, It never tasted the same but was always appreciated. Sliced bread during the great depression was more in larger cities than in country stores as it wasn't even available until 1928. It the country it was more loaves and hardtack than anything else. I sure do miss talking to that older couple, they told me if they didn't raise chickens and goats at the time they never would have made it through the depression, most people raised cows and chickens. Of course they had the massive gardens also. Loved the video though, probably things many didn't even think about.
The luxury of sliced, white bread has to be why no family dinner served by my grandmother was ever complete without a platter of white bread as one of the sides. That makes perfect sense.
@@mollysmith6055 My grandma was the same way. I think it was being thankful to not have to bake everyday and it was a cheap filler.
My mother made her meatloaf like this except for the bacon I'm pretty sure it's because she was a widow raising 5 kids. I'm so glad I payed attention to her cooking I make my meatloaf like this also. She passed away in 1998 @63yrs old I miss her great cooking.😥 Love these videos, keep them coming! Thank you💜
63 is far too young, I'm so sorry for your loss. You were lucky to have such a wonderful woman for a mom who made sure to raise you right though.
Thank you very much🤗. 💞She was a wonderful mother and best friend. 💞
Never had the creamed eggs but we are going to try it. Love sausage gravy, another way my mom and grandmother made it was to use ground beef. We would eat it with toast or rice.
We would have the ground beef gravy at dinner, delicious.
My mom, from the Depression, cooked the creamed eggs. She called it Eggs a la Goldenrod. Sounded much more fancy. Of course you could substitute dried beef, and it’s chipped beef on toast. The military calls it something different.lol
My mom always called it SOS and when my sister and I would press her for the answer of what that meant she'd say, 'Never you mind.'
My mom called it that too. She separated the yolks and sprinkled them on top....so pretty and delicious 😋
Mom too
Mom called them Eggs ala Goldenrod. I have the original recipe from Ann Page. (A&P grocery store) Dad was Army so he called them SOS! Bananas wrapped with Dutch loaf was a lunch option. Fried Green tomatoes and mashed potatoes. Our meat loaf used crushed crackers onions and tomato soup poured on top. Sweet rice was Moms favorite. She ate it for breakfast. This brought back so many memories.
How many pounds of hamburger for the meatloaf ?
I don't know if it's a Depression recipe or just a poor immigrants from Poland recipe 😂 but our family LOVES haluski. It's been filling our family's bellies for at least 5 generations. 😁
My Grandmother was born 1918, she made most of those recipes, they were delicious. Thanks for sharing.👍❤️
First, I love your hair cut. My grandparents lived through the depression. We ate many of the recipes from both your vlogs. Now I know why we always had ketchup or we would have tomato soup, cheaper on our meatloaf and creamed tuna, and definitely applesauce cake. Thank, love these vlogs
Love this series ... I remember one time I was asking my grandma about what she ate as a kid. They lived in the country side and were very poor. She ate from fruit trees from the neighboring places and with sad face she remember... "I even ate water seasoned with the tail of a codfish and some potatoes". Meat was a luxury but ate mostly local root veggies.
Every recipe looks delish!! I've eaten the rice since childhood, a definite comfort food for me and a great way to use up leftover rice.. Since microwaves came along, I "zap" the bowl for a good 1 minute or so and the rice soaks up all that yummy milk and sugar. A dash of vanilla never hurts. 😇TFS!!
Creamed eggs on toast is my love language! Had them often growing up and still a comfort food for me.
I have eaten the rice with milk sugar and butter for 50 years, so good.
My grandmother and mother made meatloaf like that. Sometimes they added chopped green pepper and mixed some ketchup in the meat mixture also. Delicious!
Loved this. It reminded me of my mama’s cooking.
CORRECTION: That was not sawmill gravy. The term "sawmill gravy" comes from early logging camp food and old-time sawmills. It was originally made with cornmeal, bacon drippings, milk, and seasonings. This resulted in a somewhat gritty gravy; in fact, rumor has it that the loggers would accuse the cooks of putting sawdust in the recipe!
I agree the texture is very different but both delicious
How interesting!
We grew up calling this sausage gravy
I love Cracker Barrel sawmill gravy. It tastes different than the gravy I make. But it doesn't taste gritty. I've tried to find a recipe for sawmill gravy but just get the regular gravy recipe.
I agree….this was just your basic sausage gravy and biscuits.
My grandmother went through the Great Depression and they ate this rice but put a spoonful of peanut butter in it also. It’s sooo good!
YUM!! Going to try this
Us, kids, would have a stick of celery with peanut butter in it. Nice healthy snack.
My grandparents survived the depression. Some of my favorite foods were birthed in the kitchens of moms trying to feed their families. My dad gave us this a lot growing up and he was born in the 50s.
I love all these recipes! It's kind of funny because almost all these recipes are incorporated into our monthly menu. These meals have made it through 3 generations in my family and will keep passing them down.
Enjoyed the video...I use these recipes often. FIfty years worth of often.
I'm so excited, we are making the Depression Meatloaf tonight! I have a feeling my family will agree that it's a keeper - we'll see in an hour! Thank you for sharing these time-tested meals to make our money stretch.
The meatloaf with the bread is a good way to use up the heals of the bread loaf ❤
How inspiring! Thanks for sharing your bravery and ambition to try these older recipes. It teaches us so much.
My dad use to make us rice and milk for breakfast , feeding a family of 12 ,it went along way and was cheap enough to afford, he also loved rice pudding
My Mom would use the left over rice the next morning heated with milk or cream and add brown sugar or just sugar and cinnamon and fresh grated nutmeg for each person taste
We grew up eating the “egg gravy” as we called it. The only difference is that after we boiled the eggs, we separated the yolk from the white part and only put the cut up white part of the egg into the gravy. Then we would crumble the yolk part and sprinkle it over the toast with the gravy. Yum!
We did that in Home Ec...the yolk was the all-important garnish.
Eggs goldenrod
We ate creamed rice with cinnamon as the starch with our meals, like a substitute for mashed potatoes.
It wasn't quite as runny & the cinnamon was optional, even though we all sprinkled it on top.
I was born in 1950.
Love these videos. With prices going up and some shelves being empty, I often find myself thinking of my Nan and what she would have cooked back then. 😊 x x x
what did she cook ?
@@sarahmoviereviewer4109 depression era cooking recipes.
Me too! We will have to bring all that back, won't we?
I learned from Joy Of Baking that if you coat your raisins, blueberries, etc. it keeps them from ending up on the bottom.
Wow! That depression meatloaf is better than my own usually is. I never used valuable bacon 🥓 on mine. Sometimes add ketchup. Since it’s just me now it cooks faster in a muffin tin in the toaster oven.
I’m a “just me”, too. How many mini meatloaves do you get from 2 lbs. meat in standard muffin cups? What temp and how long do you bake in toaster oven? Love all these recipes!
In spring my children like egg gravy with small pieces of precooked asparagus in. My mother would cook and season macaroni, make sausage gravy and heat creamed corn from her freezer then we would layer it on our plate macaroni, sausage gravy and top with homegrown creamed corn. That was so delicious!
Grew up with all these recipes....
They are comfort foods to me.....
These recipes were made out of desperation in the depression...
May have to use them again soon !
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I am only 35 and I ate that rice cereal as a kid, we were very poor. It is really yummy. And I make sausage gravy all the time. My husband loves biscuits and gravy.
My family had the rice, milk, with cinnamon and sugar for dinner during the 1970's during the high stagflation because their was so much shrinkflation. We occasionally ate it for breakfast too.
I grew up with the rice one, put mum called it rice pudding, and instead of honey we'd have a teaspoon of strawberry jam
Love making rice pudding for l,m on very low income so easy cheap recipes help at moment have no meat,chicken,tuna etc so have to be creative.loved this video
I love when you do these Great Depression cooking videos! Making these biscuits and gravy tonight!
I can't wait to make her gravy !!!! Looks so delicious !!! Enjoy yours tonight !
@@marysexton8482 it was a hit at my house tonight! Everyone really like it! I even made some homemade biscuits to go with it!
My grandmother used to make the creamed eggs on toast for holiday & special occasions breakfasts. She grew up during the depression on a farm and was #11 of 13 children. I now make it with gluten free flour & toast along with lactose free milk and it's just as delicious.
Kimmy this is how we make our Christmas fruit cake, except we replace raisins with cut up gum drops it’s fabulous and easy 😋
Great recipes, thanks, your haircut is great!
I might be repeating myself. But I make grilled cheese meatloaf sandwiches with leftover meatloaf. Cut thin and add a little tomato sauce and of course cheese.
Yum!
Applesauce cake was my grandma's favorite!! I really love it too although I've never tried it with raisins. I don't know for sure if it's a depression era recipe but I know my great grandma LOVED rhubarb crunch and it's amazing if you haven't tried it. I think rhubarb is really easy to grow too. Anyway Definitely want to eat with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. 😋
my mom makes chip beef on toast. The beef comes in a jar, and she never made us eat it but she would have it on a night that we all were doing our own thing for dinners
We had this too! Also called SOS. We liked it and I’ll have to get some. I believe Stouffers has a frozen version!
Meatloaf tastes good with cream of mushroom soup too. In stead of ketchup. We always chopped up onion in it too.
In my family we've been doing warm rice with milk and sugar since I was a kid, I'm 60 now!
Wow, I’ve grown up eating all of that and fixing it at some point. 💛💛😄
I have also put the sausage gravy over toast, french fries, and potatoes of any kind.That meatloaf is fancy compared to my recipe, looks amazing! I use ground meat of any kind, ketchup, mustard and some oatmeal and an egg, season as you like. Love the applesauce cake recipe! am Eastern Orthodox and we have a lot of strict fasting days, vegan food only, and this is easily adapted to that!
My Mom always fixed rice, sugar with milk and we called that dessert!! Yum!! Still love it.
Oh my! I thought creamed eggs on toast was something only my Mom made! You are the first person I've ever heard that knew what they were! I'm 71 and my Mom use to make creamed eggs on toast for us. I still make occasionally. Thanks for the memory of my Mom.
My Nanny who is 98 always made an applesauce cake at Christmas which my dad said he loved. I got the recipe from my aunt and plan to surprise him during the holidays. I made a test run and it was delicious!
Way to go !!!!!
WOW! And to think I was raised on that stuff long after the depression! We didn't eat our rice with milk though . We only put milk in our cereal, or drank it. My husband ate rice with milk and hated it. So I told him to just eat it with the sugar and butter and even with cinnamon! He said, "But that's like eating a dessert!" Well, I'm for that! LOL! Mom never made creamed eggs, but she did put sausage in her gravy from time to time. I will try the meatloaf with the bread and milk. Mom made hers different; with a few crushed crackers rather than bread, and sometimes she'd add a can of drained mixed veggies. There's so many wonderful ways to make meatloaf! I will have to try the cake....just because it's different than what I make! I love to try new recipes, and so does my family! And thank you so much for cooking and sharing your recipes! Wish I could have been in your kitchen to help be a "taster"!
Sausage gravy over fried potatoes is delicious !
Hi Kimmie. I make a similar gravy to the saw mill gravy. I learned it from my mom. We serve it with mashed potatoes usually and just call it ground beef, gravy, and potatoes. Instead of milk, we use the water from the boiled potatoes. Then we make a flour slurry to thicken the gravy and gravy browning for colour. One of our favs.
My husbands grandmother (who is 92) makes something similar to the egg meal on toast. She boils the eggs to make them hard boiled. While they are cooking she makes a white gravy. Once the eggs are boiled she takes the shells off. Then takes the yolks out of the white part. Cut up the white part and put it on the toast. Top the egg whites with the gravy and put the yolks crumbles up on top. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. It is good. They call it stuff on toast.
My family was coal miner of Ky. We ate like great depression. Money was so tight.
I cube the bread first so the crust is easier to mash up. I use the thinner bread; that looks like the thicker more French toast bread I would use.
My parents lived during the depression si I ate a lit of recipes from that era and one of my favorite breakfast foods till this day is adding peanut butter to cooked rice. So good.
Ooh I’ll try that one. Thanks! What else did you have?
@@shesinherapron anything from scratch. I still cook that way. Anything out of the garden, raised our cows and pigs. My dad taught me how to cut up a chicken to be able to use the whole thing. Coremeal dumplings one of my favorites, they were spicy 😋
My mom used to eat the rice a lot when I was young. I've had it. It's really yummy even cold.
My grandma taught me how to make a rue as well as bisquits and gravy. It's my favorite.
Thank you for sharing.
@@charlottedenman7176 I would love your recipe for Cornmeal Dumplings! They sound amazing! Cooking things from our childhood really brings back great memories! Thank you!!!
My parents lived through the Depression too-they were teenagers. Some of my Mom’s recipes might’ve have been from that era.
My mom made this and we called it sausage gravy and biscuits . She added some dehydrated onion flakes and a little garlic powder . Try it cause it is delicious , All 4 of my boys and 1 daughter are grown and married and they all make this for their families .
Just love the depression recipes and they are so doable. Looks tasty too.
I bet you could use that meatloaf recipe with boxed stuffing and the milk and it would taste even better. I've heard a lot of people use box stuffing for their meatloaf instead of just the plain unseasoned bread.. maybe like the sage and herb one? I think I'll try that.
My mom always called the creamed eggs, eggs a la goldenrod. Lol. She grated a little bit of the hard-boiled egg on the top after putting the creamed mixture on the toast. Brought back memories of her. ❤️. Miss her.
My great granny always made rice pudding every time we had rice. It was one of my favorite desserts ever and still is. I loved it because whenever she made it I got to eat it for breakfast. As a kid having dessert for breakfast was the best thing ever. Now I need to make some rice pudding 🤣
My mom made it too, with raisins in it for dessert. I wasn’t a fan.🤢
I make a meal called water hamburger. You cook up ground beef and half a choped onion and salt and pepper. When the meat is cooked all the way,drain the grease. You add 1/2 cup of water. Heat until the water starts to boil. Turn off heat and serve over mashed potatoes and a side of vegetable.
My mom has been making the white sauce with eggs since I was a little girl. We had it as a camping breakfast except she served it over biscuits. I like to sprinkle mine with lots of black pepper. Yum!
I was born in 1949 but both of my parents were married in the height of the Great Depression and still ate a lot of foods that they learned or ate during that time as well. All of my grandparents were . shall we say, frugal and made use of every scrap of food. Nothing went to waste, but a lot went to WAIST. In any event here are some of the things that I remember.
Mom made meatloaf much like yours but not with bacon, since bacon and eggs for breakfast was a workday meal, with waffles or pancakes on the weekend. She did add some sliced celery (15 cents a bunch back then) and a can of drained diced stewed tomatoes with the juice served in small glasses as a starter to the meal. As to your rice dish, that was also a staple for breakfast and we would add raisins or muscats (white raisins) as some do for rice pudding. We also added a dollop of catsup to cooked white rice as a side dish. My grandmother made something called a "toad in the hole" . She would cut a circle into a piece of hot buttered toast and then drop a raw egg in the whole and fry both with grated cheese or sausage gravy over the top. BTW the secret to avoid lumpy gravy is to take a bowl and mix the milk at room temp with the flour or thickener stirring it until smooth and THEN adding it to the pan of oil or grease She also made skillet fried chicken with white gravy right from the pan.
Some other Depression recipes were baked onions. Mom would take large onions and hollow out about an inch of the diameter of the center and filling it with grated cheese cooking them in a water bath and serving with some sour cream on top. Dandelion salad- dandelions wilted with a hot cider vinegar, bacon grease and chopped bacon dressing and finished with chopped green onions and sliced hard boiled eggs was a regular menu item in the spring. My grandmother made a simple ahd quick spaghetti marinara by combining two small tins of tomato paste and water or wine , reducing it until thick and adding salt, garlic powder, and lots of fresh black pepper, serving it over spaghetti with a salad for lunch.
As for salads, father liked avocados cut in half and their cavities filled with chili sauce or ketchup. It's also good filled with small shrimp, mayo, a dash of chili powder or cocktail sauce, and a dash of lime or lemon juice. He learned about avocados in California and Hawaii during the war.
My favorite salad was my grandmother's potato salad made up of quartered or sliced boiled potatoes allowed to cool before slicing paired with thinly sliced celery with chopped leaves, thinly sliced scallions (green onions) and radishes and diced cooked bacon that has been allowed to soak in the vinegar, oil, salt and pepper dressing before serving . The dressing is then poured over the salad which has been allowed to cool in the refrigerator for a few hours and then the dressed salad is topped with some fresh chopped parsley and mixed well.
For desserts Jello with fruit cocktail was my Dad's favorite treat. Jello was a dime and there would always be a sale on can goods somewhere to stock up on fruit. We also had boxed pudding and ice cream. My favorite dessert came at Christmas time when my mother made cream puffs filled with home made vanilla filling and dusted with powdered sugar. If I helped set up the cooling racks for the two dozen that she made for Christmas dinner and the family who could not wait for Santa, I got to eat the left over filling.
Since we were Catholic and could not eat meat on Friday mom would make salmon patties from a can or two of canned jack salmon, crackers, eggs, chopped onion and celery, salt. pepper, and chopped parsley. She also made this then popular dish of tunafish mixed with cream of mushroom soup, peas, and made into a casserole with egg noodles topped with potato chips and baked. I called it tuna dejavu because ten minutes after I would eat it, I would belch and taste it all over again. Needless to say I REFUSED to eat it even under pain of death so I was relegated to a cheese toastie and a cup of tomato soup.
One of my aunts was hard up so she added quite a bit of veggies to her meatloaf to stretch the meat even more. As time went by they became more well off, so one day she made a classic meatloaf. She was totally surprised when her children didn’t like it and asked her to make the “good meatloaf” again. :-)
My Grandma said her family made a sawmill gravy with water and bacon grease no meat ,when things were especially tight of course!
I love this video and it reminds of my great grandma. However., I just want to mention it was so pleasing to see all the colorful dishes and mixing bowls.
My Mom lived threw depression and rations. Between her and my fathers mother I learned to use everything. Cream sause made everything go further. Eggs gravy, salmon pea wiggle, chipped beef or sausage gravy were surved often
Hi Kimmy I enjoyed this video so much. Just wanted to let you know in case you’re interested a great recipe from that era is country fried steak but to make it more cost effective you substitute hamburger meat for the steak. So 😋
I just love these kind of videos. I am 71 years old. My mom used to give us that rice dish for breakfast, but we added raisins to it. I still love it to this day. And the creamed eggs, I make it every year at Easter for my kids, we called it golden rod. It is so delicious.
All of it looks absolutely delicious 🤤…as for the sausage gravy, I like making a tater tots casserole (mixing frozen tater tots with cream of mushroom and then topped with plenty of cheese) and then after baking, add the sausage gravy over it ❤️ it’s a family favorite 😍
that’s a good idea. I have tots
Do you add milk to it or just mix it up?
forgot to tag you. I have everything you mentioned.
@@pantryonlyrecipes hey yes it’s a good and easy and filling meal! No milk needed just mixing the tater tots with with a can or two of cream of mushroom (depending on how many tater tots you use - enough for a light coating of every tater tot) then add salt and pepper, then cheese on top and bake in oven covered for (I’m guessing 20 min at 350) then remove aluminum foil and bake for another 10 ish minutes or until cheese is melted and golden and bubbly 😊 hope you are enjoying it, if so let me know plz 😊
What a great idea! Thanks!
Cream egg on toast - I grew up with this meal! It is good to add ground sausage to it too. We also tore up the bread and then put the gravy over it (think sacrament bread size). Sooooo good and cheap! Got me through college
I absolutely love your hair. Looks beautiful on you. Thanks for sharing these recipes. The first one reminded me of my grandmom. She used to take day old Italian bread and dunk it in coffee. That was her breakfast on daily basis. When I was little she would give me little coffee(heavily sweetened)in a bowl and let me dunk. I remember it was good. Thanks for sharing your ideas and recipes.
We cut our toast in diamonds and have any veggie you like it’s my nephews favorite dinner the creamed eggs . Use canned milk on your rice tastes richer . Like the frozen biscuits at Sams the best . The cake is good with dried cranberries also and a pat of butter when you don’t have ice cream or icing. Great video ! You are so pretty 🤩!
My mom also made creamed eggs on
Toast.please do more
Depression recipes or
WW 11ones also interesting ones there
Too,with lots of veggies
Because of gardens.
Love the recipes! I’m Mexican and our family always makes arroz con leche(rice with milk) it’s a staple in most Mexican or Hispanic homes. Delicious!
The "eggsauce" is something that Swedes eat to boiled potatoes and boiled white fish, like cod. I grew up to that eggsauce.
If you have never tried it try making biscuits and gravy with bacon gravy! I can't eat sausage so that is how I make it and hubby adores it:)
I love bacon gravy yummy
Omg , yes! Creamed Eggs on Toast! My grandma and mom used to always make this for me. They have both passed so this recipe is close to my heart! ❤️
My mom always made it around easter time (gotta do SOMETHING with all those eggs!) I make it still.
Rice Cereal, yay first youtuber I've seen share this. I didn't realize this was a great depression food, my mom gave it to us when we were kids, except we did brown sugar, milk, butter and rice. Sometimes instead of rice we did corn meal, or cracked wheat grains from lds distribution.
My father in law would call it cornmeal mush, and we enjoyed it together, as no one else liked it.
@@cherylcook1942 yep cornmeal mush, that's what we called it too. So yummy. We would take the leftover mush poured it into a loaf pan put it in fridge until it jelled, then slice and fry it up and eat it like pancakes. Soo good.
My Grandma always made her meatloaf with bread slices.So good! These are all wonderful! Love the bowls you mixed the meatloaf in. May I ask where you got them?
If bread was low we added rice very good
When my Mom (grew up during in the depression and got married toward the last year or so of it) they I will post her recipe; she always once the meatloaf was cooked would save the drained off fat & juice and use it to make a soup base. I did want to say something about you using so much bacon unless you raised pigs or could trade something for bacon it was rationed so no one would use that much bacon on top at time I don't even think 1 or 2 slices they would save it for a special breakfast. I know both my fathers family & my Mother's family would keep some bacon for their family from each pig they would raise and they tried to raise at least 1 a year; but also sold it or trade it if possible with other farmers. .
I was a child, bout 60 yrs ago and my mother made a white sauce with boiled eggs and frozen peas. She added a curry to it and then she served over rice. With fried chicken, wow the memories, always good. Thank you. Patricia
Oh my gosh, where have you been all my life? 😅👍❤💥
Side note: I use oats instead of bread for the meatloaf and it works great! And stewed tomatoes with the juice instead of canned milk! 😋
The oats expand with the juices of the meat.
Loving the Depression Era recipe videos!
Yum! My grandma used to make applesauce cake and sometimes raw apple cake.
She is the real deal. An excellent page. She shows you how toooo cook grate meals and save money doing it.
We called them Goldenrod eggs growing up. A loaf of bread and dozen eggs would feed us all dinner. So yummy. Mom would take the separate yolks from the whites (after cooked and peeled) and push through a sifter to make a fine sprinkle for the top. 🥚 🍞
I make the gravy quite often. It's so good. My mom also taught me how to do it using bacon which is awesome too. She grew up with her mom frying chicken then pouring the gravy over it instead of the biscuits. I'm loving these great depression videos and am glad you are doing these. I tried the Wacky cake with the help of my little girl and it was amazing.
Great recipes for my prepper pantry. I dehydrate my cooked white rice and always have it handy for one of my husband’s favorite evening dessert of sweet rice. It’s easy to hydrate my rice with hot water in a thermos a half hour before serving it to save fuel in the future. I don’t add the butter but will definitely be letting him try it with the honey. Thank you for that idea!