You can substitute using what you have in the house or garden already. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the great depression. From frugal depression era desserts to common dinner recipes from the great depression, here is a list of 16 affordable and delicious recipes to try at. Video 1great depression cooking dandelion saladyoutube 5. Great depression cooking with clara dandelion salad. Welcome back to another episode of hard times where i make recipes from times of food scarcity.
Great depression cooking clara cannucciari dandelion salad. It is a recipe that she made up during the depression for a jewish family that she cooke. Not only does it provide tasty recipes like grandma used to make but youll find interesting tidbits of information on how things went back in those days, historical trivia and i love the illustrations from back then. Okay, the dandelion is believed to be an annoying weed. Dig up dandelions and discard flowers, roots and dead leaves. This is our favorite cookout dish, and its very good served with a salad. Enter claras kitchen, the cookbook by calogera bonfani cannucciari or clara cannucciari for short whose sole focus is on sharing depression era italian american recipes and stories. Now you can finish cooking the dish by boiling it or letting it cook by. Cook carrots and potatoes until medium soft and then mix gently together in bowl with a little margarine, salt, pepper and herbs. Great depression cooking dandelion salad 94 year old cook, author and great grandmother, clara, recounts her childhood during the great depression as she prepares meals from the era. Clara doesnt mention salt, but i think the loaves would taste flat without it.
Go out and pick your own flowers for the dandelion salad. Great depression cooking dandelion salad and other cooking recipes from that era given by clara age cooking on a tight budget isnt easy, so we look to great depression recipes for inspiration, sharing really simple easytomake recipes that are affordable 28 surprisingly. But if you love carrot cake, then youll definitely want to try this recipe because you can now have it in cookie form. This recipe originated here in my hometown in the 1930s. A dish that is a favorite of preppers and wilderness experts alike, dandelion salad is nutritious and can be made with simple greens foraged from any neighborhood. Depressionera recipes that are good enough to eat today. My mom told me her motherinlaw showed her how to make this dish, which became popular during the depression, on their get acquainted visit in 1927.
Aug 14, 2009 94 year old cook and great grandmother, clara, recounts her childhood during the great depression as she prepares meals from the era. From the one kid who is ultra picky and wont eat anything that has green in it, to the spouse who is a fan of meat and potatoes and little else, finding ways to remain inspired in the kitchen can be tough. Divide the pastry into 4 pieces and roll out each one into a round. Making a cake out of applesauce made more sense during the depression because the ingredients were cheaper.
Claras great depression dandelion salad hard times. The great depression caused many hardships, but the cuisine that came from it proves how resilient people can truly be. My original inspiration in this was the great depression era and the cooking show i saw on youtube by clara cannucciari of claras kitchen. Great depression foods that helped americans survive famine. Great depression era real food recipes more with less mom. It is also a richer source of vitamins a and c than spinach and tomatoes. However, at the same time, it has a long history of acting as a therapeutic herb for healing swelling, upset stomach, skin issues, eye issues, diarrhea, and heartburn. Strong family ties, hard work, and good oldfashioned cooking sustained folks through the 1930s reminisce books amazon link hard times cookbook with back to basics great depression cooking. This recipe has a few more ingredients than most depression era recipes do. They made soups from nothing, and this book will tell you how to make your own chicken with dumplings, chuck wagon stew, old fashioned beef or pork pot pies using biscuit dough.
Jun 26, 2019 this pecan pie is easy and delicious to make, plus it was a great recipe for the depression era. This corn chowder is made with just corn, potatoes, chicken broth, evaporated milk, onion and butter. These are the most wellknown recipes from great depression food, when. Wagner, lisa wagner, adventure publications, incorporated, 1989, 0934860556, 9780934860550, 176 pages.
Depression era recipes to bring your cooking back to. Hoover stew i have seen many variations of this depression era stew so dont be married to the ingredients. Aug 17, 2009 cook carrots and potatoes until medium soft and then mix gently together in bowl with a little margarine, salt, pepper and herbs. These depressionera recipes are proof that food from the 1930s is worth revisiting.
Another meal, if you had enough ration stamps, was to take a can of spam and bake it with tomato sauce. Depressionrecession era cooking okay, so i have shared with you that i am going to cook recipes for this time of recession. Hamburger sos is a cheaper version of chipped beef that is a classic depression era recipe. Strong family ties, hard work, and good oldfashioned cooking sustained folks through the 1930s reminisce books amazon link. In prepahead meals from scratch, i set out to redefine convenience food by sharing 100 quick and easy recipes, offer speedy food prep techniques, and share money saving shopping strategies and meal planning tips.
From frugal depression era desserts to common dinner recipes from the great depression, here is a list of 16 affordable and delicious recipes to try at home. Depression era jew salad recipe from a friends grandmother. Video 1great depression cooking dandelion salad youtube. Eggless cakes are the big draw of this era dont worry they taste fantastic without eggs. See more ideas about dandelion salad, one step forward and ant crafts. Try these depression era recipes to stretch your grocery budget without compromising on flavor. The dandelion was a good meal to have during the depression because it was free and its good for you, she says.
Learn about the depression era, how grandma cooked, and enjoy simple, basic cooking. It contains items like butter, honey, eggs, raisins, nuts, and rolled oats. Course evaluation 1 each video will stop when it is finished. May, 2016 try these depression era recipes to stretch your grocery budget without compromising on flavor. Premeditated leftovers prepahead meals, cooking tips, and. Depression era recipes cookbook holidayseasonal cooking. These depression era recipes are proof that food from the 1930s is worth revisiting. Clara was a teenager living in chicago with her italian american family during the great depression and recounts her parents journey from palermo sicilia. These 9 depressionera recipes taste so good youll want to try.
Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening. Claras kitchen wisdom, memories, and recipes from the. For another depression era dish, check the depression era cereal on my page. The only thing depression era about this book are the words in the title. Naturally, this dandelion salad is one of those meals. Sep 14, 2019 great depression foods dandelion salad. We personally assess every book s quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Clara was a teenager living in chicago with her italian american family during the great depression and recounts her parents journey from palermo sicilia, her familys struggle to earn money, and. Depression era recipes to bring your cooking back to basics. Claras kitchen goodreads meet your next favorite book.
Strong family ties, hard work, and good oldfashioned. Clara cannucciari has a blog, a facebook account and an online cooking show, great depression cooking. Finally, enjoy a cheap, sweet depression era dessert. This was my mothers, it has sugar, but no eggs, no butter and no milk its from the depression era. People at the time were forced to find cheap and creative ways to use food efficiently, resulting in some dishes you may not think of making today, but that was what the resources of the time allowed for. Because the authors need to create the context in which to understand the depression, they have to describe the history of food in the us, at least from the civil war era onward. For another depression era dish, check the depressionera cereal on my page. The depression was not fun, the late youtube star, clara cannucciari, states in the very first episode of her great depression cooking web series, above. With salt, pepper, and vinegar to taste when available, dandelion salad was both tasty and a way to add vital nutrients to the dinner menu without spending a cent. This is a recipe that was passed on to me by a friends grandmother. But shes surely the envy of many a starryeyed young foodie. Cream of potato soup is a recipe from the great depression era that we all still enjoy very much today.
If you dont use canned veggies you will want to reserve some of. Well minus the bacon and all the extra cheese in my recipe. Our meat preference for speidis is venison, but we use chicken. Through my research of depression era recipes, i realized that dessert was a big deal to them during this time, and did they ever know how to make some delicious desserts out of very few ingredients. I often wonder what would happen if todays generations had to suffer those hard times. Finally, enjoy a cheap, sweet depressionera dessert. Her recipes may not be professionally styled, but theyre simple, nutritious, and undeniably cheap especially dandelion salad. This was my mothers, it has sugar, but no eggs, no butter and no milk its from the depression era recipe depression era cookies.
For so many of us, cooking every day has become a chore. In a large mixing bowl, cream the lard and brown sugar together. See more ideas about dandelion, herbalism and dandelion recipes. Depression era recipes by patricia wagner is a wonderful collection of recipes written by the women who learned to adapt and cope with the depression. From the one kid who is ultra picky and wont eat anything that has green in it, to the spouse who is a fan of meat and potatoes and little else, finding ways to remain. This morning, while researching dandelions, i found myself face to face with clara cannucciari a 94yearold woman who, in a series of webcasts, describes and prepares the food her family ate during the great depression.
Weird great depression food that reflects 1930s recipes. At that time, cooks measured ingredients in pinches, dashes and dibs. In claras kitchen, she gives readers words of wisdom to buck up americas spirits, recipes clara cannucciari is a 94 yearold internet sensation. And now with the way things are going we need for a little recipes. Her first recipepasta with peaswould likely give your average urbane foodie hives, as would her knife skills, but clara, who started making these videos when she was 93, takes obvious satisfaction in the outcome. It is just eggs, milk, vanilla extract, flour, salt, and baking powder.
In the depression days people went to the woods to gather their berries for cooking. By batch cooking, you can prep the ingredients for multiple familyfriendly meals at once, ultimately saving time and money. Dandelion salad is great in spring when theyre first out. Forced to live in poverty and sometimes squalor due to the floundering economy and lack of money, these families invented methods for creating hearty and healthy meals with minimal and inexpensive ingredients. In a large bowl, combine dandelion greens and onions. Make a classic depression meat loaf with this recipe from moms who think. Cooking on a tight budget isnt easy, so we look to great depression recipes for inspiration, sharing really.
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