depression recipe

[hayu]

My mother bought me a cookbook that has recipes from the great depression for Christmas. Here's a recipe fm it.

Hard Times Coffee

Mix well 2qts. wheat bran and 1pt. yellow corn meal. Add 3 well beaten eggs and 1c sorghum molasses. Beat well, spread on pan and put in dry oven, on very low heat. (Wood stoves were kept warm at all times.) Take great care to stir often while browning. A handful is enough for two people.

[Penny]

What an interesting recipe, i woudl love to find that cookbook, i bet there are some good recipes in there,

[needmoresoil]

Me to! What is the name of the book?

[beautifulbay]

I'd like to find that one too ... Sounds so interesting

[hayu]

One book is Stories and Recipes of the Great Depression of the 1930's and Low-Fat Pantry Cooking volume 2. Its by Rite Van Amber and Janet Van Amber-Paske

Another one is Forgotten Recipes it has some dating back to the late 1800's.

[eliza28]

Oh my I think I might just stick with roasted dandelion roots and chicory. But it is interesting what you can accomplish when necessary.

[needmoresoil]

I am gonna have to look those up. I imagine those are a bit more healthy than todays recipes. Especially if todays includes mcdonalds.

[hayu]

This is another favorite It's from Fredericksburg Tx. Fredericksburg Community
Cook Book. As you might have guessed it's has German cooking. It has great recipes also how to field dress a deer, quail etc. How to make your own catfish dough, to old recipes for cleaning things and illness.

It's why I like Rubens, German sausage and veggies, and black bread.

[eliza28]

You should check out the Foxfire books (I only find them at the library) they are series from a magazine? that documented the people in southern Appalachia. I think they were a group of students in a project. So many helpful hints and tips.

Also the edible wild plants and herbs books are great. I never knew that I had so many plants in my yard I could eat.

[marasri]

My mother in law is german and she uses a cook book that is for wartime recipes with the rationing that they had in Germany both during and in the years of famine just after the war. That is what she learned on and it is still the core of her cooking. Her husband was in labor and concentration ( estonian) camps during the war, so he always thought she was an extravagant cook. Nettles were very rare. LOL. Making do without it is all a matter of perspective. When they married, she took her upstairs neighbors lace curtains and Did a "Tara" and made a wedding dress and she had them back up on her neighbors windows the very next day. She was gorgeous in it in their photos.

[eliza28]

Oh that is so sweet!!!! The fancy wedding isn't the point the love is and that makes the BEST wedding!

Our neighbor last year laughed when he saw kidos & me collecting dandelion greens and flowers. He asked what we were doing then was surprised when we told him we eat them because he remembered that there were times when that was all his family had to eat for the week. He assured us that when things got worse there would be many who will have no idea what to do.

By the way do they have a thread on edible wild foods??