20 Depression-Era Foods That VANISHED From The Family Table!

20 Depression-Era Foods That VANISHED From The Family Table!
#greatdepression #forgotten #nostalgia
Can you picture the types of meals families relying on during the tough times of the Great Depression? With no item wasted, innovative and unexpected food combinations were formed. See how necessity led to creative outcomes. Here we go!
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:15 Hoover Stew
1:07 Mock Apple Pie
1:58 Cornmeal Mush
2:47 Dandelion Salad
3:38 Vinegar Pie
4:29 Potato Pancakes
5:22 Boiled Carrot Sandwich
6:13 Prune Pudding
6:50 Egg Drop Soup
7:38 Cabbage And Noodles
8:28 Bean Soup
9:13 Milk Toast
10:05 Creamed Chipped Beef On Toast
10:58 Oatmeal Cakes
11:50 Squirrel Stew
12:37 Depression Cake
13:34 Corned Beef Hash
14:26 Potato Soup
15:03 Apple Brown Betties
15:54 Hominy
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[@VintageLifestyleUSA]

Which Depression-era recipes did you ever tried making at home?

[@stephanieb1196]

Hi, I tried quite a few like potato pancakes and depression cake. I had mock apple pie growing up. Depression recipes have always interested me and I tried some before the pandemic. But they were especially useful during it. I tried several others from the “Great Depression Cooking” with Clara videos and a depression cookbook my friend loaned me. I made cookies, scrambled eggs made to stretch by adding crumbled saltines etc. I still use some. If anyone is curious about the recipes, I suggest they try a few.

[@Sparkina]

Cornmeal mush is still a thing. Ever heard of grits? How about POLENTA? (They even have polenta premade in a plastic tube thingy)

[@Sparkina]

Potato pancakes are delish!!!!! My grandmother made potato pancakes that were absolutely divine!!! I once ate FIVE AT ONE SITTING

[@Sparkina]

Egg drop soup can still be found on most Chinese restaurant menus

[@Sparkina]

Bean soup sounds tasty

[@stephanieb1196]

Hello, My father was born in California and is 96 years old now. He had 6 siblings and my Grandmother fed her family of 9 very cleverly during the depression. My father had creamed chipped beef regularly. During the pandemic I enjoyed trying depression recipes when my usual food items were not always available. I felt I was learning a lot from their example. I admire the ingenuity of people who made the most of what they had during difficult times!

[@cynthiamurphy3669]

I definitely agree! As a retired senior. I'm getting $50 of free mostly canned goods because of my Aetna Medicare Advantage (which I never requested but definitely get a kick out of and am grateful for). I'm enjoying adding these things to my pantry and experimenting with canned salmon, ham, corned beef, spam, tuna, mackerel, and some different canned fruits. We sure did have chipped beef on toast when I was a kid; my dad always joked about it and enjoyed. I've seen chipped beef, corned beef, ham, chicken and turkey packets that are cheap, and it's not hard to do a simple gravy or make a cold salad dish with the canned meats/fish. I make a simple pie or shortcake with the canned fruits. Always gives me very pleasant memories of my grandmothers. One died fairly young, the other lived to be 96 and loved canned ham. I loved hanging out in their homes when I was a kid; they lived nearby us. I hardly ever eat out anymore, fast food or restaurants), even though I can afford to. The last few times, I thought what I bought was just lousy for the elevated prices (McDonald's and Bob Evans food).

[@kathyracine1903]

My Dad called chipped beef meal *hit on a shingle lol

[@sallycormier1383]

We had creamed dried beef on toast when I was growing up in the 60’s and 70’s. The small glass that the dried beef came in was recycled as a juice glass. My favorite breakfast in college before heading to clinical for my nursing degree was creamed dried beef on toast. It kept you warm in the snowy cold winters of Niagara Falls, NY where I went to school.

[@cynthiaoconnor7185]

I also grew up in the 60s and 70s. I was able to get chipped beef in gravy on toast and I loved it. I really don't understand why so many people vilify it. It was warm, delicious and filling.

[@christinewild5935]

That was a thrifty treat meal when i was a kid. I still see little jars of the chip beef now and then.

[@Dindasayswhynot]

​@@cynthiaoconnor7185people vilify things because everyone else does the same, .just sheep following other sheep.

[@ttselha64]

Loved creamed chipped beef on toast. You can jazz it up with herbs, etc.

[@claudiayates7621]

Same for me, but in Finger Lakes, NY.

[@catherinemelnyk]

Potato pancakes are popular worldwide. Latkes AKA.

[@margueritarotcas9539]

Lithuanians still make potato pancakes … I’m 50% Lithuanian and I have eaten it!

[@martybee6701]

Poland also. Placki. Pronounced platz-key. Truly delicious.

[@margueritarotcas9539]

@@martybee6701 Now I’m getting hungry … LOL!

[@kettch777]

Yup. Polish, German, Jewish, Lithuanian, Estonian...all of these cultures and more regularly have potato pancakes.

[@beckypatton8557]

So is wacky cake which is basically the same thing as depression cake. My brother in law made one of those many many years ago and it was way after the depression.

[@vlrissolo]

My mother taught my younger brother how to make egg drop soup and he put eggs in every soup he made and it really was delicious❤ RIP my beautiful Eric

[@robertsteele474]

I bet he didn't put bread in it like the video describes.

[@vlrissolo]

@@robertsteele474 oh hell no, but chicken! ... soggy bread, oh my.

[@gloriousjohnson1807]

❤😢

[@stephanieb1196]

Hello again, I will have to ask my Father about Hoover stew. I do know my grandfather worked on the Hoover Dam during the depression. He was willing to do most anything to support his family during the depression and appreciated having a job. My father said he would come home every few months to spend time with his family.

[@cl5080]

My Mommy is 101, and she said that she had it good, even during the Depression. With today’s economy, I believe her. Those old ingredients that used to be cheap are actually UNAFFORDABLE today.

[@kettch777]

Not all of these have disappeared. Potato pancakes are still very much a thing. So is cabbage and noodle stir fry. Egg drop soup is popular at Chinese restaurants under its more common name, egg flower soup. Potato soup, bean soup, and corned beef hash are less common, but they're still around. Most American diners with soup on the menu will have potato soup and bean soup on the menu rotation.

[@claudiayates7621]

I still eat more than half of these dishes on a somewhat regular basis: egg drop soup, hash (I like roast beef best), apple Betty, beans & greens, potato pancakes (I like apple sauce & sour cream on mine), chipped beef on toast, got thru college on "tube steaks & rubber bands" (hot dogs & elbow noodles, see Hoover stew), grits (ground hominy) every Saturday, squirl stew (I use rabbit) every Fall. A real depression recipe is Sauerkraut Cookies: meant to emulate chocolate coconut macaroons, they were egg less cookies with powdered cocoa & the "coconut" was well drained (patted dry) finely chopped sauerkraut (only worked on a texture level).

[@truthseeker243]

Very edifying (historically). Thank you. Much respect for people who creatively make do, and remain good humans . God bless us.

[@rogertemple7193]

Some of these foods I have eaten and liked others I didn't like I really enjoyed potato pancakes with butter or cheese on them Thanks for the Memories. 🥔🥔🥔🥔

[@martybee6701]

Did Bubble'n'Squeak ever make it big in USA ? Did in UK. Basically consists of yesterday's mashed potato fried up in lard till crispy , with yesterday's cabbage,onions, or anything else which came to hand, salt & pepper . Something of an acquired taste, but once you get used to it can be quite moreish. Derives its name from the sound it makes cooking in the pan.

[@justmejenny7986]

Never heard of it. Sounds good to me though.

[@Miss_Kisa94]

Nah it's not very popular here but you'll find it in communities with a history of a lot of Irish immigrants

[@RobertHowe-zv7gs]

Corn Meal Mush is still a good "poor man's" breakfast.

[@Subgunman]

Also known as polenta in Italy. Made with chicken stock and a ton of Parmigiano cheese and not the stuff that comes in that green cardboard tube.

[@robertsteele474]

@@Subgunman The video showed Polenta. Corn Meal Mush did not use any cheese. It prepared and served more like Oatmeal or Cream of Wheat or Cream of Rice.

[@1leadvocal]

@@Subgunman Also known as "grits" in the US south. Don't tell anyone who enjoys polenta, though. They hate grits with a passion. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Subgunman]

Doesn’t matter how you prep it, it’s still good eating!

[@BLACKVIKNGS88]

Polish pancakes are also called latkes. 7:54

[@natashkafromgrapa]

Or they were called platskies English phonetics spelling.

[@martybee6701]

When I was there it was called Placki (platz-key)

[@joshuawells5953]

I make and eat all of these foods regularly.

[@lapetitemaison4219]

Me too.

[@marybegley3393]

Beans are still cooked in many homes. And, offered in restaurants.

[@marylist1236]

Potato pancakes are still made, it was one of my favorite suppers, but I didn't like grating potatoes, because, no matter how carefully you grated them, you still nicked your knuckles. Milk toast is toasted, buttered bread broken into heated milk, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, or if you were feeling poorly, salt & pepper, with a poached egg

[@user-ql1kn8yw1u]

Okay I thought I was the only one to grate and sheard anything with out turning what was to have been a purely vegetarian meal... okay I'm joking but I've grated too many a knuckle

[@mimic1176]

Yeah, what was shown here was French toast, not milk toast! I have to wonder about who does the research for this series.

[@Mark-ki7ic]

Mom made Hoover Stew macaroni and tomato without the hotdog rounds and paired with ground meat patties. These recipes extended into the 40s because of the rationing of WW2, Dad didn't allow chipped beef on toast ie s**t on a shingle because of the war

[@angel196989]

my dad was in Vietnam and served in the navy and SOS was never on our table either

[@MargaretKearsey-dv1nk]

My .other would not allow Spam in thr house because of the war.

[@rcaraway1]

Cornmeal mush= polenta my grandma apparently would put the leftovers in empty cans put in the refrigerator and slice and fry the next morning, these slices were treated as pancakes.

[@FixinToFish]

We used to eat corn mush too. We fried it the next day. Good to see someone else knows about it.

[@Teow_of_Meow]

I was raised by a depression grandmother. So learned to be resourceful use leftovers and repurpose. Fried mush is pretty tasty.

[@claudiayates7621]

Mush or grits are both tasty & a base for sweet or savory sides.

[@Teow_of_Meow]

@@claudiayates7621 yep. I love malto meal which is like grits with an egg yolk and cream or whole milk and butter a little sugar turns into a breakfast custard. My kids loved it as well.

[@CHCLA6779]

I still have my grandmother's recipe for mock apple pie - and my mom would make it sometimes in the 50s, as both she and dad remembered it fondly from growing up in the Depression. Sadly, my mother also made a lot of casseroles with loads of pasta, canned tomatoes, to stretch out ground beef to feed our family of 6. Bless her, she had no clue about seasoning and she always stretched it further by adding celery. To this day I can't eat cooked celery and combine it with pasta.....I'm out the door.

[@wolfdoctor13]

I still eat Hoover Stew, SOS, soup beans, dandelion salad, corned beef hash, potato soup, and hominy. My mother & grandmothers all baked vinegar pie, but buttermilk pie was more often since we had buttermilk after churning butter. And milk toast was one of my favorites for breakfast as a kid. My family hunted & fished, as well. We ate many variations of dishes cooked with squirrel, rabbit, deer, dove, quail, and wild turkey. Fish fries were a huge family affair. We also foraged for huckleberries, dewberries, blackberries, muscadines, plums, and dandelions.

[@justmejenny7986]

I have never heard of a few of those. Heard of huckleberries. Never tried one. Wondering what part of the country you grew up in. I'm in New York. Used to look for blackberries when I was little.

[@elizlikethequeen]

Muscadines are the taste of my childhood! I drink them in fermented juice form nowadays....😊 Muscadine wine is a thing of beauty.

[@claudiayates7621]

When in Penn., I usually get Scrapple (I like apples over raisins). One of my fav pies is Fruit of the Forest (cherries, apples & various berries); never exactly the same, as the fruits vary by what can be gathered/ripen.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I've always been intrigued by the mock apple pie. Someday I'm going to make it.

[@AB2B]

We still have several of these foods, so they haven't disappeared. Brown Betties are still a big thing at cookouts and potlucks in my area.

[@giacomorestivo5210]

cream chip beef is still common in baltimore

[@sharonhutchinson9604]

Prune cake was my dad's favorite! It's pretty good. He would often cook up a pot of beans on a Saturday morning and I loved those too.

[@donnalynnmcclary8027]

Corned beef hash and fried eggs is still one of my very favorite meals. I love hominy too.

[@80TME]

I make 'depression cake' all the time. I've done chocolate, banana, lemon, snickeredoodle, vanilla and gingerbread. It's a versatile base for any flavour combination.

[@rms5993]

We ate several of these in the 70's, and I make potato pancakes, they're just known by different names, latke being the most familiar probably. Chipped beef on toast, bean soup, potato soup, corned beef hash, milk toast is good if someone's had a tooth pulled....I still make all those. I don't know why you think they've disappeared.

[@danielled1720]

My father grew up in Washington state during the depression. He had plenty of vegetables and fish.vThe only questionable thing was rhubarb juice without sugar. Rhubarb grew plentiful. My mother was in the middle of the dust bowl. Very few things grew because the top soil was gone. They often went hungry. Dandelion and squirrel soup was a common meal. If they were really lucky, they would get bread and milk. When the bread became to hard to eat, they would mix it with a little milk and honey. I'm amazed she lived through the depression.

[@Kellz58]

My dad used to throw all his leftovers in a pot and call it "swamp" lol he grew up in the great depression and we didn't waste anything. He created some amazing new dishes that way ❤

[@violetqueen450]

My dad made chipped beef on toast but he called it dried beef gravy and we ate it on biscuits. I loved it!

[@renmuffett]

We never called it Hoover stew. We called it Goulash. Mock apple pie actually dates to the mid-1800s. During the wintertime when apples were scarce and dried apple stores were used up, inventive home cooks would instead use soda crackers or stale bread. John T. Edge in his book Apple Pie (2004) also says that though the recipe does appear in southern cookbooks of the era such as What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking (1881) or the Confederate Receipt Book (1863) it is not a “Southern dish born of Civil War deprivation” as many would believe. He cited an 1852 California pioneer talking about making mock apple pie for their family.

[@justmejenny7986]

Goulash is a little different.

[@ourfamilysvarietyshow]

I still eat soup beans because I grew up on them and I still eat egg drop soup and potato cakes i still eat squirrel and deer and rabbit

[@btetschner]

A+ video! LOVE IT! Awesome Depression-Era foods!

[@jeanetterodgers4199]

I feel like a lot of people still love potato pancakes!😊

[@relaxingvideostofallasleep1303]

Lets see in the past month I've made a version of hoover stew, dandelion salad, potato pancakes, egg drop soup, bean soup, and potato soup. I must live in the great depression or be poor but enjoying good tasting food

[@coderspy]

"Milk Toast" is now called French Toast, and is still very popular.

[@robertsteele474]

Milk toast and French toast are two different things. The video and narration is do not match as is often the case with videos on this channel.

[@martybee6701]

Apparently the French call it English toast !!

[@coderspy]

@@robertsteele474My grandmother always called French toast "milk bread". After googling the difference, it depends of the recipe, with some using just toast and sweetened milk, and others are just like French toast.

[@robertsteele474]

@@coderspy Yep, that is the way I remember milk bread.

[@robertsteele474]

@@martybee6701 👍😁

[@angelwestbrook716]

Hoover stew is called goulash and cornmeal mush is called grits now and people still enjoy this today!

[@albywhitelady]

Honestly, I don't see how these are all Depression foods. I still eat some of them and I am not American. It just goes to show that many people never really endured hardship.

[@bugmeep]

Sort of an ignorant conclusion to draw. It moreso comes down to cultural differences & the fact that most of these have vegetable ingredients that were home grown and therefore “dirt cheap”. No one wants a boiled carrot sandwich. I grew up eating some silly things due to poverty like beans and toast, hotdog and sauerkraut. Not unappetizing or abnormal on a broader spectrum, just not a cultural norm here.

[@TheRealWattLife]

These recipes and ways of life are more important than ever as we enter into the next great depression.

[@peggyannparkes1863]

My favorite cake is Depression Cake. We call it "Grandma's Wacky Cake." Top it with 7 minute icing and I'm in heaven!

[@joaopedrobaggio4475]

Seeing how things are going bad in the USA, i think that these dishes will make come back very fast.

[@thaisstone5192]

I live in the USA and am doing fine. Where did you hear that rubbish??? You sound more like a conspiracy theorist than a food fancier.

[@ktkat1949]

Sorry don't understand your comment. the USA has the best economy under Joe Biden it has had for decades. Other countries including mine are envious at how well the Americans are doing. The fact that you think things are bad means you are living in a GOP bubble

[@joaopedrobaggio4475]

@@ktkat1949 if there are anyone living in bubble, this one is only you.

[@justmejenny7986]

Guess you're well off then. Because the price of gasoline and food prices is making me live paycheck to paycheck. Not fun.

[@joaopedrobaggio4475]

@@justmejenny7986 are you thinking that i am joking about it? I know that this is not fun.

[@lemoncrinckles]

Many, many years ago my mom was a cook in a restaurant. Her specialty was German sauerbraten done the authentic way. Along with the meat she served fresh made potato pancakes and applesauce. Everyone loved the meal.

[@user-fg4fr2bz5y]

love these videos!!😮❤

[@StamperWendy]

Thanks!

[@aliciachristopher6506]

I eat dandelion greens now. They are delicious pickled. I don't know why you don't find them in grocery stores, picked and washed.

[@claudiayates7621]

Our Co-op has many greens available; dandelions, turnips, mustard, collards ...also Leeks & ramps.

[@stephaniechaney4584]

I love the chip beef with white gravy on toast still make it today.

[@lapetitemaison4219]

Wow, almost everything-minus a couple items, we love and eat all the time now days. About the only one we don't do is the boiled carrot sandwich. They might have been from the Depression, but they haven't vanished.

[@rogertull8888]

BEING UNEMPLOYED I SOMETIMES MAKE WHAT I CALL LOAVES AND FISHES STEW TOGETHER: 1 KG MINCE BEEF, 2 CANS OF CHICK PEAS, 1 CAN OF KIDNEY BEANS, 1 BUNCH CELERY, 1 ONION, 4 LARGE CARROTS, TOMATOES ARE OPTIONAL THEN SERVED EITHER RICE OR PASTA THIS MEAL CAN EITHER FEED 6- 8 PEOPLE OR MYSELF FOR 6- 8 MEALS

[@justmejenny7986]

Interesting name. It doesn't have fish or bread. Lol. Sounds good though.

[@beckypatton8557]

Wacky cake is basically the same thing as depression cake. People still make wacky cakes.

[@danicegewiss862]

We love cornmeal mush in our house. I grew up eating it and introduced it to my husband who loves it too. Hoover stew is not horrible. We eat that on occasion. Potato pancakes are yummy. More fancier. There is nothing more fancier than fancier.

[@clarsach29]

Potato pancakes are what the Irish call "Boxty" and I am sure the recipe came to the States with Irish immigrants...some recipes use a mix of raw grated and cooked mashed potato, but either way they are cheap, tasty and filling and can accompany everything from fish to roast beef....or just have them on their own with a dab of butter or some gravy

[@rcaraway1]

My mom will search in a grocery store forever to find the little glass containers of dried beef for chipped beef.

[@socksal]

Bonus free juice glasses, too.

[@kathy.7475]

I grew up on that chipped beef. My husband refused to eat it creamed on toast. He called it SOS and apparently it was served way too often in the Army when he was in Vietnam.

[@claudiayates7621]

I used to eat them straight outta the jars; sorta like soft jerky...very salty.

[@kathy.7475]

Creamed chipped beef on toast was served by my mother in the 50’s and 60’s when I was growing up. It was a cheap meal and we were a big family.

[@kerstinoberlin4708]

My favs are corn mush love it and chipped beef lol we called it sos..love it along w potatoe pancakes I still make cabbage and noodles and bean soup

[@violetqueen450]

We also ate a lot of squirrel, rabbit, venison and fresh cut fish growing up. I loved squirrel spaghetti and garlic stuffed rabbit.

[@susanstrange3436]

I still make SOS on a shingle. Rember this dish ??

[@patrickdurham8393]

I use hamburger rather than dried beef since the latter is both too salty and expensive.

[@calvinthurston1441]

Im 41 and have eaten about half of these. Even had squirrel stew! With squirrel! Chipped beef is where its at too!

[@VictoriaLavender]

Haha! I just finished chipped beef for dinner!

[@mikelogan5629]

Creamed chipped beef is still my favorite breakfast and easily found in the northeast.

[@gamerjaqi7873]

I love bean soup and egg drop soup. I make my bean soup with ham scraps. The chipped beef on toast is also known as shit on a shingle. It’s pretty much any meat in a white gravy on toast

[@BLACKVIKNGS88]

Go to a polish restaurant, they make potato pancakes. 5:13

[@karenbishop3350]

Very creative voice over.

[@bettyir4302]

News flash! These haven't vanished.

[@KJ-xx6xr]

Egg drop soup is in just about every Chinese American restaurant... The mock apple pie recipe was on the Ritz boxes well into the 1980's, I remember asking my mom about that and she looked at me like I had lost my ever loving mind and informed me we had apples no need to waste the box of crackers, child me thought sounded fun and fancy...adult me still has not ever made it or had it. My mom would sometimes make lazy dinner, not that I ever ate it, of boiling macaroni in milk then adding in a can of halved stewed tomatoes...basically it turned your milk and macaroni pink with the tomato juice...I hate tomatoes...by boiling the macaroni in milk the starch from the macaroni thickens the milk, the tomato juice from the stewed tomatoes makes it soup like.

[@jamesjacobs4209]

Occasionally my Dad wold make Sh*t on a Shingle when I was growing up. He was a child of the depression. That and Beans and Franks was a regular in our family for a number of years. When I got married we would do franks and mac and cheese.

[@martybee6701]

There's an expensive reastaurant in UK that specializes in Squirrel pie. Very popular apparently

[@sandravalani359]

I absolutely lovVe these NoStalgiC Videos and I enjoy listeninG to the Narrator's SoothinG VoiCe!✌🙂🙏😇🌹🌞🌹☕🍵☕

[@judyjones5089]

No. The vinegar pie was not sour, but could be very sweet and spicy if you added the right ones like cinnamon and cloves.

[@colleenobrien6185]

Lots of dishes I'd still like to eat!

[@veronicaadair9004]

Apparently you have never been to the SE part of the USA. Most of these things are still eaten down here. Also, egg drop soup is in most Chinese American restaurants. One of my grandfathers - in the Depression all he had to eat was peaches from the yard of the boarding house he lived at. He never ate peaches again.

[@stacybender4414]

My mother loved Colby and grape jelly sandwichs.

[@ktkat1949]

cheddar and strawberry jam was the standard at my house.

[@justmejenny7986]

I eat cheddar cheese with apple slices or guava paste with cheddar on club crackers.

[@claudiayates7621]

My friends' family loved liverwurst & strawberry preserves on pumpernickel

[@stacybender4414]

@@claudiayates7621 liverwurst and thin sliced onions. I still eat those.😁 With homemade bread. 😋

[@elifint3735]

We had spaghetti with a bit of pork chop and soy sauce sometimes with peas.

[@claudiayates7621]

I still snack on rice (or ramen) with cubed ham (or spam), peas & mushrooms; spiced with soy sauce, ginger & pineapple juice /O.J. (if available).

[@pamelamarquez1173]

I still make some of these.

[@cbman4767]

What about Tomato Soup Cake? I love the stuff.

[@justmejenny7986]

I have still yet to try it. I love tomato soup and cake but never sounded appealing mixed together.

[@cbman4767]

@@justmejenny7986 It is a real good spice cake and you can ad Raisins or even walnuts to make it better.

[@patriotwolf2810]

I REMEMBER THOSE RECIPES

[@loner-xl7]

i have cookbooks from that era. they are in pdf format they tell the story of the time

[@Miss_Kisa94]

"cornmeal mush" is called grits in the south and it's still eaten 😅 although definitely not healthy. It's normally full of butter or cheese.

[@Saiga79]

We still make depression cake in our house 😅

[@markwilliams5606]

Cattle country here. We all still have Great food like this. These Cowboys will eat Anything Good. Adios 🇺🇸🐴🌄

[@oldfarmshow]

❤️👍

[@nirradical]

Uhh isn't Milk Toast just...French Toast?

[@pmsteamrailroading]

No. Milk toast is toast with warm sweetened milk, or a thin white sauce. The video here doesn’t match the narrative. That is often a problem with this channel.

[@dawnborchert772]

I e eaten a number of these and love rhem

[@Nofanboyz]

We still have to do this today, living with disabilities and no salary the past thirty years. Much of what is shown here, though, is sheer luxury and really inaccessible. Americans are just spoiled.

[@prw6058]

I just made a depression cake this week for a vegan friend!

[@janieheroux-chalifoux1470]

Milk toast is French toast

[@semigoth299]

Why not publish a cookbook about these and other recipes here on your channel

[@DeathByFashion1]

squirrel cake? I would become vegetarian

[@pennybechtold3524]

Beans still are a big food item eaten today.

[@Vladimir-hq1ne]

Hoover stew was not that you'd explained, alas.

[@joanng26]

I don’t believe olive oil was widely available in the U.S. during the depression. Lard and vegetable oil were more common.

[@claudiayates7621]

We always had a can to collect grease (usually Baco) on the stove util the mid 1980s

[@sternits]

Squirrel tastes like chicken. Good in gumbo.

[@jayendepersil6607]

No dandelions for me. Not if wanted to stay among the living. Very allergic.

[@phexyn3997]

There is a german word wich roughly translated means „roof bunny“ and was a cynical way to describe that there was something special about the stew. In 1929 and after the wars people even ate cats …

[@justmejenny7986]

Cubans have too. Rations were never enough. Then there's history of people disappeared (hopefully you follow me) in Russia and China. Haiti eats dirt cookies. Everyone does what they have to in order to survive.

[@JTRocks4Ever]

Potato pancakes are not eaten for breakfast

[@justmejenny7986]

There are some that are. Had them quite often growing up.

[@JTRocks4Ever]

@@justmejenny7986 I just know the Jewish recipe. They are part of a meal topped with applesauce.

[@janieheroux-chalifoux1470]

Isn't corn meal mush... grits?

[@kimmothy69]

Potato pancakes (latkes) are still on most Jewish families' tables at every holiday; I would know, I'm Jewish. Maybe a little more research on things that actually haven't faded away at all.

[@elizlikethequeen]

I'm eating S.O.S. as I watch this! If you don’t rinse your dried beef off before adding it to your gravy you will be sorry..

[@caygabie4100]

BTW interesting but Korean not American...tastyand creative nonetheless!

[@justmejenny7986]

What are some Korean dishes that have been eaten during hard times or war?

[@MrCrchandler]

Sorry, but squirrel stew and Brunswick stew are not the same.

[@yw2274]

Brunswick is made with rabbit, correct?

[@martybee6701]

Rabbit used to be commonplace in British butchers as cheap meat. Very rare to see it now. Our local butcher had a dozen or so whole rabbits displayed in his window with an advertising sign which read. "Water ship Down - you've read the book. You've seen the film. Now eat the cast." The Police told him to take the sign down.

[@MrCrchandler]

@@yw2274 Brunswick stew has occasionally included such game as rabbit, but traditionally it includes roughly equal amounts of beef, pork and chicken, cooked and then finely ground before the other ingredients are added.

[@craigoldsen1667]

@@yw2274the original was made from squirrels.👍

[@justmejenny7986]

That cartoon from the 70s or 80s traumatized me. We watched it in school and I was crying my eyes out.