Great Depression Recipes That Are A Hit!!

[@JeanneDee-zz5th]

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!

[@amykat5]

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!

[@lindaleegan5638]

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.

[@bcaye]

It was, but there was no sausage in it. Poor people couldn't afford much meat-milk was even a stretch.

[@tracydimond3759]

Lower alabama here. I just made sausage gravy and biscuts for my husband and i for supper the other day.

[@amykat5]

@@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.

[@annabeltheduchessofdessert7700]

My grandmother used cracker crumbs in her meatloaf, along with eggs. No milk. It was delicious!

[@christinebarber8311]

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!

[@trudydavis6168]

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!

[@dennyj8650]

@@trudydavis6168 I use crushed cereal like cornflakes or cheerios.

[@trustinJesus_only-_]

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

[@RunninUpThatHillh]

Rice pudding you mean??

[@trustinJesus_only-_]

@@RunninUpThatHillh nope just cooked rice with cinnamon and sugar and milk

[@Amandahugginkizz]

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

[@depoquest7928]

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.

[@hazelbrungard1623]

Sounds like A& P Spanish Bar.

[@JaneDough23]

@@hazelbrungard1623 I loved the A & P Spanish bar

[@wardrobelion]

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.

[@stephaniemcelmurry7996]

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.

[@peacefulinspirations7312]

I shake my milk and flour together for white sauce. It does make a smooth sauce.

[@debbiecaraballo9055]

@@stephaniemcelmurry7996 lo

[@debbiecaraballo9055]

Sorry! That was just an accident!

[@HeronCoyote1234]

I make my scrambled eggs in a pot as well (watched Gordon Ramsay make his). Creamy and so yummy!

[@cathydee8401]

I remember my Mother giving us sweetened leftover rice as a dessert when I was a small child. Yes, it was good.

[@dar5108]

Same here.😊

[@rhondaherdman7338]

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.

[@mollysmith6055]

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.

[@kardiaheart]

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!

[@amandaforeman2626]

I miss Clara’s videos too :( she was such a gem !

[@janicekobetich1138]

Love, love, loved her giggle. She was a beautiful woman.

[@nadogrl]

Aren’t her recipes still here on KZbin? I recently bought her cookbook.

[@ericastout4552]

​@@nadogrl yes ma'am 😽

[@nadogrl]

@@ericastout4552 - I recognize you from Rhoda’s channel.❤️

[@homesweettrailer7565]

I'm imagining the sausage gravy and the creamed eggs getting together and having a happy toast party 😂

[@kristianeludtke9211]

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!

[@samanthazehr9965]

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!

[@shannaspicer5181]

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

[@vickithornley5056]

My mom called it frizzled beef. I loved it.

[@esskeller9676]

I like savory foods for breakfast. I make warm rice with a little butter and shredded cheese. Or cheesy grits. Yum.

[@hollyk1226]

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.

[@tracyhardwick2695]

We would have the ground beef gravy at dinner, delicious.

[@justmefolks1863]

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.

[@mollysmith6055]

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.

[@justmefolks1863]

@@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.

[@iowagranny2841]

Creamed eggs on toast is my love language! Had them often growing up and still a comfort food for me.

[@buckeyemom8448]

Sausage gravy over fried potatoes is delicious !

[@lamoon1525]

Enjoyed the video...I use these recipes often. FIfty years worth of often.

[@eydiegarcelon8889]

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!!!

[@sylviakstambaugh7743]

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.

[@joywilmott8495]

The meatloaf with the bread is a good way to use up the heals of the bread loaf ❤

[@milliesimmons7252]

I have eaten the rice with milk sugar and butter for 50 years, so good.

[@susanmoore7864]

Great recipes, thanks, your haircut is great!

[@YT4Me57]

My grandmother and mother made meatloaf like that. Sometimes they added chopped green pepper and mixed some ketchup in the meat mixture also. Delicious!

[@Tammy-cu3nk]

Wow, I’ve grown up eating all of that and fixing it at some point. 💛💛😄

[@lisasey3681]

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💜

[@mollysmith6055]

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.

[@lisasey3681]

Thank you very much🤗. 💞She was a wonderful mother and best friend. 💞

[@sued616]

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

[@lvlc5]

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.

[@babsy820]

How inspiring! Thanks for sharing your bravery and ambition to try these older recipes. It teaches us so much.

[@melissabibby7310]

My Grandmother was born 1918, she made most of those recipes, they were delicious. Thanks for sharing.👍❤️

[@Homeschoolmama2020]

I love when you do these Great Depression cooking videos! Making these biscuits and gravy tonight!

[@marysexton8482]

I can't wait to make her gravy !!!! Looks so delicious !!! Enjoy yours tonight !

[@Homeschoolmama2020]

@@marysexton8482 it was a hit at my house tonight! Everyone really like it! I even made some homemade biscuits to go with it!

[@wardrobelion]

Yum! My grandma used to make applesauce cake and sometimes raw apple cake.

[@ginaroberts2964]

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.

[@joanwalford1959]

Just love the depression recipes and they are so doable. Looks tasty too.

[@karenennis6109]

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

[@suziebuckingham9053]

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

[@mollysmith6055]

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.'

[@714Roostergirl]

My mom called it that too. She separated the yolks and sprinkled them on top....so pretty and delicious 😋

[@melanieroberts2221]

Mom too

[@Rebecca-n7n]

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.

[@lyndalisten254]

How many pounds of hamburger for the meatloaf ?

[@dewuknowofHyMn]

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 ! 💖😬😁

[@bkj2508]

Meatloaf tastes good with cream of mushroom soup too. In stead of ketchup. We always chopped up onion in it too.

[@jrprairie32]

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.

[@peggyb3397]

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!!

[@donnabanks5958]

My Mom always fixed rice, sugar with milk and we called that dessert!! Yum!! Still love it.

[@bobbiek2960]

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.

[@shesinherapron]

Yum!

[@edefyinggravity]

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. 😁

[@noahhursh1485]

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!

[@sandrawhitman2930]

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!

[@Mwilder05]

YUM!! Going to try this

[@bluemoon3699]

Us, kids, would have a stick of celery with peanut butter in it. Nice healthy snack.

[@jessicatonniges1698]

Great recipes!! We eat our saw mill gravey over hashbrowns, diced potatoes or mashed potatoes!

[@ispysaidmylittleeye3489]

Over almost everything! I grew up one this gravy!👍

[@shesinherapron]

Yum!!

[@tiffanycurtis5046]

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!

[@marysexton8482]

Way to go !!!!!

[@robertagillis448]

These recipes are some I raised my family on, so good.

[@tammysiltanen884]

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.

[@caroljulian6505]

My family was coal miner of Ky. We ate like great depression. Money was so tight.

[@sarap6862]

I love creamed eggs! I always add cheese to my white sauce before I put in the eggs. Delicious!!

[@shesinherapron]

Yum! I will have to try that

[@allorganicplanting]

She is the real deal. An excellent page. She shows you how toooo cook grate meals and save money doing it.

[@chasityfox693]

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.

[@clareweller8785]

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

[@sarahmoviereviewer4109]

what did she cook ?

[@michelebadey3883]

@@sarahmoviereviewer4109 depression era cooking recipes.

[@Treaclepuff]

Me too! We will have to bring all that back, won't we?

[@OrdinaryOwens]

Loving the Depression Era recipe videos!

[@DRFALLIS]

My parents grew up during the depression and all of these recipes were part of my childhood makes me hungry and reminence

[@maryjanespangler7488]

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.

[@jamiet9132]

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

[@dstock5890]

We had this too! Also called SOS. We liked it and I’ll have to get some. I believe Stouffers has a frozen version!

[@CW-pp7zc]

My mom always made the rice “soup”. Loved it.

[@lorita3488]

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. .

[@AnnaJones-r7i]

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

[@karleedu]

My mom made this for us. We loved it!

[@lindseymiller8165]

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.

[@bettytijerina9769]

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.

[@HummerGirl88]

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.

[@sherriluce4252]

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.

[@brittanylynne7794]

Long time follower and love your videos and your hair! You and your family bring so much joy. God bless

[@shesinherapron]

Thank you!

[@pattigreenland9001]

Kimmy this is how we make our Christmas fruit cake, except we replace raisins with cut up gum drops it’s fabulous and easy 😋

[@franksmom3192]

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

[@lorita3488]

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

[@rain0450]

Love these videos! We are in difficult economic times!

[@EileenJOfficial]

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]

My father in law would call it cornmeal mush, and we enjoyed it together, as no one else liked it.

[@EileenJOfficial]

@@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.

[@wardrobelion]

I learned from Joy Of Baking that if you coat your raisins, blueberries, etc. it keeps them from ending up on the bottom.

[@DianaCollander]

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.

[@lisamr40]

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.

[@carmarasmussen8118]

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!

[@marysexton8482]

I'm getting Hungary watching you cook !!!!! Love your channel.... From N.C

[@ruthtingle7219]

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

[@charlottedenman7176]

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]

Ooh I’ll try that one. Thanks! What else did you have?

[@charlottedenman7176]

@@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 😋

[@mrseliephant]

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.

[@teridavis5367]

@@charlottedenman7176 I would love your recipe for Cornmeal Dumplings! They sound amazing! Cooking things from our childhood really brings back great memories! Thank you!!!

[@denisebiendarra5996]

My parents lived through the Depression too-they were teenagers. Some of my Mom’s recipes might’ve have been from that era.

[@reneemoreno8030]

Many of these ideas have been in my repertoire since childhood. Farm to table and everything from scratch.

[@pamfrey6785]

I’m going to to try this meatloaf.

[@cheyannemanderson]

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. 😋

[@deidrecruickshank7975]

In my family we've been doing warm rice with milk and sugar since I was a kid, I'm 60 now!

[@marysexton8482]

I started watching Claire. ..and I come across you and love your recipes ! Thank you for sharing !!!!!

[@Shabosoutdoors]

Sawmill gravy is made with water not milk an normally served over meat of some sort but still a great vid thanks for sharing 😀

[@kimjohnson9118]

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.

[@bevintx5440]

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. :-)

[@kathybrunson2390]

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!

[@mollysmith6055]

We did that in Home Ec...the yolk was the all-important garnish.

[@pattopping5812]

Eggs goldenrod

[@shelbylynnwilliams8520]

Great video Kimmy! Thanks so much.

[@patricianolin3164]

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

[@juliabartlam2083]

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!

[@billgrandone3552]

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.

[@nolacockerham4823]

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!

[@judyhaase809]

I agree the texture is very different but both delicious

[@diversekakes]

How interesting!

[@Roganthesigma]

We grew up calling this sausage gravy

[@donnastratton8397]

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.

[@vickidolph1581]

I agree….this was just your basic sausage gravy and biscuits.

[@tanyachard3900]

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.

[@wardrobelion]

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.

[@user-ei8rb7sj6c]

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!

[@debraoverstreet798]

My parents made the sawmill gravy with ground beef. We ate it over mashed potatoes or toast

[@marcellareese8853]

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.

[@TracieSmithpomeranian]

I have Mrs. Clara's book. I grew up eating rice with milk the way you showed.

[@margarettickle9659]

Thank you for showing some different and easy Depression cooking.

[@annaalcantar3824]

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!

[@juliewebber2749]

They look great. Thank you.