Posted on 11/18/2011 7:47:54 PM PST by blam
This Is What People Ate When They Had No Money During The Depression
Vivian Giang
Nov. 18, 2011, 12:25 PM
Image: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection
If you've ever visited anyone's house for dinner and a big, sloppy "secret family recipe" dish is flopped down in front of you, chances are high that the messy goodness could have originated from the Depression era.
Families were taught to creatively stretch out their food budgets and toast, potatoes and flour seem to be the popular, inexpensive ingredients. Expensive meat was typically eaten only once a week.
Some foods were invented during the Depression, such as spam, Ritz crackers, Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Kraft macaroni and cheese, according to livinghistoryfarm.org.
We've compiled some simple, easy recipes from 90-something Clara who shares her childhood dining memories during hard times. They may help you save money during our own Recession.
Click here to see what people ate>
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My father helped build the car road that went by our farm, they did it with horse and mule and pick and shovel. The little trading posts back then were service by horse and wagon. You traded your eggs and chickens for sugar and coffee, and your ground your floor and mill down at the local water wheel mill. You raised hogs for lard and grease. But you could buy lard at the little country store are trade chickens and eggs for it. People made maple syrup and maple sugar and molasses.
cool. Can’t make a lot of syrup in Texas. heh.
That would probably work. I also think some type of social order would return, at least locally, very quickly.
Heh...the deer practically walk up to your front door nowadays. I dang near had a deer wreck in the driveway fercryinoutloud!
lol
Oh yeah...turnips and collards out the kazooo. Turnip juice is called 'Pot Liquor' and is excellent when eaten with corn bread and a glass of sweet milk. In my youth, that was dinner many nights.
“There are a lot of “weed” plants that are edible “
I’m thinking that if someone could come up with a way to prepare kudzu, we in Tennessee would be able to eat forever. (Vile plant.)
If you don't have family/people pre-planned to go to in the country, don't come. We don't want you out here... You stay where-ever you are now and make-do with whatever supplies you were smart enough to 'hoard.'
I'm a real nice person but I haven't made any plans what-so-ever to feed or shelter you and I will not allow you to encroach on me or mine.
Prepare now. If you don't...when TSHTF, there'll be little sympathy.
Goats can fully digest kudzu, without reseeding the plant.
People can eat goats.
Armadillos are often used in the study of leprosy, since they, along with mangabey monkeys, rabbits and mice (on their footpads), are among the few known non-human animal species that can contract the disease systemically.
They are particularly susceptible due to their unusually low body temperature, which is hospitable to the leprosy bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae. (The leprosy bacterium is difficult to culture and armadillos have a body temperature of 34 °C (93 °F), similar to human skin.)
Humans can acquire a leprosy infection from armadillos by handling them or consuming armadillo meat. Armadillos are a presumed vector and natural reservoir for the disease in Texas and Louisiana. Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th century, leprosy was unknown in the New World. Given that armadillos are native to the New World, at some point they acquired the disease from humans.
The Armadillo is also a natural reservoir for Chagas disease.[11
Hey I have done that for real. Northern Minn.
Vodka can be made from kudzu
I grew up calling the refrigerator an "ice box". Got it from my Grandparents. To this day, I'll still call it an "ice box". I had to explain to my 20 year old admin what an ice box was, and what the correlation meant. :-)
Grandpa taught us SOS, although we'd put it over rice instead of bread. Did that a lot with liver nips in broth, as well.
Of course, it’ll really stink to be those first few guys, because they’ll likely be dead and incinerated, but eventually predation by the SWAT teams will stop.
In the thumb of michigan on 660 radio they still have a swap shop program. I get Rush out of Port Huron from 2 to 5. Swap shop is on just before that...
Tony Joe White www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRF24LY5pvw
When I was a kid the local radio station in RI would play this all the time. Loved it!
When the government bought cattle from ranchers to help them out- like a stimulus... (the government shot the cattle and let them rot under guard) with people starving in the cities) ranchers that had any rough country hid out a few young cows and bulls so they could start over. My dad said people blamed the banks and the government for how bad things were so people did not think badly of folks that did such things. My grandad restarted his ranch with 17 cows and a bull.
We still have cans of bent nails and fence staples just in case. My dad never threw one away if he thought there was a chance he would need it.
Toasted tomato sandwich’s are delicious...but only fresh grown tomato’s not the kind you get in the stores...They have no taste. Add a little dash of salt and my adult kids still love them..I have never lived in a trailer, but son # 3 did when he first moved out at the age of 19. Not everyone living in a trailer is trash...
We still call it that in this family too.
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