17 Great Depression recipes people still cook today during hard times - Upworthy
Recipes associated with the Great Depression show how families stretched inexpensive ingredients into filling meals. In a collection of 17 dishes still made today, home cooks share soups, stews, sides and desserts passed down through their families. Hoover stew combines noodles, canned tomatoes, hot dogs or other available meat, and canned vegetables in one pot. Beef and noodles uses ground beef, creamed corn and canned chicken noodle soup, while tuna fish stew stretches canned fish with potatoes, celery, milk and hard-boiled eggs. Several recipes can be adjusted to whatever is on hand. The sides are similarly simple. Milk potatoes are fried with onion, then simmered in milk until tender. Baked beans cook with tomato, onion and molasses; ash cakes turn cornmeal and water or stock into slices fried in fat. The desserts make substitutions, too. Wacky cake leaves out milk, butter and eggs, while rice pudding uses rice, milk and a sweetener. Mock apple pie takes the idea further: it uses Ritz crackers in place of apples.
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