Mealtime is an often-unappreciated time that we take for granted. Today, food is plentiful and readily available on a whim.
But can you imagine eating the same thing every day?
Some people had to do just that during the Great Depression – and even when they weren’t chowing down on the same kind of cuisine, they were eating some pretty odd fare.
Here are some strange meals people ate during this difficult period in American history.
15 Strange Meals People Ate During The Great Depression
Give these odd recipes from the Great Depression a try if you’re attempting to pinch pennies – or are feeling a bit adventurous!
Bologna Casserole
You might not mind eating a bologna sandwich every now and then – but bologna casserole? That’s a little odd!
Bologna casserole was made out of things like bacon, onions, peppers, canned pork and beans, inexpensive cheese, and naturally, bologna.
It’s hearty – to say the least.
Hot Water Pie
As the name implies, hot water pie is connected by combining ingredients like flour, sugar, and butter for a crust then using boiling water, sugar, butter, and eggs for a filling.
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Great Depression Egg Drop Soup
You might recognize this name, but this unique dish is not at all like the Chinese soup you know and love.
Instead, it consists of onions and browned potatoes, scrambled eggs, and a water broth that has been heavily salted.
Garbage Plate
The garbage plate is still often served at diners in the western New York region.
It’s a combination of home fries, baked beans, macaroni salad, ground beef, and sometimes sausage (or any variation of those ingredients). This mixture is then topped with chili, onions, hot sauce, mustard, or ketchup.
A peculiar combination of flavors, for sure – but also loaded with nutrients and calories.
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Great Depression Cooked Bread
It’s as simple as it sounds. Made out of hard bread that had gone past its prime and was no longer fresh, cooked bread just involves cutting bits of bread into slices, soaking it in some oil or butter, and frying it in a pan. You could pour some water over the slices if it needed more hydrating, too. You could then mash it up.
Cabbage and Dumplings
Cabbage and dumplings is a dish that’s pretty much self-explanatory.
Despite being strange, it’s not the worst tasting dish on this list. It’s just fried onions and cabbage combined with dumplings crafted out of flour and egg.
Frozen Fruit Salad
Frozen fruit salad was a popular meal around the holidays, in particular.
This dish can be adjusted in a variety of ways, but most versions include canned fruit, whipped cream, flour, eggs, and mix-ins such as nuts or marshmallows.
The whole dish is frozen, then served like ice cream.
Great Depression Meatless Meatloaf
It seems counterintuitive that meatloaf would be served without any meat – but back in the Depression, meat could be hard to come by.
Meatless meatloaf could be made out of anything – from liver to raisins, peanuts and more, just about anything you had hanging out in the refrigerator or pantry could be thrown into this dish.
Amish Cold Milk Soup
Cold milk soup is just like cereal – without the cereal.
Served cold on a hot day, this dish could actually be quite refreshing. It’s just bananas, milk, and sugar.
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Boiled Carrots and Spaghetti with White Sauce
Although you might be quite attached to your favorite spaghetti and meatballs recipe, back in the Great Depression, you would have enjoyed a much blander variation of this.
Spaghetti would be boiled for a long time – about 25 minutes – to make it super mushy.
Add to that some boiled carrots and a white sauce made out of salt, flour, milk, and margarine, and a nutritious dinner is served – albeit a bland, tasteless one!
Peanut Butter and Mayo Sandwiches
Just about every household would have pantry staples like peanut butter and mayo hanging around.
Because of that, the peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich became a fixture, providing just enough protein and sustenance to people in a pinch.
Ketchup Sandwiches
Another popular Depression-era meal was the infamous ketchup sandwich.
It wouldn’t have had a ton of nutrients or calories but would help families fill a plate in a pinch.
Great Depression Milkorno
Scientists at Cornell University are responsible for the culinary marvel that is milkorno. This inexpensive food was meant to feed struggling families in the Depression-era.
A blend of cornmeal and dehydrated milk powder, it could be eaten by itself like oatmeal or mixed into recipes. Yum.
Related: How To Dehydrate Milk For Long Term Storage
Corned Beef Luncheon Salad
Gelatin, in the 1930s, was a new and cutting-edge food. It was added to just about everything.
One popular dish was corned beef luncheon salad, which contained canned corned beef, canned peas, cabbage, lemon juice, vinegar, and of course, plain gelatin. It was popular and inexpensive to make.
Jell-O Ice Cream
Last but not least is Jell-O ice cream.
Dessert lovers, pay attention – this is an odd Depression-era meal you’ll want to try at your next dinner party.
In fact, this recipe doesn’t sound nearly as repulsive as corned beef luncheon salad – but it’s unusual, to say the least.
This recipe includes whipped heavy cream, vanilla extract, milk, sugar, and raspberry Jell-O. A no-churn, inexpensive take on ice cream, it would have been most popular around the holidays, especially for those who were used to living on the bare minimum and being forced to skip dessert!
Get Adventurous with These Odd Great Depression Meals
In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans found creative ways to stretch their food dollars and provide nourishment for their families.
They ate a variety of unusual dishes that made use of the ingredients they had on hand (like food that they foraged or grew in their gardens).
Whether you’re looking for some fun and frugal new recipes or you just want to explore a unique period in America’s history, consider whipping up a few of these odd Great Depression-era meals today!
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Some pretty darn good reasons to have a good garden, a stout chicken house and a share in a cow.
From my Grandmothers stories and diary the meals they ate were from their own production.
Peanut butter and mayo was an exotic taste.
Much like Thai food .
Taste sensations I had never had before.
mmm hell ‘ya Thai beef kabobs with peanut butter sauce
@Chip Not depression related just an interesting little aside. In Europe they mostly put mayo on their French fries instead of ketchup. BTW at the moment we’re having a global potato shortage.
Really havent seen a potato shortage here.
Armin, I really like what is about a 60-40 mix of ketchup and mayo that a tiny place in the area I grew up in during the 60’s & 70’s would use for burgers and serve with their fries, and since then had often been advertised as some sort of “secret sauce” by other food vendors. I also use a BBQ sauce & mayo mix for burgers and chicken strips, and I mix mustard, mayo, and honey as another home-made dipping sauce. You can also add spices and/or minced or powdered onion or garlic depending on what you like, experimenting a little can get a lot of variety out of a few basic ingredients.
Well this is something Groups could make for a community dinner . Thank you for posting something like this
WOW!
Shepards pie is my favorite they showed picture but wasn’t in the article.
I hope it won’t come to the point where we use any of these recipes, but I am downloading this webpage just in case.,
Bread pudding, tapioca pudding made from scratch, mac&cheese made from scratch, rice pudding with raisins made from scratch, jello whipped up in the mixer fruit cocktail mixed in and frozen, junket pudding (name obviously not picked by Mad Ave,) junket was made by dissolving rennet tablets in milk and then chilling in the fridge. Rennet is something made from the lining of cow’s stomachs. It’s actually better tasting than it sounds I haven’t looked for it in a long time but used to make it for my wife when she was pregnant and couldn’t eat much.
sounds like menudo. so i thought, i was wrong looked it up.
Varieties
There are two main varieties of natural rennet: those derived from plant or animal. The three animals with the rennin enzyme are lambs, goats, and calves.
The plants that contain this special enzyme are artichokes, nettles, and cardoon thistle. Some cheesemakers also use Mucur miehei, a type of mold that offers a similar reaction (but leaves no mold in the actual end product).
There’s also a synthesized rennet produced through fermentation, which creates chymosin, or rennin. Fermentation-produced chymosin can be made through manipulating the genes of a young ruminant and/or synthesizing its genes. This method is used commonly in contemporary cheesemaking because it is cost-effective and reliable.
Rennet Uses
The real use of rennet is to separate the solid milk particles from the water in the milk. This allows the curds of the cheese to form. The enzymes are activated only when temperatures reach 85 to 105 F. The rennet will continue to help coagulate the milk until the liquid hits 140 F. This is important in cheesemaking because different types of cheeses have different levels of firmness, thanks to the role of rennet. For a soft brie, it’s best to let the rennet make loose curds; whereas a hard Romano will benefit from firmer curds. (Cheeses such as ricotta, however, are the exception and don’t typically contain rennet.)
Rennet “pudding” was something mom made for us occasionally as kids, I think because SHE liked it. Just whole fresh milk, sugar, vanilla and rennet. It was good with fresh strawberries. One of my favorite home-made ice cream recipes calls for rennet – very smooth and creamy
This list never ceases to amaze me. I always enjoyed Junket as a desert and knew that rennet, the main ingredient in jJunket was rennet, but never was motivated to look up rennet mainly I suppose because by the time the internet came along I had abandoned Junket in my daily diet and rennet was not a substance I used in daily life.
Very interesting post, FVP. Thanks for taking the time.
Still love junket. Mum put grated nutmeg on top, yummm.
LCC, the whipped Jell-O sounds like something I grew up with called “chiffon”, and is probably similar to or the same thing as the “Jell-O ice” cream” described in the article. It seems easy to make and you can probably use different fruits and flavorings for variety, maybe some peaches or mango’s?
When us kids turned our noses up on anything my mother put on the dinner table, my father always said “If you’re really hungry you’ll eat anything”! May have been stern, but we learned to clean our plates, be thankful for anything put before us on the table, and never waste anything. Food is a precious gift from God! Taking that advice still to heart this day, I told my son when he got married, “What ever she cooks, eat it and make sure you always thank her and make sure you tell her that’s its delicious too!’ Worst advice he said I ever gave him!
i’ll eat but i’ll let you know if it tastes bad. early on marriage wife couldn’t cook. i ate it and when asked if i liked it, i would say no, but i’ll keep eating till you get better at it. she sure did learn from from neighbors, my mom, her mom, her grandmother and friends. yeah she can cook. my favorite was the arabic dishes she learned from neighbors
A handful of things here are still our family favorites – sugar pie, cabbage and dumplings, frozen fruit desserts and various thrown together casseroles, but many of these would still require a big garden, chickens and a cow. Depression era folks were undoubtedly better-prepared than many today – even with rationing and little money.
The list is still educational in that it shows the importance of stocking up on things like sugar, salt, pepper, spices, flavoring concentrates like bullion/beef & chicken base and herbs/herb seeds (and even jello!). Bean, grain, pasta and canned-goods meals don’t have to be bland and unappealing, and even rationed, small meals that are really tasty will go a long way in keeping anxiety levels lower, and hopeful feelings up.
@flyovercindy Nothing wrong with cabbage and dumplings. Add a little meat and you have a staple meal for eastern European families. In downtown Toronto there’s actually a section in the southeastern part of the city that’s called Cabbagetown. That’s what those people grew as THEIR victory garden after the 2nd WW because there was nothing much else. Cabbages grow quite well even in a colder climate.
Cabbage and Dumplings… My husband is a Slovak. We eat it once a week. It is called halushky (not sure if the spelling is correct). Sometimes we use egg noodles instead of dumplings. When he is really getting fancy and adds chicken and paprika, you cannot keep those Slovaks away. Janko’s (my husband) halushky chicken is the most requested meal at our church pot lucks. Who knew?
Mom would be upset of i didn’t mention Wiener Water Soup. I always thought it was just the funny answer when I asked what was for supper. Turned out it was pretty common in the lean years when she was a kid. Now you can actually find recipes for WWS on-line.
@JPup “wiener water” is a bit of a misnomer. Although it does generate some interesting comments at the dinner table. 😉 It’s just boiled hotdogs with some veggies and spices added. Much more economical than buying an actual piece of real meat. Surprising what humans can survive on when they have to. In the middle of the potato famine in Ireland people made what was called stone soup. Or so they say. More likely the Irish sense of humour I think. Probably a folk tale illustrating the value of sharing more than anything else. This is how the story goes.
Some travelers come to a village, carrying nothing more than an empty cooking pot. Upon their arrival, the villagers are unwilling to share any of their food stores with the very hungry travelers. Then the travelers go to a stream and fill the pot with water, drop a large stone in it, and place it over a fire. One of the villagers becomes curious and asks what they are doing. The travelers answer that they are making “stone soup”, which tastes wonderful and which they would be delighted to share with the villager, although it still needs a little bit of garnish, which they are missing, to improve the flavour.
The villager, who anticipates enjoying a share of the soup, does not mind parting with a few carrots, so these are added to the soup. Another villager walks by, inquiring about the pot, and the travelers again mention their stone soup which has not yet reached its full potential. More and more villagers walk by, each adding another ingredient, like potatoes, onions, cabbages, peas, celery, tomatoes, sweetcorn, meat (like chicken, pork and beef), milk, butter, salt and pepper. Finally, the stone (being inedible) is removed from the pot, and a delicious and nourishing pot of soup is enjoyed by travelers and villagers alike. Although the travelers have thus tricked the villagers into sharing their food with them, they have successfully transformed it into a tasty meal which they share with the donors.
Still don’t understand why the Irish didn’t put in alternate crops after the widespread failure of their potato crop like barley. Barley will grow almost anywhere. And you use barley to make beer. A win win situation for the Irish.
If things go very badly in ’22 we may have to try and stretch our food supplies by cooking a lot of soups. Wouldn’t be the worst thing. We’d be a lot healthier.
From what I was told there was a “soup” which started with boiling hot dogs and using that water, the wieners of course and tossing in anything else that might be available. It was just another way to stretch available chow. I looked online and found that the world has complicated the soup apparently trying to make it a legitimate dish.
Ahh, Armin, that is because you are Canadian which is part of the British confederation. Hard to call it an empire today.
Property in Ireland was in the hands of the English ruling class. Potatoes, mustard greens and the occasional egg with the hen being eaten upon finally expiring after a long hard life.
Ireland was a major exporter of foodstuffs all during the potato blight. The peasants who worked the land of the estate holders went home at sunset to a soup of mustard greens and a single egg if the hen laid that day. During the day he might have labored scything wheat, harvesting hops, barley, digging up cabbage, slaughtering cattle and swine and shearing and slaughtering sheep to see it loaded on wagons to be taken to port for exportation while his children were rapidly succumbing either to starvation itself or some vitamin deficiency that was proving fatal such as scurvy or beri beri.
To fully understand the Irish famine and the British government that encouraged the famine in order to solve ”The Irish Problem” which was too many Irish peasants on the land the solution was the famine and the encouragement of mass exportation and deportation of criminals. Exportation to the US and deportation to Australia and New Zealand.. You need to read “Paddy’s Lament, Ireland 1846-1847” by Thomas Gallagher. It will cure your wonder and may instill a hatred of England. Hitler took lessons from the Brits of the 19th Century, including concentration camps in the Boer War.
You can get the paperback edition from Amazon for $15.00 was $18.00
You must read it to fully understand the famine and the intense hatred it generated.
My maternal grandmother was Irish born but her family actually owned the land they worked. She came to this country on the Carpathian, the ship that was first to the Titanic, although she was on a different voyage. She came steerage and thus had to have a sponsor who guaranteed that she wouldnt go on the dole for five years. I had to guarantee the same thing when my wife emigrated to the US many decades after my grandmother. A cousin of my grandmother guaranteed her stay and so she was released from Ellis Island.
my father was born in Mexico he told me the stone soup story here in the US when i was 5 yrs old but a bit different. some indigenous people passing through stopped at a rich ranch. they asked if they could stay the night at the barn but rancher said no. humbly apologizing they said they would camp by the creek and make stone soup. rancher laughed and mocked them but as he watched them his curiosity got the better of him and asked how was the soup going. they answered it was not ready, rancher asked why, “the soup if fine but would be better with” long story short as rancher kept inquiring he’d was duped for ingredients LOL truly wonder where the stone soup originated
Armin: What I was told was you cannot hide a crop of the wheat. Meaning, if the Black and Tan troops came to investigate someone for being in the Irish resistance, potatoes can be hidden in the ground and not trampled of burned. North Plaztlander Germans fared little better, but Alpen folk grew new varieties of potatoes from seed. As I understand, they planted seed because they needed the food. Potatoes do best in hügelkultur. niio
Most of the Irish were tenants under an English landlord, grew what they were told to grow, not what they wanted. Monocultures are always more subject to diseases. You also require seed to change crops and there was none spared for local inhabitants. The English don’t have a good history with their conquered states. We can all learn from that…
@LCC Thanks for taking the time to put that into perspective for me, Chuck. 🙂 The Irish famine is one of the things that I don’t know much about. When I went to high school, more than half a century ago, we were taught the Roman history of Britain. Which I thought was quite strange at the time but what were we to do. They were the teachers, We were the students.
After you telling me a bit about the Irish situation it’s small wonder there’s so much enmity between the Irish and the British. The British can never be accused of being overly compassionate. In fact they’re quite the *ricks as history shows.
Although I do have a “soft” spot for beautiful English women. Love the accent. What attracts me even more is a beautiful Scottish woman. There’s just something so alluring about the Scottish brogue. And don’t get me started on red hair. She could do a highland fling with me any day. LOL!
I’m pretty sure there’s not much love lost between Britain and India. There are stories about the East India Company which aren’t particularly complimentary.
So what you seem to be saying is that the Irish peasants were being worked to death just to see the product of their labours being exported. And them ending up with the leftover scraps for all their hard labour. I can see this leading up to the formation of the IRA. You can only push people so much before they have nothing more left to lose and then desperation takes over. Our elite overlords very well know this and they have to be very careful how they proceed. There are a huge number of guns in private hands in America and Americans would rather die than give up their guns. Now I see that as a good thing and it might be the only thing staying the hands of the ruling elite.
Which raises another question for me. Whether the potato blight was an event deliberately engineered by the British or just a natural event that the Brits exploited to their advantage. What most of us know about Ireland can be summed up by the phrase the “emerald” isle. Ireland was never on my radar. I’m pretty sure none of my relatives have any Irish blood as I come from mainland Europe. No red hair as far as I know. And most of my relatives are from eastern Europe. My maternal grandmother was born just outside of Warsaw. I have a sneaking suspicion that there’s more than just a little Jewish in me there somewhere.
Something my maternal grandfather never talked about. Whenever any of his kids asked him about the family history he clammed up. If there is any Jewish in my lineage, which I suspect there is, it would have been very dangerous for my grandfather to talk about it in the Nazi Germany of the time. It would have put the whole family in grave danger.
One of the main reason I think there’s a Jewish connection is because my grandfather grew up in Zhytomyr in north western Ukraine. And Zhytomyr was and maybe still is one of the main Jewish cultural and educational centres of Ukraine. In his formative years Ukraine was split between Poland and Russia. My grandfather could speak Russian and German and my grandmother could speak Polish, Russian and German.
And then we ended up in Canada. No use wishing to be somewhere else. We’re all where we’re supposed to be. If nothing else ’22 will certainly be challenging and interesting. Everyone on this page is prepared for the future so none of us has anything to fear from the coming events. Unless they throw another global war at us and then all bets are off. But for now let’s all be optimistic and positive and never lose hope.
Wishing you and yours all the best for ’22, Chuck. Us old bastards are pretty tough. We’ll make it through no matter what. Take care. Chuck. Stay safe.
…Whether the potato blight was an event deliberately engineered by the British or just a natural event that the Brits exploited to their advantage….
Armin, the potato blight was a disaster waiting to happen. Potatoes then belonged to several selected clones, all susceptible to the blight. In their native habitat of South America the variety of potatoes is staggering and many were collected from the wild and used to breed resistant varieties every since. There is an excellent article/book produced on breeding resistance to disease in potatoes which can be applied to many crops. We just need to get away from monocultures/single clones in our food production. Bananas have had the same problems in more recent times. We can all do our bit by saving seed locally and sharing it with family and friends. It may not be resistant to imported disease but should be to local problem diseases
My family came to the USA late in the 1800s. One of the Irish land owner sons decided he didn’t like the way the family was treating their people and gathered a few dozen from each family and moved to Colby Kansas. He helped them to gain homesteads and they taught him farming. Pretty good deal if you ask me. My parents were the first generation to leave Colby, which is a good thing, only cousins would have been left to marry.
He recognized that his duty was to care for the administrative needs of the people, who did the living and dying in the world. I’m really lucky to have such a wonderful family history.
@Ginny in western Australia Thank you for that, Ginny. I always enjoy learning something new from the people on this page. Collectively you guys know so much. No one person can know everything. Thank you for sharing. 🙂
Asked my mom if she ever ate any of these things. She’s 99 yo and lived through the depression. She said no. She was lucky her father had a secure job a U.S. Steel so they never had to eat these innovative dishes. And my grandmother knew how to stretch what they got.
My grandmother and parents were adult during the depression. Hard times as they described it. Mom and grandma foraged. Dad and his dad both worked all they could while his step mom gardened. He was in Ohio she was in Florida. They met during WWII and married after the war.
Having lived through that time they made sure i knew some things in our local areas as we moved, so I could always always forage something to eat.
Simple things like egg noodles, sauces and gravy, biscuits and yeast breads were staples in our diet to round out meals from the garden. We made and at times ate gluten from a thick paste of wheat flour and water. Knead it till elastic like kneading bread dough. Then knead it in clear water to wash out the starch. Slice and cook till tender in seasoned broth. It can then be diced in stews or slices fried like meat. If you’re not gluten intolerant it’s high protein and as tasty as the cooking broth its prepared in.
Save the starch water for thickening cooked gravy or soups.
After the judge threw out the case against Pappy and my great-uncles, he lost his job at the mines. They had 2 acres down in the valley and he built a shack there, and dug a well. The land was plowed and sown to corn and turnips. Mom said they are mush and turnips 3 meals a day for months. Corn fodder was taken by a great-uncle to feed a heifer he and Pappy had bought. When she freshened, they had milk and cream. Not long after that, Pappy got a job as foreman in Japan Jeddo, because whites refused the job. Japanese miners learned to enjoy American foods, and taught Nana a lot of ways to cook their style. While they liked Pappy’s sour mash well enough, corn vinegar, and corn beer, they preferred rice and sweet potato potables 🙂 niio
ClergyLady,
So glad to see ya back on line.
Peace
MadFab
MadFab I wish we had Old Homesteaders insights about the current Supply Chain situation. I understand that the current restocking is USING warehouse reserves intended for the April and May resupply.
Folks food availability and prices are not going to get better until we have a good harvest season We for some idiot idea are shipping mostly to China our food.
Trusted friends and gardens will get your family through the SOCK PUPPETS reign.
Get busy.
Clergylady… my family called it goop n gravy, Sometimes I crave it. The memories. Thanks for that. Brought a tear to my eye.
My husband still like salt pork gravy, or milk gravy served on potatoes or toast.
@Laurie Burt Hi, Laurie. Obviously each to their own but milk gravy doesn’t sound that appetizing to me. The only gravy I know is made from thickening the drippings from a Turkey or Chicken or Beef Roast or alternatively using the sweetbreads to make a more interesting gravy. Not a big fan of milk to begin with. Makes me a little queasy. Although I can eat cheese until the cows come home. Go figure. Take care and stay safe.
Everything but peanut butter/mayo and boiled carrots w/ spaghetti. Candied carrots, yeah, over sour cream noodles. Everything else is still popular in a lot of places.
Imitation ice cream:
1 tub Imation whipped cream
fruit cut to small pieces, or candy like pecan pralines.
mix and refreeze.
happy eating! niio
Like the idea of the sour cream noodles, red. Although right now really don’t need the extra calories. Am slowly becoming the good year blimp. Getting to the point where I have to force myself to exercise and my body keeps complaining.
Armin: You can use fat free yogurt. I understand the weight issue. I had a dizzy spell and dropped, but caught myself on one hand. Problem, tore the rotator cuff. Right now a lot of projects are waiting me. But, fat, animal fat, is energy. Look up keto and carnivore diets. Carbs make fat on us. Carbs cause a sugar rush; that causes a rise in insulin in the body which ups estrogen, also leading to fat. No carbs and the arthritis is better even during lows in the weather. More energy, and the allergies are a lot less. niio
I’m only 65, lol! But I grew up on a lot of these “depression foods”. I loved many of the, but most important, these people weren’t food scientists but still put a meal on the table that brought the nutrition we look for even today!
Pease porridge hot
Pease porridge cold
Pease porridge in the pot
Nine days old.
The most economical and efficient way of eating, is to eat the same thing day after day. So very boring but efficient.
I recently read a letter written by someone who had gotten a charity food box of some unknown foods back in the early 1940’s. They didn’t have enough money for lighting in the evening so they ate in the dark. One of the foods they ate in the dark was unrecognizable until morning light. The food box had dates but they were covered with sand. They couldn’t figure out what the sand covered dates were in the dark but they were hungry enough that they went ahead and ate them.
@sagebrushlin Hi, Lin. Glad to see you made it through the holiday season relatively unscathed. 😉 Silly me for the longest time I thought it was PEAS porridge cold. Something to do with snap peas. In a way it is but they typically use split yellow peas in the recipe. I have both dried split yellow and split green on hand. The “pease” must have been the middle ages spelling for our modern day peas. Not a sweet pudding or porridge but savoury with some meat added. Sounds like a very hardy meal. If you’re hungry enough I’m sure it would be quite delicious even cold. We may have to get used to doing things quite differently in ’22. There’s unrest all over the world. I’m waiting for the fuse to ignite and that’ll be MY signal to stop going to the stores. Wish you all the best in the new year. Stay healthy. Stay safe. 🙂
Armin,
I grew up in a family that had spent time escaping from the soviets, ending up in this country with little more than one little suitcase for a family of seven. Food was very simple in the early years and my mother could make a meal out of almost anything. She used to make a soup with yellow split peas, flavored with a bit of salt pork. She also baked all types of bread, from the sweet type, the daily wheat bread to the black sourdough rye bread. She was very adaptable to whatever was available. That seems to be the direction we are going. Whatever comes our way, we will need to figure out how to make it work.
I am glad that your ailment was short lived. May you continue in strength this coming year.
Sagebrush Lin you ever hear of Hunters Stew? It was a rather large pot that started with potatoes, other root vegetables and so on. They kept it at a low simmer. Added was whatever the hunters got that day, raise the fire to a boil and then simmer again.
Each evening someone was selected to add more water, potatoes and such and bank the fire to simmer with a lid on. Was often Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for the Hunters Camp.
Flavor continued to evolve until the camp decided to start a new pot. If the Pot ran dry and burned the person whose turn it was to add water and bank the fire got to SCRUB that Pot.
A stewpot kept at simmer and kept from burning was the pre-electricity pre-Refrigeration method of keeping food safe and available.
At my annual Deer camp, we always have one going.
My Transplanted German Grandmother would keep one going during the farmhand season so her boys could eat whenever they had a moment during harvest.
Something you might use if you’re running a 24 hour a day security-work parties’ situation.
Michael,
The best stews are the ones kept going for hours. I have never been in a hunter’s camp though I surely have enjoyed what others have brought back to town. I regularly make a beef stew that always tastes better as time goes on.
I really wonder what the future holds for the luxuries such as having non-working pets. I have pampered mine with even home cooked pet meals plus various treats. In fact, my Home Depot cat has learned that I will give her a special treat if she brings a dead mouse to the back patio. Today, she brought it inside through the cat door – not good. There is a lot of construction in my area so the mice are looking for a quieter spot. Maybe, she will have to begin eating the mice more often.
Common stew pot, something kept on the edge of the fire or back of the stove might have ham added one day, roast beef the next, roasted pork, add some cabbage to it, carrots, dry peas or fresh. never a lot of any one thing and never, ever forget egg noodles! this was a stew made for busy days, planting, preserving, and picking. It’s different every day. niio
I remember you telling us that story before, Lin. What a harrowing experience THAT must have been. Escaping from the Soviets. I can only imagine.
My maternal grandfather more or less went through the same thing. At the end of the 1st WW he, together with his 1st wife and six small children, were being sent off to Siberia. Somehow he managed to escape from the Soviets and that was the start of their long trek. How he managed to get six small children safely through the aftermath of the 1st WW is beyond me. He was heading to a small town in what was then Poland close to the border of Germany where he knew his in-laws lived. On the way there his wife was bitten by a rabid dog and she suffered horribly for half a year before passing away. The only hospital he knew that was still operating was in Lithuania and that’s where he was headed with his sick wife and six small children. He had to basically carry his wife for those six months. But she never made it to the hospital. Destroyed his back. He then altered his direction to the home of his in-laws where he met his 2nd wife which was my maternal grandmother. And he had ANOTHER six kids with his 2nd wife. Not a lot of TV in those days. 😉
Mums are absolutely amazing. They can take a little water. Some veggies. A little meat. Not always though. A lot of love and make a delicious meal for the family day after day without complaining. Damn I miss my mum so much. She passed away in 2015 and my heart STILL breaks to this day just talking about her like this. Sigh. 🙁 My grandmother had to feed those 12 hungry mouths. Each day she baked two giant loaves of rye bread along with all the other things she had to cook each day. And the 1st six wouldn’t accept the 2nd wife as THEIR mother. Even though they basically hated her she still soldiered on. Hell of a woman. You don’t much find that type of strength these days anymore. We’ve become soft, weak and sick.
What you’re describing is basically what I call French Canadian split pea soup. I have a bunch of it in cans. Not much pork in there but a little lard for extra flavour. For whatever reason pork and split peas go well together. Pork and beans. Beans and wieners.
We’ll all rise to the occasion, Lin. We’ll all do whatever we have to do to survive while still remaining true to our principles and not compromising them. We can fight the war in an honourable manner or not. I choose to remain honourable, ethical and true to myself. Doesn’t mean I’m a pushover. I realize that at some point I may have to deal with people trying to break into my home and that will force me to step out of my comfort zone. At that point it’s me or them. I don’t think many of us realize how difficult it is to kill another person unless you’ve been a soldier in an active war zone. For most of us killing others goes against our basic nature. If things go completely for a shit in the next few years then we’ll be forced to change and adapt in ways we can’t imagine at this point. None of us will come out the other side completely unscathed or completely unchanged.
You have such a good heart, Lin. I can feel the love in you. Never let your heart close down completely. No matter what. 🙂
Stay strong. Just realize you WILL make it through the coming chaos and you will. All the very best to you and yours, Lin. xoxo
Armin: It sounds like my family trying to escape the democrats. No, I’m not joking. niio
@red OUCH to the rotator cuff injury, red! No fun. 🙁 There are a lucky few that grow old slim and fit. I’m not one of them. I’ve always been a bit let’s say “husky”. And now it’s even worse. I’m eating much less and still gaining weight. Darn slowing metabolism. Doesn’t help that I’m so depressed with all that’s happening around me. I just basically look at food and gain a couple of pounds. So easy to gain weight now but so difficult to shed those extra pounds. But I have started seriously exercising and I know it’s doing me some good. Just have to keep it up. Let’s see what I can do in half a year. And then forward from there. It’ll be summer again.
The more I’m learning about republicans and democrats, your version of our conservatives and liberals, respectively, the more I’m disliking liberals. My feeling is that your democrats are worse than out liberals. At the very least; “different”. I think we ALL need to get as far away from them as possible. But in this day and age I don’t think conservatives are much better. The quality of modern leadership has gone right down the dumper. In some a ways I’m glad we’re still part of the British commonwealth. May make it more difficult to implement a true dictatorship here.
By Trudeau legalizing cannabis we’ve now ended up with a drug-addled Canadian culture. I know that’s just one more step in the grand plan of the ruling elite. Keep ’em dumb, fat and happy and you have less resistance to implementing the plans of the state.Gives those in power more leeway to do with us as they wish. Maybe we should be learning the Russian national anthem. Or learning to speak Chinese.
Give them dumbed down TV programs. Talking heads on the news. Little electronic devices they get addicted to. 5G. A digital currency and voila! You have total control of the global population. We will be happy and want for nothing. The utopian (dystopian?) nanny state. Be good or mama will spank you.
The latest in the vaxxed/unvaxxed fight here is that the province right beside me, Quebec (French Canadians), has implemented or is in the process to pass legislation to fine the unvaxxed. And quite a hefty “fine” too. I think Trudeau is starting to eye that as a possible strategy to try and force the rest of us to accept the vaccine. The plan to develop this type of virus was a stroke of genius. It’s completely disrupted the world and divided us along the lines of vaxxed vs unvaxxed. In any crisis you always need a scapegoat. Of course the unvaxxed are responsible for the increasing case count of this new and ever changing virus.
If our prime minister decides to go down that path I’ll talk to my lawyer. I won’t pay. They can go screw themselves. As far as I know we still have the Nuremberg Code as a viable defence against anyone or anything trying to force any medicine or medical procedure on is against our will. They CAN NOT do it without our verbal or written consent! Emergency measures be damned! With any kind of luck I’ll be successful and Trudeau will end up in prison IF he follows through on that. At the very least off of the political stage. I’ll leave you with this, red. Two things. How the unvaxxed will know each other. Adopt the beaverine as our mascot. LOL! A product of the combination of a wolverine and beaver. Basically a beaver on steroids. We do love our beavers. 😉 Secondly an old speech from JFK. It may become our rallying cry. He wasn’t perfect by any means but I sincerely believe he wanted to change things for the better. And the status quo doesn’t like that. I think if we want true change we may have to adopt the strategies of Lech Walesa. He was quite successful against a communist regime.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWpwyTIC98U
Armin, A few months ago, I watch a video of (I think) Ottawa. This was after dark and some people were walking home from the Synagogue and others walking home from the local bars. The police were giving the Orthodox Jewish people with huge fines of many thousands of dollars for being out after curfew. If the people tried to ask a simple short question of the police, after $1000 fine was tacked on. The police did not give the people walking home from the bars fines.
Ol’ Trudeau must need to finance some more of his funny costumes.
Armin: Beaverine? sounds OK, but would it be able to fend off, say, a jackalope? How about cave monsters? We don’t like liberals going into Arizona’s cave systems because if one gets eaten, they cause food poisoning. Same with poor World Destroyer. would a beaverine be able to face her if she has a tunny ache from eati9ng a liberal? Rattlesnake, two heads, many meters long. She’s featured at Cahokia, swallowing the world.
Gates wants to reduce the world population by 350,000 a day till they get to only the wealthy and their houseboys. Like Tante would say, he sieg heils with the best of them. hjitler got that from Arrhenius, and passed it on to the dnc and your liberals. Vaccines, gates said, and smiled, are the way to do it. NYC blacks are fighting but they’ll be forced to cave to the nazis.
Laws to liberals are suggestions. I’m libertarian by nature, but they’re creepy about it.
Trudeau is a dem houseboy. Most of the PRI in Mexico are the same. They obey out of greed and fear. Ann Coulter has a good article in Townhall about Epstein and his girlfriend. Epstein lived till fear overcame the liberals. She feels Maxwell is not going to survive long, either. Dems are treating her as they did Epstein.
If feels like Washington’s Black Clouds. We can’t turn around that enemies are crowding us. JFK was the last financially conservative dem pres we had. Reagan took JFK’s trickle down economy and, like JFK did, made America’s economy run smooth.
YouTube has a lot on self-repair of rotator cuffs. It helps. niio
Heck, we grew up in the late 50’s-60’s without much money and we had some of these and a few of our own similar recipes and we thought we were eating pretty well. Now we weren’t 300 pounder’s either but we just assumed everybody else was eating a well as we were and life was a lot happier and full of nature back then. The law was the law and the schools taught us the three R’s and life was just better back then, without money and the corruption it seems to always bring.
Hey guys. Hope you had a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year. Hope you had the good luck to avoid the omicron. I think I picked it up over the holidays. I had a day of “unpleasant” symptoms and then it was gone again. In addition to the resources on this page there are any number of utube videos that also feature depression era recipes. The people of that time were much more resourceful when it came to putting together meals. They just used whatever they had on hand. Today people are much more spoiled. It will take quite a change in thinking for many if starvation becomes widespread. In the last week or so we’ve lost a couple of notable people in the prepper community. A disturbing trend I hadn’t thought of before. Can’t believe people can have such evil thoughts. And this is before shtf. There are a few people that have publically stated that they have no interest in prepping food and water and the essentials. Instead they’ve accumulated a virtual arsenal and are prepared to take by force what others have so laboriously prepped. Another group we need to be prepared to defend ourselves against. ’22 may turn out to be much more interesting than ’21. They keep tightening the screws. In all your prepping activities and daily activities don’t come from a place of fear. Come from a place of love. “THEY” can’t fight against love. In the end I don’t think THEY’LL win anyways. But they will try and make it as unpleasant for the rest of us as they can. Latest is detention camps being set up in Washington state. Be aware. Keep prepping. Persevere. Remain strong.
Armin, I had not heard of the two who were lost in the last week or so. Perhaps those who are better connected in this community already know the details. This forum is my only contact with this community.
It is difficult to keep with all the extreme changes going on. The major change is people’s value system. I would never have dreamed that there could be more than one crazy person in the corner somewhere who would express the desire to steal what others have set aside. That there could be at least two, so that a conversation in that direction would ensue, is shocking to me.
The camp is slated to be built in Centralia, Washington. That has historically been a good and caring farming community. In fact, I have ordered the world’s best powdered goat milk from a dairy there. The farmer grows flats of barley greens to feed the goats in the winter so their milk is very sweet. I have used the powder in my morning coffee – very yummy.
When my child was small and sometimes had stomach troubles, I would open up a capsule of goat milk based acidolphus to mix into the bottle. A quick cure, every time.
These were preppers that had utube channels. Lin. It’s always sad when those kinds of people pass away.
I’m doing my very best to try and keep up with a small number of utube prep channels. Even now as I’m writing this it’s 4 in the morning for me. This is my last reply for today. Tomorrow? I HAVE to go to sleep. It’s a lot of time and effort but I have to know what’s going on in the world. So much is happening and so much is changing so quickly. People are becoming fed up. You’re obviously aware of the situation in Turkey, China and Kazakhstan to name a few. To me what’s happening is a true global paradigm shift and it’s gonna be a mother! If you’re not prepared for it then you’re gonna get squashed.
There will always be lazy people that think they can take by force what others have accumulated. No sympathy whatsoever for them. If they try something with me I’ll have no problems doing my best to put them down. Permanently!
I’m glad there are others that are aware of the government’s plans to build quarantine camps. I don’t think they’ll have as quite an easy time of it as they did in Australia. Too many Americans are armed and ticked off. A dangerous combination. I hope the armed forces come to their senses and fight on the side of the people. The current power structure needs to come down. The amount of corruption now in the system is beyond belief. An airing out is overdue.
Every once in a while I’ll catch the exchanges between Fauci and a senator or an investigator and I have to laugh. What an ignorant lying piece of shyte he is. Frickin’ psychopath. He needs to be brought up on charges. The immunity that Big Pharma has against criminal charges being brought against them needs to be rescinded. They need to be held accountable for this genocide against humanity. What they’re doing is nothing less than war crimes and they need to pay for their crimes.
All the very best, Lin. Keep prepping as long as you can and don’t let the bastards grind you down! LOL! Stay safe.
armin: I can’t recall which book, but Pearl S. Buck wrote a piece about a famine in China where the farm wife and her family were raised by starving neighbors because they thought she was cooking food. It was manure. I cannot imagine how bad things may get, but remember at one time it was common enough in northern Europe. Vikings called it reindeer salad.
niio
I believe it was called The Good Earth if memory serves. Let’s try and stay optimistic about the future, red. Think I’ll pass on the “reindeer salad”. I’m prepared to weather a decade long downturn. Whether it takes the form of an extended recession, depression or even an extended hyperinflationary period. I don’t care. I’m prepared. And if those in power try to start stealing people’s homes I’ll blow the frickin’ thing up with me inside it before I allow those bastards to steal my home. The difference between this time and the thirties is that there was no internet back then. It’s allowed us to discuss and prepare in ways that wasn’t possible at that time. It’s allowed us to at least mitigate the severity of the coming storm to some degree. We won’t be COMPLETELY surprised by it. If they want to bring in a digital currency system there’s nothing much we can do about it. Just have enough gold and silver on hand so that when they do decide to change to a CBDC you can trade your gold and silver in for the new currency. Right now try to convert as much of your fiat currency into as many tangible goods as you can Stay safe. Stay strong my friend. 🙂
Armin: Let’s hope we all can pass up that salad 🙂
GtT Gone to Texas, was found on many a tree next to the ashes of many a house back after Jackson was elected president. If the family had enough time, they sifted the ashes for nails. If not, then girdled the fruit and nut trees and ran with the clothes on their backs. niio
red
where can I read more about that house-burning and tree-girdling?
ST: History, personal journals, news accounts about settlers. As you might imagine, it’s not a popular topis with liberals because jacksonites were the criminals behind most of the folks leaving.
BTW, liberals are touting hillary the genocidal beast clintion as the ideal 2024 candidate. this was predicted decades ago at a pow wow up east. That she would be the last president and oversee the destruction of the country in line with Geo. Washington’s Valley Forge prophecies. That last one is called black clouds. niio
Thanks, Red. Yeah, fans of Mr. J don’t like to hear about his involvement in real estate speculation…
How about, Chrisco spread over bread and topped with sugar.
We must have been rich. Never had Crisco on bread with sugar but most definitely butter on bread with sugar on top. Warm bread fresh from the oven spread with butter and coated with sugar — ambrosia, food for the gods. Wow! I almost feel like nuking some bread and covering it with butter and sugar. If it weren’t so late at night, I would but old age keeps me from late night snacking — unless I want to spend the better part of the night studying the ceiling.
LCC: Butter with some cinnamon and brown sugar over French bread; toast in oven. 🙂 niio
Toast with butter and cinnamon sugar…yummm! That was the best part about recovering from the any kind of illness as a kid.
visiting my brother, noticed moldy sourdough bread and moldy cheddar cheese in the fridge. took it out, he said ‘been meaning to through away” i ripped of moldy piece and scrapped of from cheese. spread some butter and slices of cheese then popped in his “new” hot air oven toast machine and fresh ground brewed coffee. DELICIOUS he looks at me “you’re gonna get sick” nope been a week now. besides if i did i just take activated charcoal that i make on my own.
crisco and sugar !? i’ve had mayo and bread. peanut butter on corn tortillas, strawberry preserves on flour tortillas. tortillas with beans, bean sandwiches. egg / bean sandwiches
NO! 🙁 LOL!
Ever hear of that saying, “Don’t Eat your SEED Corn”?
The first place I ever heard that was when I wanted to peel some potatoes for fried potato skins. Normally you peel them a bit thick and fry them.
Grandmother saw me and chewed me out mostly in angry German. Seems IF you thick peel (1/4 inch+) sprouting potatoes you can PLANT them and grow MORE potatoes. A dusting of ag sulfur powder and plant them. Second best, you can dry it overnight then plant them.
This past spring, I decided to try out Grandmother’s peel plantings. I planted a dozen without the sulfur dusting and 8 grew up and were hilled and harvested as normal. I was a bit more careful weeding and side dressing them as they started slow but soon were the same as the “Normal” seed Potatoe plantings.
Grandmother also would mulch some of the cabbage stubs instead of composting them. Next spring, they would resprout and grow some cabbage leaves (No heads) early and a SEED Spike. Cabbage is Biannual and that means you have to overwinter cabbage to get seeds for your next crop.
Same sort of thing with Carrots (also Biannual) except you leave a dozen in the ground unharvested and mulched for next years seed spike.
No wonder German meals seemed always to have potatoes, cabbage and such in them.
A snip of common Biannual vegetables: Biennials in the Vegetable Bed
Many of the crops in our edible beds, including beets, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, celery, chard, collard, endive, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, onions, parsley, parsnip, rutabaga, salsify, and turnips are biennial. Though with many of these, we harvest them fully on their first year of growth, before they flower.
So as Grandmother would say “Don’t Eat your Seed Crops”.
Add black Schifferstadt radishes, raw, for something tasty, if you like mild horseradish 🙂 It’s near time to plant potatoes, and I hope to get some. niio
Michael, you made me smile. Oma ALWAYS saved the thick peels and we replanted them. Cabbage was the food of the healty she would say. I remeber roasted cabbage and pork shank with potatoes. We were poor, but I never knew it.
Interesting article.
The absolute worst sounding depression era food I have heard of is peanut butter stuffed baked onions, although with the right seasoning it might be similar to a Thai peanut sauce. I have read of NOBODY who tested this and actually could eat it.
Perhaps I will try to make a palatable version when I next buy onions…..?
That’s a LOT of peanut butter to eat at one time, Miss Kitty. Probably make you sick. What I would be willing to try is fried onions mixed with peanut butter on a slice topped with cranberry sauce. That might actually work because the onions become sweet when fried. You can only eat so much peanut butter at one time. It’s a LOT of calories we really don’t need. Remember. Green side up! LOL! Stay safe.
When I was the camp cook for a group of friends about 40-strong, toward the end of a two week historical reenactment event, I would put together a huge pot of “Bigos,” a Polish Hunter’s Stew. The basis is a can or jar of sauerkraut and a head of cabbage chopped up. After that add pepper, caraway seed, garlic, onions and whatever leftover or fresh veggies you have, some tomato sauce (I usually had some spaghetti sauce left over) and whatever meats you have including smoked sausages, cooked meat or freshly browned meat. Add some water and cider, beer or wine and let it simmer for the afternoon, checking liquid levels to make sure it doesn’t scorch on the bottom. Serve with some hearty bread and you can feed the entire camp, a bunch of guests and still have leftovers for the next day’s lunch, all while using up the leftovers from the previous week or so.
I found the original recipe in the local newspaper back in Buffalo, NY which has a huge Polish population. When I was growing up, the statistics said there were more people of Polish descent living in the Buffalo metro area than in Warsaw, Poland. Strangely, I never had Kielbasa until I moved away from there.
These days, I fry chopped cabbage, butter and caraway seed and add it to fried potatoes on a frequent basis. It is one way to add green vegetables to our diet that my husband actually likes. I’m not sure whether it is a German thing or an Irish thing but it works for us.
Sagebrush Lin, be cautious about allowing your cat to eat mice. In some parts of the country, mice carry the Toxoplasmosis parasite which reproduces sexually only in felines. It reproduces asexually in other species. It can be transmitted in fecal matter when cleaning out the litter box and has been known to cause birth defects in fetuses when contracted by pregnant women and is suspected of causing schizophrenia in humans. It is an evil organism and will also affect the health and well-being of your feline family members, not to mention the expense of the antibiotics. It actually affects the neural pathways of mice and causes them to seek out the company of their feline predators instead of avoiding them. Apparently, sex is a very strong motivator, even for single-celled organisms.
Sabel, The old adage about the “crazy cat lady” is most likely because of that organism that can be caught from cats. I read somewhere a few years ago that a percentage of mental illness has been caused by people who live very closely with their cats, such as, sharing a pillow while sleeping.
My Home Depot cat most likely won’t be eating any mice. She has learned how to get commercially processed cat treats from me.
Sabel: this is the Kielbasa recipe we use. Goes very good with sauerkraut.
Kielbasa
Also called kielbasy or Polish sausage , this smoked sausage is usually made of pork, though beef can also be added. It comes in chunky (about 2 inches in diameter) links and is usually sold precooked, though an occasional butcher will sell it fresh. Kielbasa can be served separately or cut into pieces as part of a dish. Even the precooked kielbasa tastes better when heated.
• 4 teaspoon coarse (kosher) salt
• 1 3/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 3 tablespoon sweet Hungarian paprika
• 1 teaspoon dried marjoram, crumbled
• 1/2 teaspoon dried savory, crumbled
• 2 teaspoon finely minced garlic
• 10 oz trimmed beef shin, cut into /2″ dice and chilled
• 16 oz fresh pork fat, cut into 1/2″ dice and chilled
• 1/3 c ice water
• 1 1/4 lb. lean, trimmed pork, cut into 1″ dice and chilled
Mix together in a small bowl the salt, pepper, paprika, marjoram, savory, and garlic.
In the container of a food processor combine the beef, half the pork fat, half the ice water, and half the mixed seasonings (see step 1) and process to a very fine grind. Scrape into a mixing bowl.
In a bowl combine the remaining seasonings, the pork, remaining pork fat, and remaining water. Process half of the mixture at a time to a coarse grind and add to the beef. Mix together very thoroughly, cover, and chill for 24 hours.
Stuff the sausage into casings, tying links at 10″ to 30 ” intervals, depending upon your preference. Both sizes (and everything in between) are considered traditional. Hang the sausages in a cool, airy place for several hours at least, or until the skin is smooth, dry, and crackley.
If it’s too hot or humid to hang the sausages, refrigerate them, uncovered, for at least 12 hours.
To store, refrigerate for up to 3 days, or freeze for longer keeping.
To cook: Place one or more sausages in a large skillet with water to come halfway up them. Bring to a simmer and cook for about 8 minutes, then turn and cook for about 8 minutes on the other side. Pour off the water, prick the sausages, and cook them over moderate heat until browned on both sides.
My grandfather was a chef during the depression, my mother told me she ate steak and lobster and other things brought home from the restaurant.
She would have to go to a friend’s house for beans because her father refused to make them.
They were not well off, just lucky.
Why is it I am reading this but hear it in my head as the guy who narrates these videos?
https://youtu.be/LxBV7cg8j1o
LOL watching it, thanx for the link
Hard to say EX. You’re probably just more evolved than the rest of us. 😉 In those days people just did what they had to do. Tightened their belts and buckled down for the greater good. There was still some civility and mutual respect left in the world at that point. Good video. Tanks mushly.
Exodus, great link, please post more
Michael,
OH has been off line since before the holidays. He said he was going to be out of contact for a bit.
Yes, I always listened to him when he spoke. Kinda like EF Hutton. Lol
Showing my age on that one.
Anony Mee has 3 articles on American Thinker. She is really worried Bout upcoming shortages!
Hope all is well with ya. Cold ? ?
At your AO.
We passed the cold but now is rain rain and more rain. So flooding is happening every where. Also had some King Tides recently that swamped our coasts.
We have all been down with bad cold that has turned to viral pneumonia in 2 of the grandboys and my Mama. No fun!!!
Peace
MadFab
Tea, rest and soup my friend MadFab. Sometimes I add a dose of ivermectin just in case.
I though OH and I were both banned at the same time. Read a message that referred to him and his grocery shortages message to MSB ‘as he who cannot be posted”. Joe c’s query about me was removed.
Freedom it’s such an elusive thing 🙂
Michael,
That has been mostly what is happening. Hubby and 2 of the boys better and off to work/ school. 1 has viral Pneumonia and is puny another just very tired and looking pale.
My mama is the 1 I am most worried about. She just isn’t getting any better even after a z pac. We have All tested neg x2 for the Vid.
Yes he who shall not be allowed to post! So many have left the site in the last 2 years. Sad!
Did ya see arti les at American Thinker Anony Mee wrote? Really good. One smart cookie !!
Well maybe I should say something re the article.
My Bubbe would make lots of cheap but delicious meals from her time in what is now Czech Republic.
One of her” American” dishes from the depression was porcupines. Meat balls with uncooked rice and seasonings. Roll the rice and the meat mixture then cook I. Campbell’s tomatoes soup and water to cover. Served over mashed potatoes.
My kids and grandkids still enjoy it. Stretches meat well.
Peace
MadFab
@Michael hey, Michael. I see that you just mentioned Ivermectin. If you like that you might like the recipe for homemade Hydroxychloroquine. The peels of 3 grapefruit and 3 lemons is the basic recipe. You could probably add the peels of either limes or oranges if you wanted to. Peel them. Boil the peels for a couple of hours. Pour off the liquid through a strainer. Let ’em cool. Drink.
Armin sent you a reply with Hydroxychloroquine recipe.
i’ve also seen DIY on you tube
This comment doesn’t have anything to do with prepping but this article reminded me of a funny story my father-in-law told me.
He was born in 1919 and passed on several years ago. He was orphaned when he was 10 years old. He and his future brother-in-law did some hoboing in those days riding the freight trains from town to town. One of the things they did to get fed was to go into town in the residential areas. He told about going to a house one day, knocked on the front door and then ran out in the front yard, got down on his hand and knees and acted like he was grazing on the grass like a cow. The woman in the house came to the door and said “if you’ll go around to the back yard the grass isn’t as trampled down.”
He worked in the CCC and WPA camps too a little later on in southeast Oklahoma and Arkansas as I remember.
I don’t think we have any idea how bad times were or how hungry folks got.
A tiny country, Estonia, has been subjugated through the centuries by the Swedes, Danes, Germans and most notably, the Russians. The Estonian people had to learn to adapt as the overlords took the good produce and meat producing animals. The Estonian tradition for the holidays, is not to have a Christmas turkey. It is to have a food made out of what the foreign invaders didn’t want. Christmas sausage is the result. The filling is mostly barley with blood and various herbs in lamb’s intestine casing. It is roasted in the oven until the casing is crisp and served with cranberry sauce.
With the right cooks, almost any food can be made quite palatable.
One of the top 10 favorite dishes in EASTONIA is split pea and ham soup.
Did you ever try Estonian blood sausage?
ClergyLady: Here, too! niio
Clergylady, I’ve always liked peas for as long as I can remember, and I really like split peas with ham soup, especially if you add milk to make it a bit creamier. I also like bean with bacon soup with a dash of milk added.
Blood sausage.. my husband’s people (Slovaks) call it houdka (they say it like hude kee). I am guessing it is not healthy, but it is often on our table,
Tee,
Estonians call it verivorst. If there is a negative to the sausage, it is counteracted by all the positive goodwill that usually goes along with holiday spirit, plus it’s made healthier with a sauerkraut side.
As I read all the comments, it looks like this community is capable of being pretty inventive and will be able to make a meal out of whatever comes their way.
I recently purchased a couple of jars of sauerkraut from Poland. Such a disappointment! They must have had a problem at the factory. I couldn’t eat it. I took one bite and it tasted like dirt and didn’t smell right. Tossed it all.
Hey, where can I get the recipe for the frozen jello “ice cream”? I got the ingredients but not the process! Please and thank you.
Peggy, I just did a search for “frozen jell-o recipes” and lots of links showed. I bet there is something in there somewhere worth trying.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=frozen+jell-o+recipes&form=ANNTH1&refig=8974e28ffc8f4bd9bf706d32e0a9f970
then I searched for “jello ice cream recipes” and a lot of links also showed:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=jello+ice+cream+recipe&qs=MT&pq=jello+ice+cream&sk=AS1&sc=8-15&cvid=A0585A76999444A48548A8785807F61A&FORM=QBRE&sp=2
My Grandmother used to make a moch apple pie with no apples. It was a pie crust filled with crashed up soda crackers, cinnamon, sugar and lemon juice. Although it did not taste like apple pie, it wasn’t too bad.