Could You Stomach These Great Depression Meals?
The
Survival Mom
With all the
talk about food storage and growing our own food, I did a little
digging around to find out what some people ate during America’s
Great Depression of the 1930?s. Surprisingly, a few of these were
made by my mother and grandmother, traditions, I’m sure, from
a more frugal era. I still have a soft spot for Chipped Beef on
Toast! How many of these are familiar to you, and do you have any
others to add to the list?
- Milk toast
- Chipped
beef on toast
- Cucumber
and mustard sandwiches
- Mayonnaise
sandwiches
- Ketchup
sandwiches
- Hot milk
and rice
- Turtle/tortoise
- Gopher
- Potato soup
– water base, not milk
- Dandelion
salad
- Lard sandwiches
- Bacon grease
sandwiches
- Sugar sandwiches
- Hot dogs
and baked beans
- Road kill
- One eyed
Sam – piece of bread with an easy over egg in the center
- Oatmeal
mixed with lard
- Fried potatoes
and hot dogs
- Onion sandwich
– slices of onion between bread
- Tomato gravy
and biscuits
- Deep fried
chicken skin
- Cornbread
in milk
- Gravy and
bread – as a main dish
- Toast with
mashed potatoes on top with gravy
- Creamed
corn on toast
- Corn mush
with milk for breakfast, fried corn mush for dinner
- Squirrel
- Rice in
milk with some sugar
- Beans
- Fried potato
peel sandwiches
- Banana slices
with powdered sugar and milk
- Boiled cabbage
- Hamburger
mixed with oatmeal
- American
cheese sandwich, ‘American’ cheese was invented because
it was cheap to make, and didn’t require refrigeration that
may or may not exist back then.
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December
30, 2011
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