Depression Era Cooking

[Ron Mauer Sr]

Lovely 96 year old Clara has videos about cooking during the depression. Clara will surely charm you with her informative and delightful videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/DepressionCooking).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXpouL9Q1iY&feature=plcp

[Knowrainknowrainbows!]

That was a heart and belly warming video .... educational, too!

Thanks!
KRKR

[GlassSteagallfan]

rmausersr,

During the spring, I took a 5 gallon food grade plastic bucket and cut 16 lines uniformly around it. Then using a heat gun and a block of wood, stretched each cut into a hole and let it cool. Then fill with soil and add a 2" pvc pipe down the center with holes in it. You can grow 16 lettuce or strawberry plants (or others) around the outside of the bucket. Then maybe radishes on the top. A portable garden!

When I get pictures, you could put them on your website if you wish.

[MorningSong]

Thanks, rmauersr.1 That nice lady must be Italian. The meal she presents there is actually still quite often eaten here...very typical to my area, anyway.

Here is a video she did preparing Dandelions.... just like I've been taught here. Enjoy!

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[Ron Mauer Sr]

I would like to see your bucket pictures GlassSteagallfan (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?2917-GlassSteagallfan)

Thanks

[delfine]

So sweet and heartwarming. Made my evening! Thank you :) <3

[sigma6]

Wonderful refreshing, what a lovely soul, and that actually had something very familiar for me, not far from the kind of cooking I do! simple and hardy, meat fried in olive oil with lemon, some rice and beans, a simple salad and bread, home cooking all the way... I have never cooked my rice right in the lentils, am definitely going to try that.

I like the way she called the electric stove "gas"... and still cooking at 96, I noticed she has an old style corningware ceramic coffee percolator, they make the best coffee and last forever... my only concern is she looked like she was using aluminum pots, poor dear I hope not...

[Caren]

Thank you rmauersr and MorningSong, Clara is such a lovely lady.
When we were growing up we often picked Dandelions, especially for the older people in our village and of course we gave the pretty yellow flowers to our mother (she pretended to like them ;)
Mom experienced the Great Depression as a young girl and we heard many stories of how difficult those times were. Everyday things we take for granted ie. tea and sugar were scarce and people came up with inventive ways to get by. From the expression on mom's face and the tone in her voice when speaking of the Depression era - it had to have been a very difficult and sad time in our history. Mom said men couldn't find work and would travel via the trains from across the country, homeless and hungry. Her parents owned a farm and my grandmother would place a few plates of whatever they had for dinner that evening and large containers of fresh milk at the end of their long drive for the men who were passing by. My mother remembers this well.