Vintage recipes can be interesting in making them. The rice is cooked in this rice pudding recipe until it falls apart. It works, but you start questioning your idea to make it right up to dishing the pudding up. A taste of it warm confirms it was worth cooking the life out of that poor… Continue reading Vintage Recipes: Cream Rice Pudding
Tag: Great Depression
Date Gingerbread
I found this recipe online with a scanned picture from Better Homes & Gardens. What era is it from? It is hard to tell, but there are a few clues about when the original recipe originated. Using baking soda with vinegar to activate the soda is an older method, often seen in Great Depression recipes… Continue reading Date Gingerbread
Depression Era Recipes: Tomato Spice Cake
The Campbell Soup Company first sold canned condensed tomato soup in 1895. A pantry staple long ago, it was affordable as America plunged headfirst into the Great Depression in the summer of 1929. The tomato spice cake came out of the extreme recipes created in that time period. The cake/bread required no eggs, milk, or… Continue reading Depression Era Recipes: Tomato Spice Cake
Depression Era Recipes: Chocolate Pie
Straight out of a reprint copy of My Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook, the first edition published in the Great Depression is this recipe for Chocolate Pie. Just because times were very tough, you still needed a little comfort food to make the years better. See here why I picked up this cookbook that was… Continue reading Depression Era Recipes: Chocolate Pie
Great Depression Era Recipes: My Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook
I know as a child I saw the original book of My Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook (and it was an antique by then): My Mom had friends who were off-grid homesteaders who lived up in the foothills. Living their best early 80's hippy lifestyle. She was also friends with elder ladies who had vast… Continue reading Great Depression Era Recipes: My Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook