16 Items Tagged

Great Depression Foods

6 Historical Burgers to Make for July 4th

Boozy fillings, peanut butter toppings, and other interesting recipes of yore.

Sam O'Brien June 30, 2022

Hard times pie is also known as water pie.

This Depression-Era Science Trick Transforms Water Into Pie

How resourceful home bakers managed to make dessert from practically nothing.

Diana Hubbell April 8, 2022

Kitchen hacks from tough times past.

Even More Historic Dishes Born From Tough Times to Make at Home

For every crisis, a recipe.

Luke Fater April 27, 2020

You probably have the ingredients for sugar cream pie in your kitchen.

7 Historic Dishes Born From Tough Times That You Can Make at Home

Use every last crumb with these feats of culinary creativity.

Sam O'Brien March 30, 2020

Fried Onion Burgers

A Depression-era patty filler paved the way for an Oklahoma favorite.

Pickle Pie

A motel restaurant in a tiny Utah town bakes this sweet and sour treat.

Horlicks Malted Milk

This powder proved essential to Arctic exploration, war, and the ice cream parlor.

Peanut Butter & Mayonnaise Sandwich

Now largely forgotten, the pairing was once as popular as PB&J.

Often, crows were cooked with lard or butter.

When Eating Crow Was an American Food Trend

The birds briefly became a delicacy.

Anne Ewbank August 7, 2018

Livermush

North Carolina's “poor man’s pâté” is rich in flavor.

Cracked wheat, anyone?

During the Great Depression, 'Penny Restaurants' Fed the Unemployed

Dishes cost a cent, or even came free.

Anne Ewbank June 15, 2018

Pouding Chômeur

During the Great Depression, Canadian women made “unemployed-person pudding.”

Tea time with Depression-era glass.

The Depression-Era Glassware That Came in Boxes of Oatmeal

These vibrant dishes helped cheer up Americans during a bleak time.

Beth Ward April 26, 2018

Gooey Butter Cake

Everything St. Louisans love about this local specialty is in the name.

City Chicken

The Midwestern mock-poultry classic is fading away.

A tray of corn flake–topped casserole.

Funeral Potatoes

A casserole of cheesy, corn flake–topped tubers offers comfort to Mormons in mourning.