20 Great Depression era foods WE might need soon

Shoot. My mom ate some of these when we were little.

https://discern.tv/20-great-depression-era-foods-we-will-need-soon/

The List
Squirrel
Desperation Pie
Chicken Feet in Broth
Meatless Meatloaf
Garbage Mashup
Ketchup, Mayonnaise, Onion, or Pickle Sandwich
Mlikorno
Egg Drop Soup (1930s version)
Cooked Break
Shoo-Fly Pie
Navy Bean and Ham Soup
Frozen Fruit Salad
Spaghetti With Boiled Carrots and White Sauce
Buttermilk Soup
Johnny  Cakes
Potato Candy
Stuffed Artichokes
No-Toppings Pizza
Poorman’s Pudding
Rabbit Stew and Dumplings

Grapes of Wrath.....shortening and sugar samiches
politician fricassee
field corn if you got it young enough

I still eat many of these.
Field(dent) corn is very good if you pick it at the right time when the tassles just turn brown and it's still soft.

Not quite as sweet as sweet corn but pretty close.

Squirell is a delicacy and very good.
Hunters here can't wait for squirell season which opens on Oct 1.

Lots of folks call cornbread cooked in a long pan, a jonnycake. Instead of cornbread cooked as muffins.

Here, a jonnycake is simply fried dough or biscuit dough. Like a beignet. Powdered sugar can be added.

Rabbit and squirell stew or gumbo with anything will make you sleep real good at da camp.

Always stretch those leftover beans into soup. Lol.

I think I might already be in a depression.

I hate to tell people that Oreos, etc, are still shortening and sugar cookies.

Here, they just used lard and sugar.

https://www.allrecipes.com/article/desperation-pies/

i knew this had to be desperation pies...andyou can still find recipes for Chess pies even now.

I could eat a condensed milk pie!
Or milk sweetened pie!

HawkTheSlayer wrote:I hate to tell people that Oreos, etc, are still shortening and sugar cookies.

Here, they just used lard and sugar.

No wonder I never liked the things.  Truly.  My sisters never had to worry about me getting between them and the cookies.  The only kind I ever really liked is Nestles Toll House.  Chocolate Chip were an okay substitute.

No mention of Jam Sandwiches.

You know...jam one slice of bread up against the other.

I gotta admit...we didn't eat much of those. We weren't poor like that...but my mother was a poor cook. I guess she tried...when she went back to work in the early 1970s, for the next five years at home I had mostly convenience foods. Partially or fully prepared and frozen...that is, either made with frozen ingredients or just heat-and-serve.

So I never really learned cookery.

But, I share the distaste for Oreos. We had some excellent bakeries in Cleveland...Hough Bakeries was a local chain of bake shops, made their own bread, biscuits, specialty breads, German baked goods, home-style cookies, big enough to choke a kid with. Comes from having a big German population in Cleveland. Before Hough Avenue went black (it was the scene of the 1967 race riots) it had been German, and other German enclaves remained.

There are so few of those local bakeries, and not all that remain are really that good. Just as well...I can't eat like that anymore.

i never liked oreos either. I don't even care that much for chocolate chip.

Do you know ChainGang Candy?