If you’re a fan of pancakes, then you have to try this similar Depression era breakfast food called Southern Johnny cakes! The recipe states 4oz mashed potato so I had to guess the quantity to boil. While making our 1930s recipes, the Taylor Foundation Object Project team experienced how home cooks during the Great Depression made economical use of ingredients and creatively repurposed leftovers.

2. In fact, Bon Appetit actually called meatloaf “an emblem of wartime ingenuity” in the 1940s. There was a little left over but sadly I didn't have time to make another dish with this, something a wartime housewife would have done. Recipes from the Twentieth Century from Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads by Sylvia Lovegren. Check out Grandbaby Cakes’ recipe to make a delicious batch for your family! Cake Recipes. Meatloaf was a big deal back in the 1940s. Save money with these frugal recipes from the 1930's.

1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; Cake had not waned in popularity since the Twenties; if anything, it was more popular.

Home remedies recipes from olden times, including mustard plasters, gargles, teas, rubs and other old fashion medical recipes.

Click Here to Send to The 1940s Recipe Housewife! When we took it upon ourselves to try our hands at recipes from 1940s product cookbooks, we experienced a different kind of limitation: World War II rationing.

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Depression Era Meat Loaf. I boiled 3 potatoes weighing about 8oz pre-cooked which created enough mash. And there were so many different recipes for it. Typical Depression Era Main Dishes Cooks from the 1930s had to be quite creative and resourceful, finding ways to use readily available, affordable ingredients. During that decade, homemakers found that ground beef was cheaper than other proteins like steaks and roasts. If you send it, I will post it! There are simple desserts, filling frugal meals, homemade bread recipes and much more to choose from. Apple and Ginger Patty Cakes; Bendigo Savoury Rolls; Black Cap Pudding; Ecstasy Home. Do you have a favorite 1940s recipe that you would like to share?

Recipes from the 1930’s. Please give some background on its origin and why it is a favorite!

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Written by Robin Wallace. 10 Old Fashioned Frugal Recipes from Grandma 1. Home cooks often recorded their recipes in a personal cookbook, some of which have been passed down; several of the recipes here come from these personal journals. Angel or Devil Apple Recipes Barbecue Sauce Beef Dinners Breads, Rolls, and Muffins.

And that popularity now had (pseudo)-scientific backing. It's rare to have a clean, color, modern kitchen of a kitchen from the 1930s. May 26, 2015 - Explore effienicholas's board "1940'S RECIPES VINTAGE" on Pinterest.