Emmy of the Emmymade channel at YouTube has a series of videos about what people facing starvation — or just a lack of money in their food budget — have been known to eat.
Let’s start with Hoover Stew from the Great Depression. I think at current prices this would cost more than $5, but the ingredients are all inexpensive, and the stew would definitely feed a lot of hungry people..
The dish was named for Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, whose term was notably marked by the stock market crash of 1929 and the beginnings of the Great Depression.
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Recipe is at the above link. [11:59]
Try Goetta, a Cincinnati favorite, with your eggs instead of breakfast sausage.
The concept goetta is similar to Pennsylvania Dutch scrapple, Polish kishka and Scottish haggis in that, all these originally being peasant dishes, it was a way to make the most of every part of the animal – to use up the scraps – and to make them stretch to feed the most people possible.
www.daringgourmet.com/...
Recipe is at the link above. [9:42]
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Steak...from a grapefruit?
Invented in Cuba in the 1990s, bistec de toronja looks like a breaded cutlet but is made of the white spongey pith of a grapefruit. Here's how to prepare it -- and the deets on how it tastes.
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You’d have to be really hungry to make this. [10:59]
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How about the famous Garbage Plate?
With its origins of Rochester, New York, The Garbage Plate is an icon. Legend has it that this gut buster was born in 1918 at Nick Tahou's Hots, and became popular during the Great Depression as a filling, inexpensive meal. Why 'garbage' you say? Well, it's a pile of food built of home fries, macaroni salad, cheeseburger patties, meat sauce, chopped onions, mustard, and ketchup.
From the YouTube description
This one’s more of a restaurant dish, but Emmy demonstrates a home version. [8:55]
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And then there are Cream Burgers
FlomoCraft’s burger recipe calls for 250 grams of ground beef—that’s not quite 9 ounces for us non-chefs. A plain, unoffensive starting point. From there, everything goes south. An unexpectedly large amount of heavy cream and milk added to the ground beef turns the mixture into a meaty bland soup.
Fear not….
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Follow Emmy on this one. [14:14]
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For a sweetener, there’s Corn Cob “Honey”
[C]orn cob jelly was used in place of corn syrup when that was scarce or unaffordable. Since the taste was indistinguishable from corn syrup, it made sense to make it in the summer when corn was plentiful.
It was also used as a honey substitute. In this recipe, we are gong to be condensing the juice from our corn cobs into a jelly or honey-like substance that we can smear on toast.
www.emmymade.com/...
Recipe is at the above link. [12:00; video starts @ 2:15]
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Dessert brings us a Poor Man’s Boiled Cake, a Depression Era recipe for a moist spice cake that’s easy on the budget.
This Poor Man's Cake recipe includes boiling a syrup to make a cake that contains no eggs, butter, or milk.
From the YouTube description
[6:26]
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To drink? Dandelion Root Coffee will go well with that cake
During the Civil War, the Confederate Army was often scrambling for provisions including life-giving coffee. Dandelion root coffee among others (acorn, corn, persimmon) was often made as a substitute, so since my lawn is filled with them right now, I thought I'd make a cup of #dandelion #coffee. ☕️
From the YouTube description
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Feel free to add your own hard times recipes in the comments.
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So c’mon in the cafe and grab a cuppa...
...and a nice nosh...
...and join us!
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