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COOKBOOK DEPRESSION ERA RECIPES
About Depression Era Recipes
Product Description Get this collection of more than 450 Depression Era recipes, with nostalgic photos, illustrations and comments. Learn about the Depression Era, how Grandma cooked, and enjoy simple, basic cooking! A collection of over 450 recipes from the Depression Era “Back-to-the-Basics” recipes use ingredients common to most kitchens Includes household hints, weights and measures, a spice guide and even some period poetry Brief descriptions of positive aspects of life during the ’30s are noted throughout the cookbook Written in a light style; nicely illustrated About the Author Patricia Wagner is a retired art teacher and now volunteers as Exhibition Coordinator at the Cambridge Center for the Arts. She lives in rural Minnesota with her husband, Robert. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Rhubarb Dessert 1½ c. rhubarb 1 c. sugar 1 egg 2 T. flour Batter 1 c. flour ½ c. milk Pinch of salt 2 T. butter 1 heaping t. baking powder Wash rhubarb and cut into pieces. Mixed together sugar, egg and flour. Add to rhubarb and put in a baking dish. Then make a batter of the flour, milk, salt, butter and baking powder. Put this batter on top of rhubarb mixture and bake until done. Serve with cream, either plain or whipped. This dish can be made with apples, too, if you don't have any rhubarb. *** American Cornstarch Pudding ½ c. sugar 3 T. cornstarch ¼ t. salt 2 c. milk 1½ t. vanilla Mix it all in the saucepan except for the milk and vanilla. Put on the fire and slowly add the milk while stirring constantly until thick enough. Add vanilla. Serves four people. (In later years, Jackie Kennedy served this at a state dinner, but then it was called “Blanc Mange.” Would the guests have eaten it otherwise?) 1936: The Boulder Dam (later called the Hoover Dam) was completed.
