If you love molten chocolate lava cakes, you'll probably get just as much joy out of this make-do Depression-era treat that ...
Volunteers donate meals from their own tables. Or, like the volunteers we caught up with at St. Jerome's Church in Northeast Philadelphia, they cook in church or synagogue kitchens. As the economy ...
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Depression-Era Meals Worth Trying

The Great Depression wasn’t just an economic catastrophe — it was a culinary revolution born from necessity. Between 1929 and ...
Here's how Irish-Italian spaghetti became a Depression-era favorite, blending simple ingredients into a dish that worked ...
Grandparents often have some, well, odd wisdom to share. Like the time I had a sore throat and my grandpa told me to take silver nitrate — not exactly conventional. Sometimes their advice came from a ...
At a time when a majority of adults say that they are concerned about the cost of food, a new generation of home cooks is teaching audiences on social media how to cook cheap, easy and filling recipes ...
"I was a young girl in the late '20s when my mom made this recipe, but it was called Eggless, Milkless, Butterless Cake." So writes Loretta DeWitte of Bettendorf in response to a cake recipe printed ...
Patrons attending the final day of the annual Post-Bulletin Cooking School in 1936, left with door prizes ranging from potted plants, a 49-pound sack of flour, a large baked ham, an electric mixer and ...