$.35 Cream Burgers | HARD TIMES - stretching your budget

Let's streeetttch our budget by adding sour cream and milk to our beef to make $.35 burgers. 😳Let's do this! #emmymade #budget #creamburger

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
0:22 Hard times means getting inventive.
0:49 Today's inspiration.
0:58 Other examples of budget stretching.
2:29 Let's get started.
2:37 🥩 bloop.
3:37 🥛
7:01 Frying up.
7:20 🐽
10:20 Tasting the patty.
11:23 🍔 tasting.

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[mimisezlol]

Considering that videos known as "content farms" are usually in former soviet union countries, I wouldn't be surprised if heavy cream was a mistranslation of Smetana, a richer sour cream well loved in Slavic and Scandinavian cooking

[NorseButterfly]

This was really interesting. My mom always got creative at meal time when we were young. Towards the end of pay periods, we ate very differently from my friends. My mom even helped me come up with a bean soup once when I was in a really bad spot. I literally only had a can of pinto beans, 1 potato, ketchup, and seasonings. It wasn't the best tasting "soup" I had ever eaten, but my family didn't go hungry that night.

[middleC]

I feel like this would be a good meal for someone who can't chew very well, I was especially thinking the elderly. I used to work as a cook in a nursing home and we had a lot of people who needed soft foods. So they could have this meat patty that's even easier to chew than meatloaf, and something on the side like mashed potatoes and soft cooked green beans or something.

[jennerial]

I live in the South (in America) anyway the way I learned to "stretch" beef is with oats. Add a cup of oats (like plain oatmeal) to anything around beef such as meatloaf or even burgers and you get more and the texture and taste remain beef-like.

[catherinekonc]

My family is from Yugoslavia, this is definitely a Slavic recipe! We used to eat these all the time! I think it tastes even better if you mix in some shredded potatoes (kind of like a latke).

[Panbaneesha]

I've always liked wartime cookbooks. I use them for finding simple recipes, saving money and sometimes just to readjust my perspectice and appreciate what I do have. Many of them can be found in pdf format on the internet for free.
Also, since energy prices keep rising and Germany is literally short on energy right now, I've started building a haybox. Also a time-honoured method of saving cooking fuel. Instructions on how to build one are easy to find.

[nexes]

Please do more hard times meals. So many people having hard times. Would help so many to not go hungry.

[rosietheriveter]

This is my favorite series, especially the Depression era pies!

[jasminemai]

Instead of minced meat, you can also use canned corned beef. Could also use a cup water instead of milk and cream, adjust water to get the batter thickness youd like, don’t have to use the spices, just add salt and sugar in moderation. Still tastes great. That’s how we do in Papua New Guinea 😊

[suzanne]

We had a cow growing up and I remember "heavy cream" at the table every meal. It was thick like sour cream! Plop it in coffee, on your oatmeal... Yum.

[TheBerk]

I live pretty comfortably, but these are the sort of burgers i prefer. One standard i've seen involves adding a packet of chicken noodle soup to the mix. Also starting the patties small and adding a little more after they solidify a little can give them a little more thickness and a base that's less likely to fall apart when you flip. Great vid, thanks!

[sistakia]

I can't afford heavy cream but I made my own (for a different recipe). I don't know that adding cream to meat is better than mixing cooked lentils. We get tons from the food pantry and lentils go with everything and you can eat them for breakfast lunch and dinner. (And a snack)!

[TashaBella]

this is fascinating.. I love that stuff like it exist.. I mean we're all trying to make our wallets stretch a little more and the place that's easiest to do is in the kitchen so recipes like this is gold. the beauty of it is, you can still adapt it.. if its too reminiscent of a pancake add mushrooms or use more ground beef or whatever else you want to stretch it out with.. if you want to stretch it out more I'm sure you could dilute it down even more, adding more flour etc to balance it out.. thus making it more of a pancake but who cares, if it is something you need or want to do, why not..

[ehmha]

In germany we mix ground meat with eggs, milk and bread crumps and Frikadellen are either eaten as a snack, on a bread roll or as me meal with gravy, veggies and potatoes.

[bonecrusher]

You are absolutely fabulous. What stores do you usually do your grocery shopping at? Do you stock up on water? Can you possibly do some in store grocery shopping videos? It would be awesome if you could show how you do your full shopping trip

[memeishere]

added a littke nutritional yeast to give a meaty flavor anda, shot of worchestershire insread of oregano and some carmelized diced onion to the bottem of the pan and pour the batter over them, came out great !

[keihorihata]

Hi, Emmy. The cream that they might have used is the canned cream that we use for cooking and desserts. I know Mexican dishes uses the crema in can like we Filipinos do. We have tetra packs or canned cream in the Phillipines that are shelf stable so that must be the cream that you saw in the original recipe.

[ihadaface]

Edit: I googled it, and the closest recipe I could find was a "loose meat sandwich". Basically a hamburger but the patty is loose ground beef, or a sloppy joe without the sauce. My school lunch was a slightly creamier and more savory version of that.

This is kinda reminding me of something we used to get fed for our school lunches sometimes a long time ago. It was sort of like the consistency of sloppy joes, and was definitely ground meat based (could have been any meat), but it just had a beefy and generally just savory garlic/seasoned type of taste. Just vaguely savory meat flavored. Not awful or off-putting, but definitely unique. The recipe the public school (or company they bought their food from) was probably a recipe akin to this to stretch out the ingredients. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a combination of both dairy AND grains in the ground meat.

[zapdara]

The hard times videos are some of my favourites-people are so resourceful and amazing! *burp!*

[paulahillier]

You are such a good sport. You never say it tastes like crap.😄