HOT WATER Desperation Pie | HARD TIMES -- recipes from times of scarcity

This hot #waterpie recipe was sent to my by Lovely Marjorie whose grandmother made it during the Great Depression. Thanks so much for sharing, Marjorie! 😇 New videos every Thursday and Saturday 8 pm EST.

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[masonkane]

Hard times tip: Don't throw the wrapper from the stick of butter away. Put them in your freezer and use them when you need to grease a pan.

[marjoriemiller]

I'm glad you loved my grandmother's pie! I knew you would give it your honest opinion!

[yummyapplestroodle]

that's exactly how I like my hot water. As a pie

[tukitaki]

Where I'm from desperation meal is a bowl of rice and salt

[brandnewty]

You are like the bob ross of cooking. Don't forget to make two, every pie needs a friend.

[Button-Pop]

Flour? Sugar? Eggs? Butter? These people have more in their pantry during The Depression than I do now.

[Mzmissy]

Was anyone else just expecting a pie shell filled w/ water?

[MG-btxs]

Is there a reason YouTube’s algorithm is showing me so many “hard time” recipe videos lately

[bubblegumplastic]

No matter how many years I've been watching your channel, I always find myself captivated because it's continuously evolving in a fresh and interesting direction.

My point is, this series is delightful. As are all your series! I hope you travel the world someday and take us on even more adventures, once your kids are a little older.

[RollerFoxx]

Emmy has no time for the room temp butter nonsense

[jimmorgan]

Nothing like water pie after you've had your toast soup.

[kmom]

Another odd pie from the Depression era is a Pinto Bean pie that tastes like pecan pie. There are a lot of versions, but basically put you make a flour crust, then the filing a can of pinto beans (or about 1/2 cups cooked pinto beans, a cup of brown sugar, 1/2 a stick of butter, 2-3 eggs, a few pinches each of Cinnamon, Nutmeg and Clove and a dash of vanilla, put the mixture into an unbaked pie and bake at 350 degrees for an hour.

[maritown]

there is this channel called English Heritage and they have a series called the "Victorian way", they have recipes from victorian times. it would be amazing if you could maybe try one of the recipes

[zelmarombado]

There was some kind of vibe I was getting, but I couldn’t quite discern what it was.... then i realized; she reminded me of VELMA from Scooby Doo !! Humble, Nerdy, and Quirky Velma :) socute

[rockiton]

My great-grandmother used to make whipped cream pie during the Great Depression. She would bake a pie crust then mix heavy cream, vanilla extract, and sugar into a heavy cream. After she was done she would put the filling in the crust and serve it. My grandmother still makes it every Christmas for my grandfather. It’s one of my favorites ☺️

[Phaezek]

In the UK we just call this an egg custard tart. The only difference is that we sprinkle nutmeg on top before baking.

[cecilelebleu]

This is so weird! I live in a tropical country, so having access to butter and eggs but not fruits is really strange. It's really interesting how foods in scarcity are so different in different places.
At times when my money management and income were really inconsistent and I had not a dime, I could rarely afford eggs and even less butter, but I could usually afford fruits and sugar and some flour. I would put a fruit in the oven with some sugar on top (bananas, apples, oranges, plantains, pineapple, whatever). I would also make some of the most basic crepes ever, which are actually not too bad: You take an empty bottle, add equal amounts of flour and water, add some sugar or salt or whatever you have on hand, maybe cinnamon, shake the bottle and make the crepes on a hot pan with a little bit of oil or pam or butter or anything. Then, I placed the baked fruit in the crepe, and there's dessert.

[jillianwatts]

Am I the only one who busted out laughing when she started banging on that butter 😂her facial expression killed me

[johexxkitten]

My Mamar (Maternal Grandmother) used to make "Rabbit Pie" her mother used to make it during WWII, It was a recipe the family loved.

I'll ask around the family to see whether anyone still has her cookbooks. Mamar had Notebooks Full of her family handed down recipes. These books were promised to me, but I never saw them again after she passed away.

Despite its name, this pie contained no rabbit, or meat. It was made using vegetable peelings. Just about every peel except onion could be used, but those were boiled to make a dye/stain. It could be used for fabric and clothing, or it could be used to dye hair or it was used as a "tan" that made it look like they were wearing stockings.

The main veg and most popular were potato an carrot (hence the rabbit) peels.

My family were very lucky, we had a homestead/farm. So we had our own fruit trees and grandad could grow anything. He was so beyond a green thumb, he was green through n through.

We we always had plenty fruits & veggies, we had chickens so we always had eggs and from time to time we would have one "for the pot" or we actually would eat the wild rabbits grandad had caught trying to eat our veggies.

Later I remember us even having a couple of goats, pigs, cows and 4 sheep, we even had our own bees. So every year during the days of rationing my grandmother made jam using the berries that were abundant on our land... My grandparents gave them every year as Christmas gifts.

I really hope one of my aunt's has her books. If we locate them, I'll send you some of the recipes to try. These will all be English Recipes.

Grandad would harvest everything when ready, and Mamar preserved what she could. If she couldn't we kept what we could eat, the rest grandad went around the village with.

Many years later, he was in his 80s and I'd come home from work to find a bag hooked over my door handle, it would be a bag full of fruit n veg. I missed that so much when he passed.

[TheWidgetWizard]

Bless you for sharing that pie crust method. This boy has been roughing it making his great grandmas crust by hand, and let me say it is great but too much effort for 2018.