Here's What People Ate To Survive During The Dust Bowl!

Here's What People Ate To Survive During The Dust Bowl!

#dustbowl #forgotten #food

The Dust Bowl era was one of America's toughest times, but people still had to keep their tummies full. Here are 20 foods that kept folks going through this challenging period, and you’ll be surprised to see how creative people got with their meals!

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:15 Canned Tumbleweed Leaves
0:58 Popcorn With Milk
1:50 Beef and Gelatin
2:48 Carrot Marmalade
3:36 Dandelion Salad
4:35 Cornbread
5:08 Casseroles
6:11 Egg-Free, Milk-Free, And Butter-Free Cake
6:56 Jackrabbit
7:42 White Sauce
8:41 Bacon Grease
9:36 Pickled Fruits
10:18 Cornmeal Mush
11:05 Hard-Boiled Eggs
11:53 Bean Soup
12:50 Hoover Stew
13:35 Beans and Ham Hocks
14:22 Milk-Toast
15:11 Turnip Greens
15:57 Mulligan Stew
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[PellyjellyMom]

My Mother and her Mother and Brothers moved to California from Oklahoma. We ate all the Dust Bowl meals and still do. I still like leftover corn bread (no sugar) crumbled with sweet milk. Nothing beats a bowl of pinto beans cooked with bacon and a little raw onion on top. Corn bread on the side. If we all went back to this kind of eating we would all have more money and be better off without the fast and processed foods.

[joaopedrobaggio]

A good thing about hard times is that they make people more creative.

[geoburrlacy]

I was born in the early 50s, and my parents and grandparents were all from the depression error. So they just cooked country, depression, air type food all the time, so I grew up on that. It is had a big impact on my life, and to me, those are my comfort foods. A lot of them are. the cornbread, Mulligan stew, bean soups, and more. Happy memories for me when I eat those things come from a family of eight kids that was good eating.

[KeithH-zcjt]

Love these videos. My grandmother fixed some of these meals routinely even in her later years. She died at age 87 from covid. She led an incredible life.

[cynthialindsley]

Milk toast is still a favorite of many in my family. I never cared for it but it is still a big deal in the family no matter your age!

[epowell]

Some of these just seem unusual because we Americans are spoiled to having such a large variety of foods available. I think I heard that Dandelion greens are a normal green in Italy. My great grandpa taught me to pick them: only the new leaves, small and tender. I've recently tried radish and beet greens - always see radishes and beets sold with their tops on, so wondered if I could eat them, they were fine - but I can't believe it didn't occur to me to buy turnips this way and eat the greens, since I frequently buy them canned lol.

Bacon grease adds so much flavor, I'm surprised it's only been sold in stores recently. Like, Crisco should have made a bacon flavor 50 years ago lol. Best popcorn ever is made on the stove: dice bacon, cook until translucent, add the popcorn kernels, and voila - delicious bacon flavored popcorn with crunchy bacon bits! Sausage grease is good too, but never left the sausage in the pot.

[ahoorakia]

2:16 any body noticed the beef prices on there?
BEFF BRISKET 8 cent per pound
SPARE RIBS 8 cent
PORK TENDERLOIN 50 cent

[Fearlessdove]

I always live seeing these meals. So interesting.

[ImaPseudonym-gooy]

"Have you ever thought about combining beef and gelatin?"

No, because I'm not completely insane.

[evedanthe]

In Europe, dendelion (dent-de-lion) salad is still famous and we happily eat it in Spring, when it can be picked in the gardens. It is full of health benefits, purifying, detoxifying, antioxidant thanks to its bitterness. Serve it with hard-boiled eggs and grilled bacon and a good vinaigrette. ;-)

[kittyelf]

My mother still fed us milk toast when we didn’t feel well, cause Grandma fed her and my aunt and uncle milk toast. We’re also big fans of bean soup. My nieces and now great nieces and nephews, not so much.

[ruthreynolds]

We still using these depression recipes. With high food prices, we have resorted to these to have money for other expenses.

[CK-vsmh]

My grandmas grew up Great Depression, saved every food scrap, fridge looked rather empty but she’d make the best meals……me-I buy a lot of groceries and hmmm…nothing to eat…I’m learning, big on dump soups now

[wandamontgomery]

Wait....didn't he say butter and milk were hard yo come by?😮 if people made white sauce they must've had it.

I save bacon grease for frying potatoes and eggs or to flavor beans.

[TooLooze]

I still make most of that pretty often.

[DennisNowland]

Dandelions are so bitter that they are inedible. In the UK, we called them wet bed because they act as a diuretic.

[berthalloway]

My grandma was raising 8 kids and made milk marmalade

[karenschunk]

I forage all the time. If one lives by a forest, there are plenty of roots, greens, fruits, and herbs. Many mushrooms too, but I do not touch them. Too risky.

[BR]

We save bacon grease daily we save farm fresh beef fat also

[Lumiessaplush]

This video pairs well with the American Girl Kit unit study