The Homestead Cookbook love this book as it has great things from around the great depression and can still find it online for sale get a copy if you can
I love old fashion recipes. The older the recipe the less ingredients. People cooked with everyday, what is in your cupboard stuff. A pet peeve of mine is having to run to the store and buy a spice or something to complete a dish. Seems wasteful to me. Depression era recipes are hearty, made with basics. Thanks @marlas1too
I still have one recipe that my grandmother gave me from the depression. I think it dates back to the Irish Great Famine, probably before. It is how to make chocolate cake without eggs or expensive ingredients. We were really poor so it got used a lot.
I usually make cornbread, pancakes and waffles without eggs. I'll share my secret. It's flaxseed meal. 1 tablespoon of it in 3 tablespoons of water for each egg you are replacing. Mix it well, and let it sit 3 minutes before you add it into your mixture.
I have, what must be, a similar recipe, carried across the Oregon Trail by an ancestor. It's really delicious, super moist. The only thing we've (my grandmother) done to modernize it is to add walnuts, hence our name for it, Crazy Cake!
Monkey has a recipe section. a subforum of "back to basics". Please post your crazy cake recipe. Please.
Mom gave me one when I headed off to college. She was afraid I would starve to death because she hadn't thought me to cook.
This is another good one. They are available at used book stores, yard sales and a download here. They are updated yearly I have hard copies from the 40's, 50's & 60's. Cooking & Food - BALL. BLUE BOOK of CANNING and. PRESERVING RECIPES | Survival Monkey Forums
http://www.agriculture.wv.gov/divisions/comm/Documents/Publications Print/Cast Iron Cookbook 2 WEB.pdf http://www2.isu.edu/outdoor/pdf/2012_cookbook.pdf http://www.campchef.com/media/manuals/CastIronRecipeBook.pdf http://wilderness.org/sites/default/files/Campfire_Cookbook.pdf all free pdf's
@Gray Wolf thank you for the flax meal how to. I love substitutes. I use them often and find that the recipe is sometimes better. My Mom has the same cook book. I used it often when I was growing up.
General CookBooks Index of /Cookbooks http://cpliz.com/books/CookBooks/GeneralCookbooks/Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook.pdf 2014 60's Cook Book Better Homes and Gardens 1963 and more
150 Wartime Recipes World War 2 History cookbook - Cookit! The Brits had to learn how to cook with almost nothing.. Between rationing and shortages, cooking became quite the effort...
I love these!!! Creative cooks are the best! THey take limited raw goods and make amazing meals thanks guys for posting these!
There are, quite literately, dozens and dozens of WWII "cooking with rationing" cook books out there along with raft loads of specific recipes. How to Bake By the Ration Book ( mentalfloss.com/.../11-awesome-pages-world-war-ii-ration-cookbooks ) The Wartime Kitchen: Living of Rations with Ration Book Cooking .. Eating for Victory: original Second World War ration recipes British Wartime Food: How Britain Fed Itself During World War Two It's hard for youngsters in the US today to even imagine just how desperate those times were for the average Brit. In 1940, in order to make sure that everyone had enough to eat, the Government introduced food rationing. The average adult’s weekly allowance included 4oz of bacon or ham, 2oz of cheese, one egg, 3 pints of milk, 2oz of tea, 8oz of sugar, 4oz of margarine. However, by June 1941, the ration had been almost halved. Householders were also urged to salvage everything, from paper, rags, metal, rubber – and bones, which were washed before you put them out, tied in bundles. The inclusion of bones on the above list may seem surprising, even to the most ardent of modern recyclers, but they were boiled down to make glue, which was used in aircraft manufacture, or ground up for use as fertiliser, or made into glycerine for high explosive for shells and bombs. It was claimed that a single chop bone weighing 2oz could supply the explosive charge for two rounds of ammunition for RAF Hurricane fighter guns. Source (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1252240/The-food-won-war-The-weird-wonderful-ration-book-dishes-helped-Britain-victory.html#ixzz4NAp50KvE)