I f there's one thing that tomato soup cake proves, it's that come Hades, high water, or even the Great Depression and a ...

Most For Your Money Cookbook, published in 1938, offers two recipes for buttermilk soup. The first involves adding raisins, some nutmeg, sugar, salt, and a lemon peel to a quart of buttermilk ...

The New York Stock Exchange crashed on October 24, 1929, known as Black Thursday. It was the first of many financial calamities that created the most notorious period of economic ...

Porcupine meatballs were a favored budget-stretching staple thanks to a short list of basic ingredients: ground beef; onion; uncooked long-grain rice (which gives the meatballs their trademark ...

I believe our parents' generation and our own have learned something from the generation of Depression survivors. The ... I heard my latest lecture on the GDP. Which, in this case, does not stand for ...

Today, learning how to cook on a budget is becoming important to more families. In the 1930s, making do was a kitchen art, honed by necessity. Sour grass soup, anyone?

Author Laura Shapiro, an authority on the history of American home cooking, calls Depression cooking “fear cuisine,” but there was a way that housewives could offer their families a treat.