During the Great Depression, tomato soup was substituted into cake recipes, replacing the milk, egg, and butter. This baking ...

The Great Depression (1929-1939) was one of the hardest economic periods in American history. With unemployment reaching 25%, ...

Recipes; Image. Art & Culture; ... A simple soup from the Great Depression. By Mary MacVean. ... we’d sometimes have a meal of a soup made with milk, potatoes, green and yellow beans, a dollop ...

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 ...

1 ½ lbs. of ground beef; ½ c. macaroni, dry; ½ c. onions; ½ c. celery; 3 ½ quarts water; 1 large can of tomatoes; Salt to taste; Brown the ground beef, add the rest of the ingredients except ...

Bean soup is as easy and economical as the 1930s. My grandmother was fond of her "Depression recipes." These were her counter to the terrible era when common foods such as meats, eggs and milks ...

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.

(The soup kitchens were shut down a couple of years later, replaced by city-funded meal tickets to local restaurants.) The U.S. Census reported that, by April, Milwaukee's unemployed totaled 15,916.