dsi1 wrote:
> On Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 12:20:42 PM UTC-10, cshenk wrote:
> > dsi1 wrote:
> >
> > > On Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 9:02:59 AM UTC-10, Michael Trew
> > > wrote:
> > > > I like to make depression era recipes regularly. They are
> > > > typically light, yet filling, and my favorite - cheap! I've
> > > > been meaning to try water pie for some time now. Has anyone
> > > > heard of it or baked it?
> > > >
> > > > https://www.southernplate.com/water-...m-the-great-de
> > > > pres sion/
> > > >
> > > > Speaking of cheap, dandelions are in full force right about
> > > > now... my back yard is yellow. Some might think it a nuisance,
> > > > but the leaves look like a good salad to me!
> > >
> > > Don't forget to make mock apple pie. I've made it and found it
> > > was absolutely horrible! It's the most famous and most depressing
> > > of the depression era recipes. It actually makes you want to kill
> > > yourself. Everybody makes it with Ritz crackers but soda
> > > crackers might be slightly less sad and definitely less salty.
> > > How dumb do you have to be to mistake this for an apple pie?
> > > Really, really, dumb.
> > >
> > > https://copykat.com/mock-apple-pie/
> > Reviews are actually good for it. I'll have to hunt but there is a
> > real recipe from the depression that used applesauce and another
> > that used stewed apple preserves.
>
> Mock apple pie with apple in it seems like cheating. You're right
> that the crazy kids seem to like it. Those poor kids!
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4554EYfRLiA
But they might have much of that preserved for uses when outside of
apple season.
I get the impression from perusing old depression era recipes that
having 2 or more apple trees in the yard (plus other fruit trees
suitable to the area) was fairly common.
A lot of the 'recipes' are also for preserving fruits in season then
followed by recipes to use them through the year.
Full of funny phrases too like 'beat the egg whites until they submit
to the Lord and make nice peaks' (sounds faintly blasphemous now but
must not have been percieved so at that time as it's in a church
cookbook).