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# Depression Era Recipes

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Depression Era Recipes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cookbook Review:  Depression Era Recipes (Kindle Edition)
*by P***A on August 18, 2025*

This cookbook contains a useful Table of Contents. Almost all recipes have a complete list of ingredients and respective amounts and complete directions. I appreciate the author sharing her family recipes from the Depression Era with us.I grew up in a family of 12 children, on 465 acres in Upstate, NY. We had a huge garden and wide selection of farm animals: cows, pigs, chickens, rabbits, ducks, geese, sheep and a goat. We were reminded that they were our food, not pets. Without warning, any of them could be our next meal.The men tended the farm animals, the hunting and fishing. The women tended the cooking, cleaning and taking care of the men and children. Our home was always bustling with activity (mostly work, but when it is all you know, work is play, and together time that builds memories).Our mother often spoke of the depression and the need to be able to live off the land (farm, garden, fish, hunt, gather fruits and berries) and we very much did, and we ate like royalty, maybe better. She wrote her recipes in a leather-look recipe memory book. Recipes she had clipped from resources at the time, she also pasted to those pages.My earliest memories are of the aroma of delicious meals almost ready to be served and the clatter of pots and pans in the kitchen. Our mother was a professional cook in her working days. She cooked for our family like she was cooking for a fine restaurant and on holidays it truly was a feast of everything imaginable.This cookbook details several of the things we ate (that our mother cooked) that I would not cook or eat now. We often did not know what we were eating. Our mother made everything delicious. We only knew it tasted good. That was her and the era she was raised in. I have no intention of ever cooking or cleaning rabbit, squirrel, venison or even a duck or goose. Not likely I could or would be willing and able to filet fish to be cooked.When our mother spoke of the Depression, she spoke of not having enough food to eat and existing on bread and water or bread and milk some days. It was very important to her that her children never be in a situation where they did not have enough to eat and important that what they did east was not just nutritious but also delicious.I lost both my parents in 1981. Our mother bound the family together. With her loss, the property was sold, her things put in storage and never again did we all sit down together to eat as a family.Every one of her children wanted her cookbook. After her passing, it went missing and has not been seen since. I was provided copies of recipes of one of the local cookbooks of her day to which she had contributed a few recipes. The recipes in it were very typical of recipes she would make, as are the recipes in this cookbook.It is true some of the ingredients used in recipes in this cookbooks and others of that time are no longer readily available. The author simply provided the recipes of the time that were provided to her as they were written. It is not difficult to replace what is no longer available with what is and, with the substitution, you may create a recipe just as delicious and healthier.The frugality of the depression era wasn't eating cheap, it was survival. It was eating what was readily available even if that meant you had to plant it, can it, fish for it, hunt for it or gather it. Not many seem to want to do any of that today unless it can be done at the local supermarket. The nearest supermarket from our home was a 45-minute drive away. Shopping was only done once a month. It was important to always have staples on hand and to be able to make delicious meals with what you had available. Recipes often were a base to be built upon. The pie recipe would be filled with whatever fruit or berry was in season. We had apples, plums, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries and elderberries. If you wanted a snack you helped yourself to the fruits and berries growing on our property or to what was growing in the garden. If you wanted a pie, you picked the fruit and brought it back. My happiest memories with my mother were cooking together in the kitchen. To me, this cookbook is a book of memories. In the pages of this cookbook and others I have of the same era, I search for and find recipes from my childhood to make, to cherish and to remember.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I like it
*by K***R on July 30, 2025*

Very interesting book with some history and recipes. I like it

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good for a survival collection!
*by M***O on September 19, 2024*

Back to basics type recipes. It even has different wines and drinks! Easy to read, well organized and includes charts in back for different temperature references. Vintage articles added for some fun, and has a few pages blank for your own personal “notes”. Can’t complain about the reasonable price as well! I will probably pick up another copy or two as gifts for Christmas! (:

## Frequently Bought Together

- Depression Era Recipes
- Cooking Through Hard Times: Depression-Era Classics
- Hard Times Cookbook with Back to Basics Great Depression Cooking

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