Posted: 3/5/2009 11:06:47 AM EDT
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Depression Cooking with Clara
Check out her recipes and stories. Good stuff! |
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What do you want to bet the potato skins were saved for a different dish?
My hot kitchen tip of the day, invest in a pressure cooker. It takes less energy, less time and will tenderize just about anything. Beans can be cooked in minutes instead of hours. Chili, pot roast, soups, you name it. |
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Why is she wasting the skins on the potatoes? How could anyone afford Olive oil during hard times? That doesn't sound like depression cooking to me but what I do I know, I'm only 29. My guess is that Clara has substituted olive oil for whatever they used as fat when she was young. |
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What do you want to bet the potato skins were saved for a different dish? My hot kitchen tip of the day, invest in a pressure cooker. It takes less energy, less time and will tenderize just about anything. Beans can be cooked in minutes instead of hours. Chili, pot roast, soups, you name it. That's a good point. It takes a lot less energy to cook the same meal and when firewood, gas for the genny, or propane are in short supply every energy unit counts. |
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I could use the exact same ingredients and spend the exact same amount of money and make something that looked a lot less gross.
I bet her stories are really good. I used to video an older lady we called Miss Toby about growing up in the Appalachians. It didn't matter what the decade was, they were poor all the time. |
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What do you want to bet the potato skins were saved for a different dish? My hot kitchen tip of the day, invest in a pressure cooker. It takes less energy, less time and will tenderize just about anything. Beans can be cooked in minutes instead of hours. Chili, pot roast, soups, you name it. What is a good brand of pressure cooker? |
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What do you want to bet the potato skins were saved for a different dish? My hot kitchen tip of the day, invest in a pressure cooker. It takes less energy, less time and will tenderize just about anything. Beans can be cooked in minutes instead of hours. Chili, pot roast, soups, you name it. What is a good brand of pressure cooker? Doubles as an autoclave for SHTF surgery. |
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I could use the exact same ingredients and spend the exact same amount of money and make something that looked a lot less gross. I bet her stories are really good. I used to video an older lady we called Miss Toby about growing up in the Appalachians. It didn't matter what the decade was, they were poor all the time. Was that part of the Foxfire series? Good info there. My dad and Grandparents were from Eastern KY. |
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What do you want to bet the potato skins were saved for a different dish? My hot kitchen tip of the day, invest in a pressure cooker. It takes less energy, less time and will tenderize just about anything. Beans can be cooked in minutes instead of hours. Chili, pot roast, soups, you name it. What is a good brand of pressure cooker? All american is good, it uses a metal to metal seal instead of a rubber gasket. But rubber gaskets are cheap and last a long time. Make sure it has both a jiggler and a gauge for ease of use. I have an all american and also an old national #7 that I retrofitted with all american jiggler and gauge. I also got a new gasket plus a spare. It works great. A lot of the canners on the homesteading forum I go to use whatever it is they sale at walmart. |