Depression Era Cooking.

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Vintage WW1 Eggless, Milkless, Butterless Cake

1 cup water
2 cups raisins
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. cloves
1 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup lard (shortening)
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. salt
2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder

Place water, raisins, cinnamon, cloves, brown sugar, lard (shortening), nutmeg and salt in a saucepan and mix. Place on heat and bring to a boil. Cook 3 minutes. Allow to cool, then sift together the flour, baking soda and baking
powder. Stir into cooked mixture.
Place in a greased loaf pan and bake at 350F for one hour.

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Ritz Mock Apple Pie

The classic pie, featuring Ritz crackers baked in a golden crust, is perfect for the holidays.

Pastry for two-crust 9-inch pie
36 RITZ Crackers, coarsely broken (about 1 3/4 cups crumbs)
1 3/4 cups water
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Grated peel of one lemon
2 tablespoons margarine or butter
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Roll out half the pastry and line a 9-inch pie plate. Place cracker crumbs in prepared crust; set aside.

Heat water, sugar and cream of tartar to a boil in saucepan over high heat; simmer for 15 minutes. Add lemon juice and peel; cool.

Pour syrup over cracker crumbs. Dot with margarine or butter; sprinkle with cinnamon. Roll out remaining pastry; place over pie. Trim, seal and flute edges. Slit top crust to allow steam to escape.

Bake at 425°F for 30 to 35 minutes or until crust is crisp and golden. Cool completely.

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Crazy Cake.
My mom used to make this a olot for us kinds, her mom used to make it for her family.

3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
3/4 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups cold water
Directions
1Sift flour, sugar, salt, soda, and cocoa together into a 9 x 13 inch ungreased cake pan. Make three wells. Pour oil into one well, vinegar into second, and vanilla into third well. Pour cold water over all, and stir well with fork.Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 to 40 minutes, or until tooth pick inserted comes out clean.

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we still make this in our family-
Scalloped Corn
1 can cream corn
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
enough crumbled saltin cracker to make a semi-thick mixture when stirred into the above.
Bake at 350 for about 30 min till nice and puffy

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Looks like a good site too:

http://countrytimerecipes.alphamaids...on_recipes.htm

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Heck - we're already doing some of these now. Keeping it basic means little to no change to adjust to when things go South.

http://jjackson786.hubpages.com/hub/...n-In-Frugality

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Printable menu's and lists:

http://www.homeeverafter.com/printab...ssion-recipes/

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Pepper and onions are good in this, too. That's the way my Mama made this!

THANKS for the recipe for Wacky Cake, Lurker! My Mama made that, too, but the recipe was lost. YEAH! It's found again. :o)

I grabbed all those off of one of the links I posted - I forget which one. Glad you found it though!

Gotta get back, and accustomed to, the basics again so when we're forced to it it's no surprise or big deal.

[Meemur]

Gotta get back, and accustomed to, the basics again so when we're forced to it it's no surprise or big deal.

Yes! That's what I was thinking when I started looking for my older recipes. Sunday pot roast may well become chicken pot pies, with just a taste of chicken in them.

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Yes! That's what I was thinking when I started looking for my older recipes. Sunday pot roast may well become chicken pot pies, with just a taste of chicken in them.

Yup.

Maybe this thread will take off enough to be stickied. We'll see.