In honor of the continued Wall Street dump

[Warpy]

Depression Coffee:

Soak one pound of dry chickpeas. use your fingers to pop them in half.

Roast in oven set at 275 until they're the darkness you associate with coffee.

Grind and use as regular coffee. You can add a ground up No Doz tablet for that morning kick in the pants and chicory for that southern flavor.

Dinner Cakes:

Mix 1/2 cup flour, 1 cup cornmeal and 1 tsp baking powder and powdered egg to make one egg. Add liquid of choice, milk if you've got it, with a tablespoon of oil. Fold in chopped veggies du jour (broccoli and onion is a fave, as is pepper and scallion) and cook like regular pancakes. You can eat 'em naked or with a topping of choice. Sour cream with chipotle is nice but pricey.

Garbage Soup:

Wash and peel veggies as always, but keep the peels in a container in the fridge. When you've got a quart or so, throw them in water and cook for an hour or two. Strain the resulting broth and use as a soup base.

[supernova]

1. LOL. Depression-era recipes

are sure fun to read. Thanks for posting.

At least collards and turnip greens are still cheap. :rofl:

[housewolf]

2. Now....

This is truly depressing, Warpy!

:hi:

[Tab]

3. Perhaps you should post a recipe for Crow

Not that you'll see the Republicans ever eat it.

[wildflower]

4. The chick peas one is interesting

I have often thought after making popcorn that the burnt kernels smell kind of like coffee. I thought I must be crazy, but now I wonder.

[Warpy]

5. I used to make it for my ex

who didn't like how wired he felt after drinking even decaf coffee but wanted that taste in the morning.

I tried all the health food subs but he liked the Depression Coffee the best.

[wildflower]

6. Interesting

I'll have to try it sometime. What do you think of the burnt popcorn thing? Am I nuts?

[Warpy]

7. No, there are sugars that burn

in the popcorn. However, I put the smell of burned popcorn on a par with burned hair, not nice at all.

The smell of roasting chickpeas is very nice.

[The empressof all]

8. We were chatting here about what to do if it gets really bad

We've been talking about getting a shot gun and popping off the wild rabbits that run rampant through our little woods if things get really really desperate. Can wild Rabbits be rabid? How do you tell if you kill a rabid rabbit.

[Warpy]

10. You do a frozen section of brain tissue

and look for black bodies under your high powered microscope.

Just butcher the bunnies with gloves on and make sure you cook them thoroughly. However, I'd suggest a .22 rather than a shotgun. Not only does it preserve the skins, it also allows you to avoid biting down on pellets and cracking a tooth.

Cracking your teeth is not recommended in a Depression. You can't afford to get them fixed and I doubt a dentist will accept bloody bunny parts full of shotgun pellets.

[The empressof all]

11. Rifle it is then

I know nothing about these here gun thingies. Guess, I may need to think about learning. Oy..

[Juneboarder]

9. My Favorite..

Fried Bologna Sandwiches!! Yummm...

Bologna Cut Up
Olive Oil
Pasta Sauce
White Bread

Saute Bologna in oil until nice and cooked and then add the past sauce. Serve over white bread. Definitely fat free!

[eleny]

12. My aunt said that they never ate a piece of meat that wasn't boiled for soup first

That was during the Depression. Grandma knew how to get the most out of the least.

[murphymom]

13. "Musical fruit"

Been cooking a lot more beans lately. That's my husband's comfort food - he grew up with beans and his mom's homemade flour tortillas as a staple. Cheap and nutritious. If I could only get flour tortillas down - mine come out tough and shaped like Australia. I've never even attempted corn tortillas.

I've found the trick with dried beans when you're working all day is to think ahead a couple of meals (unless you like eating dinner at midnight). I either cook a big pot of beans on the weekend, or cook them on the back burner on an evening when I've planned something else for dinner and they can just go until they're done. I also discovered that cooked beans freeze just fine.

[Warpy]

14. Corn tortillas are easy enough

You need a tortilla press and a couple of pieces of plastic bread bag. Just put a walnut sized hunk of masa on one piece of plastic on the press, top with the other, and squash the press down. Remove, peel one side of plastic off, and then the other. Plop into a hot dry skillet to bake and it's done.

Flour tortillas are a little trickier. You do need a certain amount of oil in them and you do need to let the dough rest. We can get special flour here that's a little lower in gluten than all purpose, but if you let it rest, it shouldn't be as big a problem. Just roll 'em out and bake in a hot, dry skillet.