During the Depression, scarce resources and frugal mindsets forced home cooks to get creative during the holidays, but the recipes they devised out of necessity deserve a second look in times of ...

Why Make Depression-Era Recipes? If you have parents or grandparents who grew up in that era, you no doubt have heard stories about the ways people got creative to get by. Throughout this period, a ...

A homemade pie cooling in a window with a glass jar of milk and a cat - Tom Kelley/Getty Images When the stock market crashed in 1929, the United States entered the Great Depression. For a decade, ...

The Great Depression led to the creation and popularization of some unique desserts, including this pie that used an unusual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looking for ways to save money in the kitchen without sacrificing flavor? In this video, Nicole makes 10 Great Depression–era ...

Volunteers donate meals from their own tables. Or, like the volunteers we caught up with at St. Jerome's Church in Northeast Philadelphia, they cook in church or synagogue kitchens. As the economy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is a wacky cake and why does it have such a, well, wacky name? Before veganism was a thing, people made vegan cakes by ...

I’ve eaten lamb maybe once before. Maybe. I don't recall disliking it, not at all. That said, it seems like my taste in meats — chicken, beef and pork — are pretty much in line with the vast majority ...

"I was a young girl in the late '20s when my mom made this recipe, but it was called Eggless, Milkless, Butterless Cake." So writes Loretta DeWitte of Bettendorf in response to a cake recipe printed ...