What were some food delicacies during the Great Depression?

Answer 1

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DEPRESSION CAKE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_cake

Answer 2

My father grew up during the Great Depression. His parents owned a small farm where they kept a couple of cows and some chickens and raised enough produce to can food for the winter for the entire extended family. Grandpa also had a paying job in town.

One of the stories that my Dad has always told about growing up during the Depression is having to eat homemade cake his mother had made for his birthday instead of a "bought cake" from the bakery. She would put the layers together with her homemade raspberry jelly and then frost the entire cake with whipped cream from their own cows an inch or so thick. Poor Dad thought he was SO deprived because he did not get sugar icing on his cakes!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

anytime you had meat...it was a delicacy...my grandmother would buy a 25lb bag of flour and a 25 lb bag of beans and that was the months food.....biscuit bread..which is basically biscuit dough thrown onto a pan and cooked instead of using a cutter...then she'd make a big pan of gravy..gravy being flour...butter...and then water salt and pepper...mmm...then for dinner and supper..beans and biscuit bread...day after day...sometimes she'd buy a can of meat and stretch it through out the month..then she'd boil the can in water to make a little broth from the crumbs....anyway...anything was considered a delicacy:-)

Answer 5

True story. Before the depression, the 3 basic flavors of ice cream were chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla. Now Edy and Bryers used to be partners. They since have split up. But while they were still partners, Edy invented an ice cream that became ice cream's 4th basic flavor offered. He named it after the times: Rocky Road. True story. All the other basic flavors like cherry and lemon and all that came after.

Answer 6

Brownies. Well, I don't know if they were considered a delicacy, but they were created around that time as a way to create a cheap cake.

I believe chocolate chip cookies came out around that same as well - or was that 40s?

Answer 7

My mother, born in 1919 always said it was bananas. We always had them in the house because they were so rare during the depression and probably just introduced into the geographical area where we lived; near the Canadian border.

Answer 8

Mock apple pie made with ritz crackers

lots of beans and cornbread

Answer 9

great answer Mistress of Spices!!

Answer 10

anything with potatoes