Great Depression Meals

lanapoo said:
My family is half Irish so we make that corned beef meal every year on St Paddy's Day and we use Horseradish mustard with it.
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Thanks! I was not sure if we did use brown mustard . We had this more than once a year . My dad loved the meal. He loved boiled potatoes , he ate a lot growing up.
 
lanapoo said:
My family is half Irish so we make that corned beef meal every year on St Paddy's Day and we use Horseradish mustard with it.
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I'm wondering how much you really like this meal....
 
MyNameIsNO said:
dandelion wine? :hmm: you try before? it sound interest and i want know what taste like.
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No I never had dandelion wine before . I have home made apricot wine before when I lived in Northern Calf. We had place a called 'Whiskey Hill' and people would made all kind of wines and sell it.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
My famliy liked it a lot! It it a very filling meal with black bread and I real black bread not the kind you buy in a grocery store!
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:lol:I was asking Lanapoo as she appears to have this meal just once a year. :lol:
 
Tousi said:
:lol:I was asking Lanapoo as she appears to have this meal just once a year. :lol:
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We have corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and carrots with horseradish at least 4-8 times a year. Family really likes it. Daughter does not eat the cabbage and neither kid really likes the potatoes, but I require that the potatoes and carrots are eaten. No more than one serving spoon full.
 
KristinaB said:
We have corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and carrots with horseradish at least 4-8 times a year. Family really likes it. Daughter does not eat the cabbage and neither kid really likes the potatoes, but I require that the potatoes and carrots are eaten. No more than one serving spoon full.
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There we go; that's more like it! :lol: However, I can't say I like corned beef.
 
Tousi said:
I'm wondering how much you really like this meal....
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Love it actually. I cook it once in a while for myself... Maybe 3 or 4 times a year. Corned beef is pretty expensive! Also makes for a good sandwich if you have leftovers. Rye bread, dijon or horseradish mustard, and corned beef... Orgasmic lunch.
 
lanapoo said:
Love it actually. I cook it once in a while for myself... Maybe 3 or 4 times a year. Corned beef is pretty expensive! Also makes for a good sandwich if you have leftovers.
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When Aldi's has the Corned beef on sale and since we eat it so often, I will get 204 of them at the same time and put into my deep freeze. I can get them sometimes for $0.99 a pound that way. We found that a 3-3 1/2 pound piece will feed the five of us. My kids can never get enough corned beef.
 
lanapoo said:
I do that occasionally for breakfast, but I add cinnamon to it, too. Makes it even better!
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OMG..t.his just brought back forgotten memories of my mom doing the same with bread/butter and cinnamon. I totally forgot all about it. I should make some for my son.
 
I am amazed that two Aders have parents who were born in the late 19th or early 20th centuries. It seems like such a different world, those times.

I used to eat bread covered with gravy......I could live on that. Lol
 
shel90 said:
OMG..t.his just brought back forgotten memories of my mom doing the same with bread/butter and cinnamon. I totally forgot all about it. I should make some for my son.
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I guess butter, sugar & cinnammon was a popular combo in the early 1900s. My mom would occassionally boil some egg noodles and add in that combo when I was a kid and tell us that her mother had made it frequently. She added in some raisins also though. Oh my gosh! I still remember the sugar rush.

My mom was born in 1928, so she grew up during the Great Depression. Her dad was a grocer though, so they probably didn't have it too bad.
 
lanapoo said:
Love it actually. I cook it once in a while for myself... Maybe 3 or 4 times a year. Corned beef is pretty expensive! Also makes for a good sandwich if you have leftovers. Rye bread, dijon or horseradish mustard, and corned beef... Orgasmic lunch.
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It is really hard to find good a rye bread today! I will ask for black rye when I order a sandwich and a lot of restaurants do not have it! I would rather have a slice a of good black rye bread with homemade borsch with sour cream
than than chocolate cake!
 
Tousi said:
:lol:I was asking Lanapoo as she appears to have this meal just once a year. :lol:
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Some people like to have a New England boiled dinner only on St Patrick Day ,it the same as people having turkey only on Thanksgiving . Or ham only on Easter. It does not means that they do not like it , it's a special meal to look forward to.
 
shel90 said:
I am amazed that two Aders have parents who were born in the late 19th or early 20th centuries. It seems like such a different world, those times.

I used to eat bread covered with gravy......I could live on that. Lol
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And here is another one! My dad was born in 1902 and my mom in 1904; both are deceased. And we kinda skipped a generation compared to most as on my mother's side my grandmother was 38 (or very close; I would have to look it up to be sure) when she had mom and my mom was exactly 2 months shy of 38 when she had me. Some of my classmates grandparents had been in school with my mom!
 
lanapoo said:
Love it actually. I cook it once in a while for myself... Maybe 3 or 4 times a year. Corned beef is pretty expensive! Also makes for a good sandwich if you have leftovers. Rye bread, dijon or horseradish mustard, and corned beef... Orgasmic lunch.
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I like corned beef on rye rueben sandwiches with mustard. :drool:
 
shel90 said:
OMG..t.his just brought back forgotten memories of my mom doing the same with bread/butter and cinnamon. I totally forgot all about it. I should make some for my son.
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We used to sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on our bread and toast, too. My mom filled a shaker with cinnamon and sugar mixed so we kids could use it ourselves.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
Some people like to have a New England boiled dinner only on St Patrick Day ,it the same as people having turkey only on Thanksgiving . Or ham only on Easter. It does not means that they do not like it , it's a special meal to look forward to.
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I don't remember having New England boiled dinner on St. Patrick's Day. Our family didn't celebrate that day, so we just had the meal whenever it was convenient for the family.
 
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