Loaf of peanut butter bread with chocolate chips - Photos By T/Shutterstock In times of need, human ingenuity often shines. One great example of this is in Depression-era recipes like Hoover stew; ...

My mom was a really good cook, and we looked forward to everything she made. She went to college back when women took home economics classes—they weren’t kidding about the economics part. Budgeting ...

Rising food costs and economic uncertainty have Americans reaching into their grandparents' recipe boxes. S.Labor ...

Welcome back to Sunday Morning and the Old Cookbook Show! Today, we're baking a 1930s Raisin Brown Bread from Golden Jubilee ...

Discover the calcium loaf, a Depression-era recipe using eggshells and beans to boost nutrition and promote self-sufficiency ...

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 ...

To say the Great Depression changed the way Americans ate would be an understatement. Home cooks dropped or reduced the use of costly ingredients like meat, dairy, and eggs. Today, while these foods ...

The Great Depression spanned from 1929 to the beginning of World War II in 1939 and was a period of economic instability and severe hardship. But according to Senior Producer Nicole McLaughlin, "it ...