25 Depression Meals Appalachian Grandmas Made for ONE From Nothing

📖 Want to make these the way Grandma did, without the guesswork? My cookbook has 100 recipes we've been cooking together on this channel, each one measured out, with a "Why didn't it turn out?" fix list so your biscuits, beans and gravy come out right the first time. $17.99, instant download. 👉 Get it here: https://lulamaggard.com/ If you've been watching from the kitchen table, honey, this is the book I wish Mama had written down. Every recipe you own was written for a table of six. So when it's just you, you eat the same pot four nights running, or half of it goes to the dog. Here are twenty-five suppers mountain women made out of next to nothing to get through the hard years, every one cut down to one plate, with the measure for one. I'm Lula Maggard. A good part of this list came from Mama's Aunt Verlie, who lived alone at the top of our holler and cooked for one her whole life. "Anybody can stretch food for a crowd," she used to say, "but it takes a cook to make one plate come out right." In this video: • How to use half an egg (and what to do with the other half) • Rivel soup, tomato dumplings and noodles from one egg, all sized for one • Poor man's steak from a quarter pound of ground beef • Cherokee bean bread, boiled in corn husks the old way • The coal miner's dinner bucket, and why a miner never ate every bite • The soup-bone stew the old folks kept on the stove for days, and the safe way to keep it • A potato baked bare with an egg cooked right down inside it • Number one, which isn't a recipe at all: Verlie's chipped teacup 📖 LIKE MAMA MADE IT: a hundred of the old mountain dishes with the cups and spoons written out, and a smaller batch for one or two on every one. Link is pinned in the top comment: [BOOK LINK] Chapters 0:00 The half-egg trick for cooking for one 0:27 25 suppers, each cut down to one plate 1:05 The potato baking in my oven right now 1:52 #25 Rivel soup 3:17 #24 Whole onion baked in its skin 4:06 #23 Creamed dried beef on toast 4:54 #22 Tomato dumplings 5:40 #21 Corn chowder with salt pork 6:46 #20 Poor man's steak 7:34 #19 Fried parsnips 8:39 #18 Noodles from one egg 9:31 #17 Smearcase 10:22 #16 Brains and eggs 11:13 #15 Mountain succotash with shelly beans 12:12 #14 Haluski 13:01 #13 Frog legs 13:48 #12 Cherokee bean bread 15:07 #11 Soup-bone stew (and the safe way to keep it) 16:06 #10 One apple dumpling 16:57 #9 Gizzards and hearts in gravy 18:00 #8 The coal miner's dinner bucket 18:58 #7 Salsify, the oyster plant 19:47 #6 Brown gravy over rice 20:41 #5 Fried pumpkin 21:27 #4 Corn pudding baked in a bowl 22:15 #3 Beans and macaroni from the coal camps 23:07 #2 The egg in the potato 24:11 #1 Aunt Verlie's teacup 25:16 Cook one supper just for you 💬 Tell me about the woman who did the cooking when you were small: her name, the one supper of hers you'd give near anything to sit down to again, and one thing you remember about her at the stove. I read every one, and the supper that comes up the most is the one I'll cook next. And tell me what town you're watching from. If this old woman earned it, tap Subscribe and I'll keep pulling up a chair for you. ⚠️ A few safety words: canned brains carry a great deal of cholesterol, so ask your doctor before #16. For #11, never leave a stew pot sitting out overnight. Get leftovers in the icebox within two hours, in small shallow bowls. For #2, bake the egg until the white is set and the yolk is firm. And if you gig your own frog legs, check your state's license and season first. #appalachiancooking #depressionerarecipes #cookingforone #poormanmeals #grandmarecipes #oldfashionedcooking #frugalliving