30 Depression-Era Mountain Meals That Fed 10 People for Under a Dollar (No One Makes Them Anymore)

🔗 The Mountain Kitchen Guide — 47 Depression-Era Recipes With Full Instructions: [link] Every one of the techniques in this video in written form, with measurements and step-by-step detail. Most people make back the cost on the first week's groceries. For thirty-one years I stood at my grandmother's elbow in an eastern Kentucky kitchen. She fed a family of nine on what the garden, the smokehouse, and the back of the root cellar had to offer — and she did it every single day without a recipe card or a complaint. Here are 30 of the meals she made when money was nearly gone: water gravy biscuits, leather britches beans, Depression-era stack cake, chestnut soup, dried bean and tomato soup, and 25 more. Some of these fed ten people for under nine cents. Number twelve kept a family alive through the worst winter Harlan County saw in fifty years.