This Food is Still Good After 100 Years!| 1920's Recipes and Cooking


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Today we’re cooking like it’s the 20’s. These recipes are over 100 years old and still great. Recipes from 100 years ago are time …

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  1. Shirley Drake
    Shirley Drake says:

    Your little boys are beautiful. I have a few beautiful grandsons, and great grandsons ages, 20 months, four years, six years, nine years, ten years eleven years and fourteen years as well as several granddaughters ranging from seven weeks to thirty two years. I really enjoy watching a mother interacting so gently with their little ones. I thought for sure your little boy was going to steal a bite of your bacon bits! His body language spoke volumes. Thanks for the recipes. These days affordable meals are a must. You can’t beat potatoes for great tasting filling dishes. Thanks again for posting.

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  2. angelcop2
    angelcop2 says:

    I just found your channel yesterday it was in my suggestions and I thought all right I'll give her a try you are actually really funny so I have subscribed to your channel and here I am listening to you again you are very funny I really enjoy your channel keep up the good work you're a sweet sweet woman

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  3. Texas Jan
    Texas Jan says:

    Love German potato salad if you don't have bacon fry a slice or two of ham lunch meat. Always save your bacon grease and everything will taste better cooked in bacon grease.

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  4. Richard Wright
    Richard Wright says:

    Looks delicious. One of my best recipes was handed down by my grandfather from Ohio who was part of a traveling band of clowns which toured the country in the 1920s and 1930s. Not only did he fully participate as a performer (juggling and spraying seltzer mostly) but he was also in charge of the Clown Chuckwagon, and over the years, came up with a nice selection of mostly campfire stews (or "or stewge" as Gramps used to call them),, soups and casseroles. One of my favorites, casseroles, which I still prepare frequently, consists of baked beans and wieners (for the KETO portion of the meal), macaroni and cheese. and a couple handfuls of those big orange circus peanuts – a sweet yet savory bake-up that's a hit with everyone who tries it. Gramps had one clown name for performing with his fellow troupers at carnivals, civic events, etc., throughout the central Midwest ""Antsy Pants" – but around the campfire at breakfast or suppertime, when most of these talented vagabond buffoons had removed their make-up and hung their giant shoes in their campers, (but oddly enough not all of them) Gramps was affectionately known among the boys as "Yummo." He told me how it wasn't unusual for farmers to donate a hen or two and maybe a couple of dozen eggs, in return for a brief barnyard slapstick performance by a couple of the boys for the farmer, his family and his hired hands.. He also told me as soon as he got back to camp with the chickens, the alcoholic Geek who traveled with them would inevitably beg permission to bite the heads of the pullets when Gramps was ready to get those birds cooking. Seemed that this particular Geek actually not only savored the taste of the live chickens he was required to eat (which were usually provided by the promoter of the event at which the troupe was performing) – but craved more when "off=the-clock" Talk about a Carnivore diet!! Wow!!! Reportedly, he was known to comment that "live chicken pairs well with a pint of Carstairs White Seal Blended." By the way, Grandma also traveled with Gramps. She was the seamstress – making a good number of the clown suits from her own design and repairing all them when required. So of course Gram and Gran rolled along from town- to -town with a big foot pump operated sewing machine in their trailer, – in addition to all the pots, pants, cutlery, stirrers, etc. My Dad was born in a campground in Posey County, Indiana, delivered by a local midwife and plopped into a casserole baking dish as soon as Gramps cut the umbilical cord with his second best onion chopping knife. As for me, I married young and did well for myself in doing so. My wife is the daughter of an outdoor parking lot magnate in a major city in Ohio. I was dowried with three downtown lots. I've had a comfortable life pretty much doing whatever I want all day while other people collect money on my behalf while sitting down in booths, watching TV, reading (or even snoozing between customers arriving and honking the horns to wake 'em up). Consequently, for awhile, I was able to open a couple of storefront business which specialized in selling "clown suits for the whole family," including custom made if somebody wanted them – and even clown suits for the family pets. The seamstresses I hired used Gram's patterns, of course. . The stores were called "Hem and Ha!" – and with every sale, I usually threw in a copy of one of Gramps' recipes for a clown casseroles, "silly stew," "buffoon bread, "Punchinello Porridge,," or what have you. Of course, they all pair well with seltzer water

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  5. Mary Snow
    Mary Snow says:

    A twist on chicken salad, swap out the grapes with granny Smith apple small dice, and add sunflower seeds. I like the salted ones from dollar tree. You can use the same onion, celery, etc or even leave it out. When I travel for work, I pack a can of chicken, a small bottle of mayo, sunflower seeds, and a green apple. I pack 2 to 4 slices of bread in a sandwich container. I have 2 quick meals in the hotel room. I don't use all the mayo, but if I buy at $tree it isn't too wasteful.

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  6. allyroo H
    allyroo H says:

    So fun! Those meatballs would be good on a sub roll for sandwiches too. I hope you aren't wearing yourself out making all of these videos, but I'm loving it!

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  7. karla stein
    karla stein says:

    We need to use some of their tricks today, since food is so expensive, and it’s summer and it’s Hot outside. I’m really enjoying your video’s. I just made cucumber soup, and cream of celery soup,I serve them chilled good for the heat.

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  8. JewelBlueIbanez
    JewelBlueIbanez says:

    You can save even more potato by removing the eyes with a carrot peeler. The pointed end is for removing eyes from potatoes. You just stick it in, and move it in a circle around the eye and it comes out with much less waste.

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  9. Heather Sumner
    Heather Sumner says:

    The Amish from where I am from still speak German fluently. I love collecting the really old cookbooks. I periodically grab cookbooks and look through them. The old ones have other household things in them. It gives you a peak back into the past.

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  10. ShelbyLynn Williams
    ShelbyLynn Williams says:

    Great video! This video really had me thinking about how it must have been and the meals my own grandmothers cooked. One of my grandmothers was married in 1913 & my other grandmother was married in 1914. They were in their 60s when I was born, I am in my 60s now. I just realized that neither of my grandmothers cooked spaghetti or meatballs. They lived in the South. My mother did cook spaghetti, every Saturday night that was the menu along with a salad.

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  11. Dona Clashman
    Dona Clashman says:

    everything looked so very delicious! that potato salad is reminiscence of what my grandmother made along with wilted lettuce <3 she never had a fridge until the early 1960s! she used a concrete type of block. I can't even imagine!!

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