Great Depression Cooking - The Poorman's Meal - Higher Resolution

welcome to my kitchen I'm Claire a 91 years old today we are making meals from the Depression [Music] I'm gonna make the poor man's meal which we ate during the Depression it has potatoes and hotdogs because they were cheaper so we got the hot dogs let's begin by peeling the potatoes what do you want to hear about the depression I had a quit high school cuz couldn't afford socks couldn't afford anything to wear but we survived sir hide we were all faster my father used to buy a sack of potatoes and we ate potatoes every day but things would pasta potatoes fried but their's with eggs the way my father would buy a second potato sack of everything flour potatoes were a dollar a sec that was a lot of money a dollar this is the last one I think I'm gonna peel I think today the kids like to smell my grandson's like it his friends like it they come here for a poor man's meal if we had a bad potatoes we take the best part out and still need it next step is to cube the potatoes after you peel them your Cuban take out all the bad parts you know I had to quit high school because I didn't have sockets to wear that's a fact now I'm putting the onion in the potatoes well it all depends on how many potatoes you have and I think this in this case once I get it enough now I'll put a little oil in the pan just judge by yourself how much oil on your knees it runs out of oil and you put a little more but in this case we don't know yet so I'm gonna put this on the stove now and fry it turn on the gas I got all the neighborhood kids coming they come in and they say can we have a poor man meal they all like us and we made that bad name poor man's meal we should have called it the depression meal getting the hotdogs ready cutting them up so we could fry them with the potatoes it all depends how many potatoes you got I think my four is enough for this not potatoes here hotdogs are half cooked in there tasty and they were cheap so and if that was cheap sticking mark comes overnight and make me the poor man of the meal then he brings his friend Tom I usually cook for them Mark's friends they're boys they like my poor man's meal too this was very bad with a long one too I had a little garden of my own and lady came my one of my neighbors with a shopping bag and she was going in my yard my garden and I said where are you going she's I'm going to pick a few things this is what why don't you ask me I'll give it to you you know but I don't want you to go there and just take what you want I said that's a lot of work for me she was she came to fill her shopping bag with my clothes my garden why don't you were so sexy I just I am stuck yes I work hard to have that garden she just made herself at home [Applause] I'm gonna put it just a couple of tablespoons of sauce in here I'm going to put the hot dogs what's the facility take the potatoes if there cooks then you know you're done hot dogs will get a little crooked well those kind of bends I put the water in so this potatoes will soften up and make a nice sauce for them let it cook for a few minutes and they're almost ready it has potatoes and hotdogs so at the Bob it there's not much to it if you want to watch me make it I'll be right here [Applause] you

Channel: Great Depression Cooking

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Length: 6min 41sec (401 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 08 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/You_are_Retards]

this is called a hash. common in Europe.

[u/Platypuslord]

But every meal I make is from the great depression, if I can care enough to make it that is.

[u/whidbeysounder]

I’m sorry but if you have big hunks of meat in your meal it’s not a poor man’s meal. You’re doing OK !

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[u/lebanese-beaver]

We call that a Garbage Plate, lady. Easy on the Franks Hot Sauce.

[u/WookHunter5280]

WHAT DO WE SAY TO JAR SAUCE, GRANNY??

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Nicely done Clara, you are a gem.

[u/oahusurfer2018]

This is lovely, Clara. Thank you so much for posting this! What a delightful thing to watch. You are truly a gem.