During the Depression, scarce resources and frugal mindsets forced home cooks to get creative during the holidays, but the recipes they devised out of necessity deserve a second look in times of ...

A homemade pie cooling in a window with a glass jar of milk and a cat - Tom Kelley/Getty Images When the stock market crashed in 1929, the United States entered the Great Depression. For a decade, ...

The Great Depression rolled through the nation in 1930, and families did not have jobs or savings to fall back on. Eggs, milk ...

During the Depression, families used every last bit of food, usually getting creative. Watermelon rinds are no exception; ...

Volunteers donate meals from their own tables. Or, like the volunteers we caught up with at St. Jerome's Church in Northeast Philadelphia, they cook in church or synagogue kitchens. As the economy ...

Cornmeal, water, and a little time — that’s all it takes to recreate this Depression-era recipe that’s stood the test of time.

"I was a young girl in the late '20s when my mom made this recipe, but it was called Eggless, Milkless, Butterless Cake." So writes Loretta DeWitte of Bettendorf in response to a cake recipe printed ...