making a humble bowl of oatmeal feel special. The addition of milk, when available, added crucial protein. This dish exemplifies Depression-era ingenuity – using stale bread as a thickener and ...

The unexpected element, chocolate gravy, actually is "a Depression-era recipe that was most commonly eaten on big flaky biscuits for breakfast or dessert." Wide Open Eats says that mayonnaise was ...

Then fill the potato bowl you’ve made with the lamb mixture ... Use the liquid in the pan to make a gravy. Season it with a few drops of Worcestershire sauce.

The dishes were composed of disjointed fowl or the cracked joints of larger animals, fried, then simmered in a rich gravy ... Southern cooks during the Depression because it stretched ...

It was Depression-era food: basic, cheap and filling ... Pour milk mixture over bread in bowl and allow to stand 1 hour. Combine remaining 1 cup sugar and corn syrup in separate 2-quart saucepan.