Potato Candy is a Great Depression Era recipe that contains just three ingredients — potatoes, icing sugar (also called confectioners sugar or powdered sugar) and peanut butter. You can use any nut or seed butter you like – we made ours nut free by using Wow Butter. The history of potato candy is hard to…
Category: Recipes From Our Kitchen
Brownies from the 1940s
These brownies from the 1940s are simply delicious! They are soft and tender with a chewy edge. They’re not sweet as I had expected them to be because of the corn syrup. They’re not bitter either being as we changed the type of chocolate used. And they’re great because these brownies do not use up…
Whole Wheat Depression Bread
When my girls and I were first learning about the Great Depression, one of the things we learned was how important bread was and how it was served with each meal. It is a great filler and offers a bit of substance when helping to stretch a meal. It helped fill a hungry belly when…
Tortilla Casserole
I have been making this yummy casserole for over 20 years. I had some tortillas to use up and cooked up ground beef, added corn and beans and tossed it in between layers of tortillas, cheese and salsa. I changed it up a bit over the years, but it still tastes the same — super…
Hopscotch Crunchies
My mom has been making these delectable squares since I was a kid!! It’s a crunchy, nutty, butterscotch square with fluffy marshmallows. They’re delicious! My mom got this recipe for Hopscotch Crunchies (that’s what they’re called in the cookbook!) from a Ukrainian cookbook called Baba’s Cookbook (pictured below), and I slightly adjusted the recipe (mainly…
Avocado Pesto Pasta
We bought a small bag of avocados, and have been eating them all week in bbq chicken rice bowls, chili and we decided to use the rest up on this delicious avocado pesto pasta. It’s like guacamole on pasta — it’s so good! And a dish I’ll make any time we have a bunch of…
Broccoli Cheese Sauce
We always used to get broccoli cheese potatoes when we ate out and they were always so delicious! Since we haven’t had them in years, I thought we’d make them to enjoy at home! And they’re simply delicious. You can change it up by adding different seasonings, jalapeno or even different cheeses. This broccoli cheese…
Valentine’s Tea Party
For Valentines this year, we decided to have a tea party complete with exchanging Valentines which I thought was fun and cute!! We decorated the table with paper heart confetti, heart valentine balloons and of course the flowering plant. My daughter used her Tupperware kids tea set which she’s been collecting since she was in…
