with ALL these Spam recipes you would think That was All they Ate LOL.

My favorite spam recipe is to shred the spam and mix it with shredded cheese and a little mayo. Them fill buns (hamburger or smaller) and wrap them in aluminum foil and heat in the oven until the cheese is melted. YUM!
Can't fix this for my husband as he doesn't like ham, spam or bacon. What a wierdo!

My mother made us "depression" sandwiches in the 50s, she grew up eating them and must have loved em. Put a swipe of butter on one slice of bread, butter side down on a broiler pan, top with bean (when feeling wealthy) top with a 1/2 slice of american cheese, broil for a few minutes and that was dinner! Ate it for years

HERE'S ONE FOR YOU
From "Mother Earth News" year???

ToothPowder
To make your own toothpowder, throughly mix three parts baking soda (the cleaner and sweetner) with one part salt (the abrasive) and funnel the compound into a short small-mouthed container such as an empty, washed pop bottle. The creation has a satisfying, differnt taste and leaves your mouth feeling fresh and soothed. If you like it, add a few drops of pepperment or wintergreen oil to the concoction...or mix the "home brew" half and half with commercial tooth powder.

FROM THE "WHITEHOUSE COOKBOOK" 1913

Facts Worth Knowing

To Preserve Brooms Dip them for a minute or two in a kettle of boiling suds once a week abd they will last much longer, making them tough and pliable. A carper wears much longer swept with a broom cared for in this manner.

Hi TShooters,

I looked and am going to try some of those spam jam recipes!

Janiew that was hilarious! thanbks for sharing that one!

Icon17, didn't they make a thickener for the beans?

could mean dear honey!!

this was very interesting, I thoroughly enjoyed this sharing, I got the thought because of the times today, need to strretch that dollar, conserve and cut back. So my thought is toi see if what they did back then, maybe I should try and see ifd I can do it too. I will cjheck those links, I forgot about Fanny Farmer, Just something for me to check out. again I hope all of you enjoyed this as much as I did.

I used to do the baking soda and salt! as for the spam, that might have been all they could afford at that time unless they raised their chickens, pigs, cows ect. I know they had victory gardens, was always talked about when I was a child. I think my aunts had a bunch of canned veggies in the cellar! and I do remember some good eating.

here is one, a child hood memory, boiled chicken feet, with dumplings. I only mentioned this one, because I seen some in the grocery store the other day! can we say yuck?? well what about pigs feet, or beef tongue?? yuck and yuck, and I could name some other parts of the animals which I won't here. and people ate that stuff back then, besides spam!

So that hamburger, or pork chop does look good, huh?

I got a bunch of recipes , thanks for the infoi!!

My mother used to make Spaetzles (sp?) and Lentils. This has been one of our families favorites also. I make the lentils pretty much according to the bag's directions..maybe more onions sometimes garlic and have also added tomatoes. The spaezles are easy but take a while. We made them for a lot of people usually - 5-6 I guess. It a BIG bowl mix flour (about 6-8 cups) add 4-5 eggs, and milk to make a thick heavy batter. Batter will be very hard to stir.

We had a spaetzle board that was wooden with the end taperd down to the edge. Put a glob of batter on the board (or on the back of a smooth plate) and take a dinner knife and cut off small pieces into boiling water. They cook fast...as soon as they float take out of water with a slotted spoon and put on plate. Note..the more eggs you use the heavier they are, so for lighter ones use less egg and a little more milk.

This recipe cost nearly nothing and feeds a lot. We would put the spaetzles on our dinner plate and cover with lentils...MMMMMMMMMM good. ps...they also are very good for constipation...lol

My mom always breaded then fried it til golden brown. So Good!!!

Hey quilty mom, I think I do remember that one!

Is that kind of like a quick noodle? So, you could put a sauce over it?

Spam... Is used very widely in Hawaii/Guam and some of the other pacific islands. I grew up on something called commodity meat. It was very similar to spam. We fixed it all kinds of ways.. frying it with potatoes/eating it on a fresh flower tortilla. Today I still eat spam and fix it the same way. I lived in Hawaii in the 70's, we were military and we fixed spam with white rice. My sister-in-law who is from Hawaii still makes fried rice with spam.

I think your mom was not only an inventive women....she was a women indeed!! Giving her children the memory you just shared with us.

I keep SPAM on my emergency food storage shelf with other canned meats that go with the dried/canned beans and rice. I started keeping emergency foods on hand because of unforeseen events such as power outages. I was home alone and power was out for almost a day due to a grid outage- prompted me to buy more "unscented candles", check battery supplies and update emergency supply backpack. In that backpack are first aid supplies,ponchos, crank lanterns and emergency radio. It is stored with tent, large moving quilt and other type supplies. I hope nothing every happens but it is best to stay prepared. Especially water and canned fruits can keep you hydrated. Some folks ask if I throw out my emergency food stuff-nope. I only keep things that I can incorporate into our regular menus. So SPAM gets diced and put in scrambled eggs, onions and pepper wraps for breakfast or into potato or mac and cheese casseroles. FYI - SPAM comes in many flavors now-http://www.spam.com/varieties

A delicious Spam recipe: Slice spam thinly and fry. Make toast. Mix and heat one can whole kernel corn and one can cream style corn. To serve....put one slice bread on plate. Arrange two slices of fried spam over toast. Ladel a generous portion of hot corn over the spam. Cut into fork sized pieces. Absolutely delicious. My family has never heard of anyone else eating this, but its one of our favorites.

thanks for the recipe

DH......Means Dear Hubby or Dear Husband

We certainly didn't have much growing up, but canned a lot of our own food. Breakfast was usually peanut butter toast, or my Dad's favorites were milk toast (buttered toast dampened in hot milk) or milk crackers (crumbled saltines and sugar in cold milk). I wasn't a big fan of shredded wheat. Then of course were the many critter meals- hunting was the only way to stretch the budget for 8, and my German GrandFather was a great hunter. Snapping turtle-woodchuck-squirrel-rabbit-raccoon stews. I had a hard time with raising our own poultry to eat. Don't forget the good old pressure cooker meals! I still remember Mom helping a neighbor clean up after the top blew off hers. And lots of Jello salads. I still have some boxes of Mom's old cookbooks- Rumford was a favorite. Spam- I refused to eat it.

Spam is now very expensive per pound compared to hamburger, chicken, etc. It used to be very cheap when I was a kid.

I have never eaten Spam even though it is available here in Australia. My mum used to buy a canned meat called Camp Pie. We ate it with salad or on sandwiches. I remember we liked it but I haven't eaten it since I was kid. Mum was a brilliant cook, had the knack to make any type of pastry and made cakes & biscuits (cookies) every weekend. When I think of all the sugar we consumed not to mention butter we all should have been obese but with no TV, X Box, DS or computer we were outside most of the time and walked or ran everywhere.
Aaaahhh!! the good old days.

When I was growing up; we also had the commodity meat[ looks like Spam, from the government, for low income families].
I used to make a Spanish Rice recipe and add the Spam lookalike meat to that.
Also would make Pizza burgers with it.
1can Spam- ground up using the old box grater
1 lb hamburger
1 small onion, chopped/grated
1 can tomato soup
pizza spices[oregano, parsley, thyme,garlic powder-whatever you like, as desired]
open face hamburger buns


Fry hamburger, onions, spam- until brown
Add tomato soup , spices.Heat through. Spead buns with meat mixture.Sprinkle cheese over top. Bake in 350 f oven until browned. About 1/2 hour.
Could have added green peppers[cooked along with the meat mixture] and also mushrooms.




REALLY DIDN'T HAVE PRINTED OUT RECIPES FOR THESE TWO FOODS BUT THEY SURE TASTED WONDERFUL AS TEENAGER.

Spam Museum in Minneapolis.

I remember growing up rural and Grandpa ran the General Store in town too. We ate from the garden, chickens, hogs, and all kinds of jellies! Canning all summer with the heat cooking us too! Grandma made plenty of potatoes - fried with sausage and eggs in the morning, boiled, often cold, with sandwiches for lunch, and mashed with meat for supper. Also noodles with stewed tomatoes, plenty of soups to use the last bits of corn etc. Coffee cakes were baked every Saturday with wonderful spices. Bread on the wood stove gave a heavenly smell when coming in from the cold snow.

As for recipes I always liked Shepherds Pie. Easy just brown hamburger, add assorted veggies and tomato base (I now use soup and sometimes mushroom), put into casserole dish, top with mashed potatoes and bake about a half hour til hot. Add a cucumber salad - cukes sliced thin with onions in a sweet sour sauce, homemade bread with mulberry jelly, and pie for desert. Ah, memories.

My DH liked spam, slice, fry, eat with fried eggs or make a sandwich.

Am I the only one who things Spam is just toooooo salty? My husband bought a can (as a joke) and we tried it...but I ate one small slice and the rest went in the trash.

Lynn

sorry for the misspelling of thinks. I tried to correct it before the message went through...

Lynn

Reading through this reminds me of being a kid at family gatherings and asking about the keepsakes in a box that would find their way out to where I was with the oldest relatives. I learned that our families were lucky enough to be able to barter for gas or rides to get to grandparents' farm at least once a month if not once a week. Milk, eggs, fresh fruit and vegies. In other words, they had survived crossing the ocean and starting over in 1850s on one branch; had dug deep and pioneered on three others. They raised families and helped neighbors during the Great Depression of the thirties so a little hardship in getting manufactured goods could be lived with. Royal Baking Powder had a recipe book that dealt with the basics of biscuits and cakes etc from the twenties. The Household Search Light Cookbooks were like the America's Test Kitchen of today. Basics were taught at grandma's or mom's elbow --- the joy of cooking a full meal with Grandma sitting in place and letting me run the cookstove (wood fired) to do Sunday dinner in the early sixties was great. I even learned how to make a smooth, thin gravy for the roast beef. During the second world war Grandma didn't do as much cookie baking as she did when I arrived in the fifties. Perhaps they should've continued rationing sugar and flour??
WilliP

Well said! Can't express in words how we used to enjoy cooking with Grandama. Her little tips and the way she used to add herbs to and all ingredients to recipe was all perfect.

Ice Box Molasses Cookies My Grandma made these often: 1 cup EACH shortening, molasses, brown sugar, 1 egg, 4 cups flour, 1 teas. EACH salt, soda, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves. Boil together shortening, molasses and brown sugar over low heat til boiling. Remove and let cool to luke-warm, add egg and mix well, sift together flour and spices, add and mix well. Pack tightly into greased pan and cover tightly. (I roll into a long coil in wax-paper) Chill in ice box several hours or overnight, Slice thin on greased baking sheet. Bake at 350( or when she said the wood stove was hot enough) for 15 minutes. Makes about 10 dozen. Delicious!

Mom's Meat Loaf;
1# hamburger
1/2#sausage
2 eggs
1 c. milk
2 c. bread crumbs
salt and pepper
1/2 t. sage
1/4 t. garlic powder
1/4 t. onion powder
Toast the bread for crumbs; toast twice to have nice and crumbly; add to milk. Beat eggs and add to milk mixture.
Combine meat and have well blended; add seasonings and mix well. Add milk-egg mixture; mix well. Put in baking pan.
Topping: Combine 1 c. ketchup with brown sugar and mix well. Poke holes in meat mixture, and pour topping over and spread well.
Put in baking dishes; this makes a large meat loaf. For just 2 people, I use 2-3 pans, and freeze part of it. It is wonderful to have on hand when you don't care if you cook or not, or company comes. Makes great meat loaf sandwiches; my DH and Son's favorite sandwich!
My Mom made this quite a lot, as it was quick, easy and made a lot.
Mariah.

My grandmother made that on Friday nights...she made two bowls..one with bacon and one without for the Catholic family members. Only difference was she cooked the mac almost done and she added a bell pepper. I love that and love to smell it cooking...

Spaetzle is like a small dumpling. Really wonderful to eat. I would kill for a real Spaetzle cutter...
Shoot, now I have a taste for them...

My Mom used to have to stand in line at the stores during WWII for my Grandmother...she would stand in line sometimes for 1 roll of toilet paper.

She still talks about my Grandma making spagetti with bacon as the meat....HORRIBLE! It was the only meat she could get a bit of and it needed to stretch to feed 5...including my grandfather and Gt Grandfather.

Here is a spread recipe I made up using a can of spam, 8 oz block of softened cream cheese and prepared horseradish. Put the spam and cream cheese in a food processor until mixed, then add horseradish to taste. I usually add about 2-3 tablespoons. Great to spread on crackers and hard bread.