Our Depression-era wacky cake is moist, fluffy, and chocolately, with a tender crumb, it just happens to be vegan, and it ...

Depression era food is all about stretching ingredients further. That doesn't mean the recipes need to suffer from a lack 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, ...

What if you could create all those cozy flavors of the all-American pie, with no fruit at all? This may sound like an impossible feat, but a famous Great Depression-era recipe shows you that this ...

During the Great Depression, families across America were forced to get creative in the kitchen, stretching limited ...

Why Make Depression-Era Recipes? If you have parents or grandparents who grew up in that era, you no doubt have heard stories about the ways people got creative to get by. Throughout this period, a ...

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 ...

Wacky Cake, also known as Depression Cake, was popularized during World War II when rationing certain ingredients was ...

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 ...

"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 ...