Made with basic kitchen staples, this old-fashioned buttermilk pie pairs a creamy, custard-like filling with a flaky pastry ...

Depression-era cooking wasn’t just about making do with less-it created some incredibly delicious recipes that shine through generations. My grandmother taught me how frugal cooks transformed simple ...

During the Great Depression, home cooks were challenged with using limited resources to feed their families. Although they faced hardships, their resourcefulness and creativity helped them prevail in ...

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 ...

I tried a chocolate-cake recipe with no eggs or dairy that dates back to the Great Depression. Known as "Depression cake," the penny-pinching recipe is useful now due to the high price of eggs. I didn ...

Back during the Great Depression, Nabisco needed clever ways to market its products. For graham crackers, that meant promoting "cracker cookery." ...