I've been thinking about the stories I've been told about the depression and how tough it was for people. My folks were young people then and talked about how bad things were and how inventive people were.
This prompted me to look up "depression recipes" on the net. One of the recipes was for bread made from flour, yeast and water, nothing else. Well Friday I tried that and all I can say is it was edible. Not much taste, but if you put something on it, butter, jam, etc., You could eat it.
I suppose if it was all I had it might taste better.
One thing I read, told of boiling dried meat in a pot of water and some salt for a few hours then adding whatever vegetables you had around and boiling it for a couple more hours. Before serving it it would be mashed into a gravy consistency and pored over crumbled bread.
Maybe that would make the bread taste good.
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I read once that Irish Soda Bread came into being because they were too poor to afford yeast for the bread, so some creative soul started using baking soda instead.
I was wondering about sour dough bread also. Like where it got its start. It always seems that the poor people come up with the inventive answers. But then, I guess they have to.
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