Money | 02/27/2009 9:55 am
Great Depression Cooking With Clara Cannucciari (Video)

At 93 years old, Clara Cannucciari has fond memories of surviving the Great Depression — and also of the wonderful meals she and her mother cooked in the kitchen. Times may have been tough, but the family always enjoyed a hot meal.
Now, decades later, as the economy sinks, Cannucciari is sharing her secrets on her own online cooking show called "Great Depression Cooking With Clara."
Taped in her kitchen, each installment features simple, delicious and, most importantly, inexpensive recipes. Her meals include meatloaf, pasta with peas and egg-drop soup. Also, throughout her cooking shows, the great grandmother shares stories from her childhood — which included bootleggers concocting whiskey in her parents’ home and living without heat to save money.
All of her episodes are available on YouTube. Below is an episode where Cannucciari prepares French bread with peppers and eggs:























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Only in America!
I suspect something is missing in the bread…like flavor? No salt, no oil, no sweetness - flour, yeast and water. No wonder they were depressed.
I did enjoy the telling of her memories though.
I think the stories are
DeBurca,
Add Elsie, my mom’s name and Eleanor, my aunt’s- also very popular names during that era. I also got the steady diet of nothing being thrown away but repaired and every part of a chicken used, etc. Also stories of WWII and rationings. Oh, those were the days.