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Bulldog gravy was a Great Depression-era foodstuff associated with American coal miners, [1] [2] [3] which consists of a mixture of milk, flour and grease. [4] Contemporary recipes give the proportions as "1/4 cup drippings from frying sausage, bacon, chicken, or pork chops, mixed with 1/4 cup flour and 2 cups milk".
Video games set during the Great Depression (1929-1939) or depicting its effects. Pages in category "Great Depression video games" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Depression cake is a type of cake that was commonly made during the Great Depression. The ingredients include little or no milk, sugar, butter, or eggs, because the ingredients were then either expensive or hard to obtain. Similar cakes are known as "War Cake", as they avoided ingredients that were scarce or were being conserved for the use of ...
Depression glass. Depression glass is glassware made in the period 1929–1939, often clear or colored translucent machine-made glassware that was distributed free, or at low cost, in the United States and Canada around the time of the Great Depression. Depression glass is so called because collectors generally associate mass-produced glassware ...
The Great Depression was a period of severe global economic downturn that occurred from 1929 to 1939. It was characterised by high unemployment rates, crisies of liquidity, and widespread business failures around the world. [ 1 ] The economic contagion began around September 1929 in the United States, the largest economy in the world. [ 2 ]
Photos of America during the Great Depression, much like the mood of the country, are often bleak, available only in black and white -- until now. Gorgeous color photos from the Great Depression ...
Famine food. A famine food or poverty food is any inexpensive or readily available food used to nourish people in times of hunger and starvation, whether caused by extreme poverty, such as during economic depression or war, or by natural disasters such as drought. Foods associated with famine need not be nutritionally deficient, or unsavory.
In the United States, the Great Depression began with the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and then spread worldwide. The nadir came in 1931–1933, and recovery came in 1940. The stock market crash marked the beginning of a decade of high unemployment, poverty, low profits, deflation, plunging farm incomes, and lost opportunities for economic ...