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Talked to my grandma about her depression era cooking
She told me she used to stretch one chicken into 4 meals by using every single part including the feet for broth. Made me realize how much meat I just throw in the freezer and forget about. Anyone else got old family tricks for making cheap ingredients go way further?
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the_lucas25d ago
Read somewhere that bone broth was basically a depression era staple because people wasted nothing.
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jones.brooke24d ago
And that simmered collagen is the only thing that kept my grandmother's joints from locking up during the cold winters.
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hugo_jones19d ago
Oh man, I actually see it a bit different. Bone broth was more of a fancy health food thing back then, not really a poverty staple. People saved bones for soups and stocks sure, but the whole 'sipping bone broth for collagen' thing is pretty modern from what I've read. I mean, my grandma wouldve looked at you funny if you called her chicken stock 'bone broth.'
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