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Great Depression Cooking

Cynthia — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:35 +0000

I was sharing with my sister the other day on the phone about how my kids enjoy a simple recipe I found on Clara’s site called Pasta with Peas. It is so simple!! I knew the kids would eat it, because they are really good at trying new things that I make, but I didn’t know it would end up being one of their favorites.

When I tell them we are having Pasta with Peas, they get all excited and cannot wait for it to be done. Go figure!! My husband enjoys it too, so that makes it one of our regular, quick recipes.

We have also enjoyed her tradition of having sugar for Sunday breakfast. The kids like this. Clara had sugar cookies, and we have her sugar cookies now and then, but we have extended this to enjoying sticky buns or scones of different types. The kids and I then enjoy these with a cup of tea.

Here is the video of her cooking Pasta with Peas. You can see more on her YouTube Channel.

She even has a book out now!!

I think Clara’s Book and DVD will go great with any Great Depression Unit Study. I have listed a few links I found around the net that have Great Depression Lesson Plans. I have noticed that most of the lessons I found were geared more for the upper grades, middle and high school. But I did find a nice selection of books that can be read by or to the lower age kids.

After doing these searches, I am thinking of doing a mini-study myself with the kids. It would be great for them to get an idea how we might have to live if we ever get that bad again. It is also good just to learn how to be frugal and to live below our means. We are so blessed right now, that I would hate to be unprepared, both mentally and physically, if we were to have to cut down or do without.

Other Great Depression Resources

Here is her Depression Cooking Channel on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/DepressionCooking

Visions in the Dust
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/dust/intro.html

The Great Depression Unit – Based around Alabama, but still great for understanding the time.

Great Depression Lessons- Scroll Down to Unit Nine titled, "United States Between the Wars".

Great Depression Journals- A nice activity that will fit along fine with your Great Depression Study.

Dear Mrs. Roosevelt- Letter written to the first lady by children asking for her help during the Great Depression.

Surviving the Dust Bowl (PBS)- Teacher Resources and a video to watch online.

Great Depression Powerpoints

Books of Interest

Potato:A Tale from the Great Depression
By Kate Lied

Written by an eight-year-old girl in Kansas, this picture book is just a slice of family history, but the personal account does help make the past accessible for young children. Kate Lied says it is a story about her grandparents, told her by her aunt, and that it is also about the Great Depression and how hard things were.

Her grandfather lost his job, and the bank took away the family house. The family found work for two weeks picking potatoes in Idaho. They lived in tents and worked all day, and they were allowed to pick potatoes for themselves at night; but the work lasted only two weeks, and then they went home again, loaded up with potatoes.

It’s not quite a story, but Ernst’s warm pictures on a brown, grainy background have a childlike simplicity. They are framed like photos in an album and may encourage kids to listen to their own family stories and pass them on.

Dust for Dinner (I Can Read Book – Level 3)
By Ann Turner

Jake and Maggy lived on a farm where they loved to sing and dance to the music from Mama’s radio. Then terrible dust storms came and ruined the land. The family had no choice but to auction off the farm and make the long, hard journey west to California-away from the dust storms, where the land is still green.

Along the way, Papa tries to find work, and Jake and Maggy try to help too. But what if Papa can’t find a job? What if California isn’t better after all?

Ann Turner’s dramatic story about the dust bowl, set during the Great Depression and beautifully captured in Robert Barrett’s paintings, shows how one family stays together during difficult times.

Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of The School at Weedpatch Camp
By Jerry Stanley

From the Inside Flap

Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school–until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field.

Children of the Great Depression
By Russell Freedman

As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, children whose families found themselves struggling for survival . . . all Depression-era young people faced challenges like unemployed and demoralized parents, inadequate food and shelter, schools they couldn’t attend because they had to go to work, schools that simply closed their doors. Even so, life had its bright spots—like favorite games and radio shows—and many young people remained upbeat and optimistic about the future.

Drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters, and other firsthand accounts, and richly illustrated with classic archival photographs, this book by one of the most celebrated authors of nonfiction for children places the Great Depression in context and shows young readers its human face. Endnotes, selected bibliography, index.

More Books on The Great Depression

Blessings,

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Tuesday Tea: Cucumber Sandwiches And A Good Book

Cynthia — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:39:51 +0000

Hosted by Lori at My Little Wonders

For our tea time yesterday, I found a recipe in my binder that I used a few years back for cucumber sandwiches. The kids liked them then, and I thought it would be out of the ‘norm’. So, I made them. They came out yummy!!

The kids each had a half, and then confessed that they really did not care for them. Oh well, more for me! You can guess what I will be having today for lunch! LOL!

Our book was ‘A Friend from Galilee.’ I got it on sale at Christian Books.

A Friend from GalileeBy Dandi Daley Mackall / Augsburg Fortress

Through rhyming, read-together verses, this colorful book builds an intimate, approachable portrait of Jesus, who longs for our friendship as we long for his. A Friend From Galilee portrays Jesus as a child and a child of today, emphasizing how Jesus is still involved in our lives. The whole family can explore the related Bible verses in a journey toward reaching a deeper friendship with Jesus.

I wasn’t feeling good today. I woke up with a stuffed up nose and had a headache all day. It wasn’t a huge headache, but it was annoying. I finally succumbed to taking Ibuprofen in the evening.

Don went into town by himself because I wasn’t feeling good. But since we were home, I decided to go ahead and have our Tea Party instead of waiting today when Don goes back to work.

The kids were good and played, read and behaved real well while I relaxed for most of the day.

Thanks for visiting us. Hope to see you next week.

Blessings,
Cynthia

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Tuesday Tea::Rice Crispy Treats

Cynthia — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:06:52 +0000

Hosted by Lori at My Little Wonders

Today, we made rice crispy treats to go with our Tuesday Tea. The kids did most of the work while I supervised. I did stir in the rice crispies because they were too interested in tasting the melted marshmallows. I gave them each a small spoon dipped into the melted marshmallows, so while they tasted, I stirred in the rice crispy cereal.

We had them with sweet tea because we were hot for some reason. We read, ‘When the Frost Is on The Punkin’ by James Whitcomb Riley. It was a cute story about summer ending and the arrival of autumn.

Well, I hope you enjoyed our Tuesday Tea this week.

See ya next week,
Cynthia

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Tuesday Tea

Cynthia — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:17:42 +0000

Today the kids and I participated in our first Tea on Tuesday hosted by My Little Wonders.

Tea time is something we do every so often, but I would like to add it weekly as something to look forward to.

We have used tea parties in our family for a while. When MaryEllen was potty trained, we had a tea party to celebrate. We whipped up some shortbread cookies and something else I cannot seem to remember, but I know it was a fun time. The whole family participated. Ahh! Memories!!

Sometimes we have them during lunch, other times we add a goodie. About a week ago, we had one for lunch. Donnie made the sandwiches. These were tomato and cheese sandwiches. We have had ham, turkey and cucumber sandwiches in the past.

The tea pot is a special addition. It was my grandmothers. We recently moved after being packed for close to three years, and while unpacking, I cannot find the lid. I hope it shows up.

The tea cups and dishes were given to me about 13 years ago. A friends room mate did not pay rent, so all her stuff became the property of my friend after a certain amount of time. She let me and my sisters go through and take what we wanted before she had a yard sale. These are still with me!! It is a nice set, one I probably could not afford! LOL!

Okay, here is a picture from last weeks tea party. This is when it hit me that there is a Tea on Tuesday tradition going around. My sister Linda, is the one who introduced me to this. She asked me to make the graphic you see above for her friend, Lori, at My Little Wonders.

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Okay, today we had some goodies my husband picked up at the supermarket the other day. You cannot send him to the store hungry or he will come home with too many goodies.

We read ‘Larry Lights the Way’. It was a good story about how we are happier when we are doing what we enjoy and using our talents that God gave us to help others. Helping others makes us happy!!

We didn’t use our traditional tea pot because…well, I don’t know. My thinking at the time was that we already have a full pitcher of ice tea in the refrigerator, so I do not need to make any tea. I usually use the tea I make for ice tea, before it is iced, for our tea parties. Anyway, we just heated up water and had decaffeinated tea.

We had a wonderful time.

Well, I hope you enjoyed visiting our tea party. See ya’ll next week.

Blessings,
Cynthia

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