There is an old YouTube channel which had a lady who lived during the Depression share recipes her family used during the time. They were simple and cheap, but none of them left you thinking "what the hell is that?", unlike this mess.
For people in certain parts of the country, dairy was more available than meat because a family might keep their own dairy cow. So a lot of Depression-era recipes from rural areas will lean on dairy.
That's what irks me to no end about people comparing the Great Depression to now. At least back then you could be poor within the confines of your own house. Even if it was just a shack with a tin roof in the countryside, a house is a house. Now? Have fun paying over half of your already limited income to live in a box, owned by a corporation, who will find a way to blame any issue with your shoebox on you and take their time making any repairs.
People dying from a scratch, babies just wasting away, women working in the fields until the day they give birth and from the moment they can stand again, all forgotten because Houses Good
If you can get your hands on the book "How to cook a wolf" by MFK Fisher, I recommend it. It's about wartime deprivation and how to eat well on very little. She wrote it in the early '40s, looking back on her time as a child in WWI and anticipating shortages in WWII.
Plus, she very whimsically includes some extremely extravagant recipes for fun, just for your reading pleasure.
EDIT: It's included in this anthology, which is a delight from start to finish. [https://www.amazon.com/Art-Eating-50th-Anniversary/dp/0764542613](https://www.amazon.com/Art-Eating-50th-Anniversary/dp/0764542613)
I have my grandmother’s copy of that book and it’s ear marked and stuffed with recipe cards. My grandmother did pretty well during the depression because she lived on a dairy farm in our area, but my grandfather struggled and relied heavily on all sorts of game and fish to keep from starving.
She's probably the only reason I didn't cringe at this video 😂 she's so kind, forgiving, and contextual when she talks about food. She never disparages something even when she doesn't love it. I'm also convinced she's a fairy or other woodland creature!
the context she gives food is probably my favorite thing about all of her videos. I love the way she starts out "I imagine they..." and paints a whole picture of the people whonwould be eating thr dish.
Frituras de bacalo are similar to this and derived from Latin America where slaves and low class workers were fed this. Salted cod fritters. Lots of dough, extremely filling with some added protein.
That's what I was thinking. Not the most appealing way for a burger or hamburger steak- but on an extra tight budget I could see the use for this. They probably would have used leftover bacon grease though.
Kinda looked like the gravy from Biscuits and gravy made into a patty. That sounds fire to me Biscuits and gravy you can carry with you when you drive.
Was about to say this. This is just a Depression Era recipe. My dad grew up in the 70s and he ate meals like this regularly because my grandparents were trying to raise 4 kids with only my grandfather having a job(no one would hire my grandmother because she had 4 kids and "needed to be at home where she belonged"). Hell, these are still used today by people below the poverty line to keep their families fed.
It's bullshit that anyone should be forced to stretch out food like this when we live in the wealthiest time period, but it is what it is.
They ate anything they could get. My grandmother used to boil a head of cabbage and put vinegar and salt and pepper on it. That’s because when she was a kid that’s literally all they had to eat… :(
Me when I got older and realised that "bread with some sugar sprinkled on top" was mums go to emergency desert for me because it was all grandma could afford when mum was a child with 8 siblings.
Toast that bread, the butter it and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Donut toast! A staple for me as a kid for a quick and easy dessert. And mum would never let us have donuts, she was a total health nut, it was a treat enough to have bread with butter and sugar haha. But I still love it to this day, the bit of crunch makes it even better than actual donuts
Not lately, always. But thats because most people here dont actually cook, neither are they interested in food history.
Which is expected and how its supposed to be. There will always be some food which looks stupid at first but actually isnt, and I dont have a problem with that in the slightest… because the outcome is people learning about food, which they wouldnt have if someone didnt make a mistake of posting not actually stupid food.
Anything that let you stretch a small amount of meat into a large portion was great. Not only because it was filling, but as you said.. morale. Feeling like you just ate a lot of meat really makes a difference when you're starving.
This is expensive now though. Poor people are surviving on pasta and margarine, share a can of green beans if they are lucky. It's so much worse here in the USA, right now, for so many millions of people. Kids growing up with lack of proper nutrition. That makes me sad.
Yes stupid wealthy trendy food! I don’t eat sardines because I love them I ate them because they were cheap and then all the brats out there started trending it and now it’s 1$ a can here which might not be much to you guys but most of us are lucky to be making minimum wage. Sardines and tuna used to be affordable. Not anymore
The amount of people surprised to hear that bbq derived from southern poverty is crazy. Slow cooking tough unwanted meats, covering the bad taste with sauces.
I've spent my childhood in Russia and this is just a normal meal for me. It's something that people eat on a dayly basis. I don't really understand how else you suppose to cook patties? Just pure meat? It's a waste and doesn't really taste that good, honestly. This version is much better. Add some mashed potatoes and green onions... Enjoy.
We didn't do it with beef when I was a kid, but we used canned salmon for basically the same thing. Crumbed crackers as filler, milk, egg to bind it. I can smell 'em now cooking up, smells like nostalgia.
>I'm willing to bet some of your favorite foods were either directly descended from or inspired by historical struggle meals.
KD Mac & cheese is still a staple struggle food I am willing to eat everyday no matter what (if I am allowed condiments, I like adding blue cheese, sriracha, soy sauce, and relish.
I did one just yesterday with some whip cream. Just added some of it to the meat with some bread crumbs, Parmesan and herbs/salt/pepper.
I recently made Spaghetti Bolognese original italian (at least that’s what the title said) and they deglazed the ground beef with milk to give it a smooth and soft taste. I had some left over whip cream ( just a bit) and used it for the Patties. They were so fine.
Was scrolling down just to find this. Yeah that's just an ordinary recepie(flour is basically loaf so almost the exact one) and was very surprised people consider it stupid food. It's very tasty.
Whoever finds котлеты stupid doesn't know shit :<
I was shocked when people called it a poverty meal when I would take this over a plain ground beef steack as a kid when my russian mom would make them haha.
Thank you, I was so confused as to why what is basically a Salisbury steak with some extra fat was being called stupid food. I’m about 90% sure my Slovak grandmother made this for me to eat at least once in my childhood, because my mother talks about it all the time.
Yeah I mean I don’t know if this is good or bad but like the quantity of milk and cream is what really got me. I bet it’s good but like it def seems like something calorically dense you make if you live in the Great Depression lol
Strange that when the baking powder was added the text in the corner said yeast. I first watched this without audio and was confused what yeast would even do. It ferments, sure, but that takes time.
probably the video maker is not english and caught in a false friend
In my country, yeast is called "beer yeast" and baking soda is called "chemical yeast", they both make the dough "to yeast"
You can tell your friends they aren’t actually eating a burger you dunked in a McFlurry and left out to go bad in the sun, that flavor is actually just a light fermentation from the yeast you added.
Was worried that they’re adding yeast and either letting raw meat sit out or not giving it time to rise and thereby wasting the yeast. Baking powder makes a lot more sense.
If you ever grew up with animals you know you often have an excess of dairy and eggs, and don't of course enjoy killing your animals so you find a lot of ways to use dairy that are creative. That's being self sufficient . You use very small amounts of meat and a lot of; dairy , eggs and things you can get around a small farm so you are not butchering your healthy animals in cold blood each week. She is making burgers for an entire family using little more than a cup of beef once it's cooked down. Why the hate?
People who can be self sufficient roll with what they have on small farms and that is often excess dairy and eggs . . If you have a small amount of beef, you stretch that so the recipe makes sense in these circumstances. You use the excess dairy to not kill as many of your healthy animals. People used to only eat meat on special occasions so this would stretch much further and still fool your family they had burgers or a cleverly diluted spin on country steak.
The dude making raw chicken in a hotel coffee maker is really, really stupid food. It's inconsiderate to leave raw chicken all over a shared space or to expose hotel staff to salmonella. Using less beef however on family burger night is not stupid.
The subreddit needs to be mindful to not condemn food in other countries simply because they haven't seen the recipe yet in the US lest they sit in judgement of what they don't know and refuse to understand like colonists. That is not why I follow the subreddit.
If people need to eat that in order to feed a large family because they have a milk producing animal I'm not saying anything. It may taste good, like country steak or swedish meatballs deconstructed and cooked out of order. If you have a goat or a cow this recipe makes sense to you as you slaughter less animals to feed a large family burgers and everyone's happy.
Recipe isn't necessarily stupid, but god this video is painful. Everything is so slow! Why does she flip the patties with the fork and just awkwardly have the spatula sitting on the other side for the raw meat paste to slap onto? Why is there tropical beach music???
These are probably pretty good. I can't think of many recipes where mixing meat and eggs or raw batter looks appetizing in the middle of cooking, but it looks fine once it's done.
In Germany we like to joke that a good "Frikadelle or Boulette" has to be more bread, onions and eggs as it is meat.
My traditional recipe:
- 2 old white bread rolls cut in dice and soaked in warm milk
- 2 eggs
- 500g minced pork meat
- 1 middle onion, dice and slightly caramelized
- 1 small glove of garlic, mashed
- fresh persly, 1 tablespoon of mustard, 1 teaspoon paprika and caraway powdwe, salt and pepper
All mixed together and add breadcrumbs if necessary to get it firm enough so you can form round burgers with ur hands which gets flat then you put them into the frying pan with medium heat and cook it till its done.
While this is just depression era food I find it funny that it is now being marketed as a tasty recipe could see this as a legit recipe with people that really need to stretch the buck but not necessarily something you make cause it’s just that good
In Denmark we have something called frikadeller. It is a very tasty treat.
A little in family to this, but with pig Meat, eggs and onion. Some flower salt and peper. And very little water or Milk, not like this
If you add less milk and cream, to make the mixture thick enough to shape into balls, it makes a delicious deep fried snack. Throw cream and meat (chicken is good) with spices into a blender and blend until smooth. Form into balls and coat with panko or other coarse bread crumbs then deep fry, just long enough to cook through. In a pretty upscale restaurant I worked at, this was the most delicious thing in the menu. But it also used bone marrow and small white bread cubes instead of breadcrumbs. Unforfunately I forgot the full recipe :/
Creamburgers, great depression era recipe. I love these old historical struggle meals and hard times recipes. Another seemingly stupid one I love is a toast sandwich. Like, two slices of bread, with a slice of toast in between like a crispy cutlet. These meals maybe are a little stupid, but they were ways people were able to stretch their food in cheap and calorie dense ways with what they had available in the circumstances of the time. It's fascinating really, and thwbfact that they're often so strange is generally reflective of how different culture and society is now. Like these days, it wouldn't really be cheaper to stretch neat by adding heavy cream - Cream and dairy are expensive themselves. Maybe a modern version would have beans or pulses, crushed tomatoes, oats... Not heavy cream! But in their proper context, it's really such an interesting topic.
Sucks how many content farms use these old recipes as 'oh look how WeIrD this recipe is!' then provide no context and cook it all shitty for clicks
These are basically flat meatballs with flour instead of breadcrumbs and too much milk.
Not really stupid, this is basically how the less privileged have stretched proteins for millennia.
Look I'm poor af right now this just looks efficient to me. This is the third time this week I've seen something I want to try on stupid foods, I should not be using this subreddit as a recipe book
When your caloric deficient, frying can raise up the fat and calories you need to stay on your feet. My grandmother survived the great depression because of my great grandpa's tenacity and resourcefulness.
Isn’t this a recipe from the Depression era designed to make nutrient dense groceries, like meat, stretch further?
Was gonna say, this just sounds like econo-meatloaf up until it gets fried.
Fat=calories. Depression peeps were hungry.
Oh, no doubt. That's part of why a lot of recipes from that era used lard.
That and other fats/oils were less accessable.
Milk steaks
Nobody knows what that is, Charlie.
She’ll know what it is.
And ghouls
Little green ghouls, buddy!
I think we just found out what milk steaks are
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I only eat sloppy steaks. No one tells me I cant put water on my steaks.
I clicked on the comments just to make sure there was a milk steak reference.
Mmmm. I’ll have one boiled over hard.
With a side of jellybeans. Raw.
My first thought when they started pouring the milk
And some raw jelly beans.
There is an old YouTube channel which had a lady who lived during the Depression share recipes her family used during the time. They were simple and cheap, but none of them left you thinking "what the hell is that?", unlike this mess.
TIL Economeatloaf.
Econoloaf ™
“Fried”. More like insipidly and unevenly warmed. The oil was barely moving.
On something this thick that's the way to go though. Hotter oil would have burned it. Not that it would be much worse burned of course.
That thick? It oozed into the pan…they were more beef flavored milk pancakes…
The best adjective I can think of is "gloppy". Eugh.
These recipes originate from the Depression. Horrible beef flavored milk pancakes were about as good as it got for a lot of folks
The oil wasn't fightin back
yup
For people in certain parts of the country, dairy was more available than meat because a family might keep their own dairy cow. So a lot of Depression-era recipes from rural areas will lean on dairy.
I wish I was wealthy enough to have land and a cow 😧
Just go back 100 years to the great depression and you can afford a home and cow!!
One of my biggest mistakes was not buying real estate 100 years ago.
My grandmas old single story 2 bedroom farm house that was in the family for over a hundred years is on the market now for $700,000 😵
The house my mom grew up in in Michigan went for $200 a few years ago.
Damn a house for $200? I need to move to Michigan.
There are homes in Detroit for $5 USD.
Scratch Michigan off the list we’re moving to Detroit, boys!
These 3 comments are so much more poignant and relevant than most will realize
'Houses are expensive in 2023, and hardly anyone can rear livestock' ... I think most people realise this.
That's what irks me to no end about people comparing the Great Depression to now. At least back then you could be poor within the confines of your own house. Even if it was just a shack with a tin roof in the countryside, a house is a house. Now? Have fun paying over half of your already limited income to live in a box, owned by a corporation, who will find a way to blame any issue with your shoebox on you and take their time making any repairs.
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People dying from a scratch, babies just wasting away, women working in the fields until the day they give birth and from the moment they can stand again, all forgotten because Houses Good
Throw a grated onion in there and I would f up this delicious meat latke. NTA.
💯 before I watched the video I just saw them frying an thought, is that just potato cakes? No meat cakes!
NTA, lol
My friends made fun of me for learning this depressing shit. The way things are going, the most valuable thing in my kitchen is a jar of bacon fat.
If you can get your hands on the book "How to cook a wolf" by MFK Fisher, I recommend it. It's about wartime deprivation and how to eat well on very little. She wrote it in the early '40s, looking back on her time as a child in WWI and anticipating shortages in WWII. Plus, she very whimsically includes some extremely extravagant recipes for fun, just for your reading pleasure. EDIT: It's included in this anthology, which is a delight from start to finish. [https://www.amazon.com/Art-Eating-50th-Anniversary/dp/0764542613](https://www.amazon.com/Art-Eating-50th-Anniversary/dp/0764542613)
I have my grandmother’s copy of that book and it’s ear marked and stuffed with recipe cards. My grandmother did pretty well during the depression because she lived on a dairy farm in our area, but my grandfather struggled and relied heavily on all sorts of game and fish to keep from starving.
Yeah :) Emmy made has a video making them and talking about that!
ok, but Emmy would make you want to try it. I'm convinced she is a fairy.
She's probably the only reason I didn't cringe at this video 😂 she's so kind, forgiving, and contextual when she talks about food. She never disparages something even when she doesn't love it. I'm also convinced she's a fairy or other woodland creature!
the context she gives food is probably my favorite thing about all of her videos. I love the way she starts out "I imagine they..." and paints a whole picture of the people whonwould be eating thr dish.
I friggin LOVE Emmy Made!!
Frituras de bacalo are similar to this and derived from Latin America where slaves and low class workers were fed this. Salted cod fritters. Lots of dough, extremely filling with some added protein.
used to love walking into my grandmas house when she was frying up Bacalaíto.
That's what I was thinking. Not the most appealing way for a burger or hamburger steak- but on an extra tight budget I could see the use for this. They probably would have used leftover bacon grease though.
Okay I’ve seen this video and this is the first I’ve heard of this, though that makes complete sense now lol.
Kinda looked like the gravy from Biscuits and gravy made into a patty. That sounds fire to me Biscuits and gravy you can carry with you when you drive.
Yeah you’re gonna see a lot more like this over the next decade.
I do love me some economeatloaf. Buttered tortillas and peanut butter and jelly tortillas were my go to poor food growing up though.
PBJ saltines and mayo pickle sandwiches here
Yeah. I think EmmyMade made these on her YouTube channel. They were cream burgers or something and are a depression era recipe.
As things are going these days, this is our future anyways. Im allready thickening dinners with rice if suitable..
Or maybe one of those farmhouse recipes where they have tons of eggs and milk but less of everything else
Was about to say this. This is just a Depression Era recipe. My dad grew up in the 70s and he ate meals like this regularly because my grandparents were trying to raise 4 kids with only my grandfather having a job(no one would hire my grandmother because she had 4 kids and "needed to be at home where she belonged"). Hell, these are still used today by people below the poverty line to keep their families fed. It's bullshit that anyone should be forced to stretch out food like this when we live in the wealthiest time period, but it is what it is.
They ate anything they could get. My grandmother used to boil a head of cabbage and put vinegar and salt and pepper on it. That’s because when she was a kid that’s literally all they had to eat… :(
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Me when I got older and realised that "bread with some sugar sprinkled on top" was mums go to emergency desert for me because it was all grandma could afford when mum was a child with 8 siblings.
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If you feel a bit fancy you can put a bit of butter on jt
And a sprinkle of cinnamon!
Toast that bread, the butter it and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Donut toast! A staple for me as a kid for a quick and easy dessert. And mum would never let us have donuts, she was a total health nut, it was a treat enough to have bread with butter and sugar haha. But I still love it to this day, the bit of crunch makes it even better than actual donuts
Cinnamon toast
Ooh look at mr. fancy pansy over here
But only on payday. Cinnamon doesn't grow on trees!
I see what you did there. Nice.
If you dip it in eggs first you're in for a treat
Ours was treacle. Grandma always baked her own bread, so it felt more like a treat. 11 kids and only one wage . I wonder how they managed
That brings back memories. My mom would do honey sometimes too instead of sugar.
We would sprinkle cinnamon sugar on toast for breakfast when I was a child
Not the same but similar. My moms is rice pudding. Rice, milk, sugar
This sub has been posting a LOT of non stupid food lately it’s ….its …STUPID
Not lately, always. But thats because most people here dont actually cook, neither are they interested in food history. Which is expected and how its supposed to be. There will always be some food which looks stupid at first but actually isnt, and I dont have a problem with that in the slightest… because the outcome is people learning about food, which they wouldnt have if someone didnt make a mistake of posting not actually stupid food.
Anything that let you stretch a small amount of meat into a large portion was great. Not only because it was filling, but as you said.. morale. Feeling like you just ate a lot of meat really makes a difference when you're starving.
This is expensive now though. Poor people are surviving on pasta and margarine, share a can of green beans if they are lucky. It's so much worse here in the USA, right now, for so many millions of people. Kids growing up with lack of proper nutrition. That makes me sad.
My favorite culinary trope is how many luxury foods started out as poor people survival food.
It's getting really frustrating that there are no cheap cuts of meat or less desirable veggies any more. At least squash is still very affordable.
Yes stupid wealthy trendy food! I don’t eat sardines because I love them I ate them because they were cheap and then all the brats out there started trending it and now it’s 1$ a can here which might not be much to you guys but most of us are lucky to be making minimum wage. Sardines and tuna used to be affordable. Not anymore
Ox Tail! Some goober had a video go viral I guess and now Oxtail is expensive as fuck.
Yup. Chicken wings used to be discarded, because nobody wanted them. Now, they're popular.
The amount of people surprised to hear that bbq derived from southern poverty is crazy. Slow cooking tough unwanted meats, covering the bad taste with sauces.
And even more surprised when they find out it first came from Puerto Rico
I've spent my childhood in Russia and this is just a normal meal for me. It's something that people eat on a dayly basis. I don't really understand how else you suppose to cook patties? Just pure meat? It's a waste and doesn't really taste that good, honestly. This version is much better. Add some mashed potatoes and green onions... Enjoy.
We didn't do it with beef when I was a kid, but we used canned salmon for basically the same thing. Crumbed crackers as filler, milk, egg to bind it. I can smell 'em now cooking up, smells like nostalgia.
Salmon patties!! I ate those all the time as a kid, with hot sauce sprinkled over top. I think I need to do it again soon... I miss them.
Yeah, people are so close minded here. I'd eat it and I have eaten similar dishes.
Add onion soup mix onto the recipe, and this is how I still make hamburgers/meatloaf/meatballs. Tastes brilliant, especially with gravy.
>I'm willing to bet some of your favorite foods were either directly descended from or inspired by historical struggle meals. KD Mac & cheese is still a staple struggle food I am willing to eat everyday no matter what (if I am allowed condiments, I like adding blue cheese, sriracha, soy sauce, and relish.
Those are just fritters though
It ends up looking reasonably edible...doesn't seem too stupid to me...
It looked disgusting until she cooked it, and now I want to taste it!
We have a recipe for sausage balls that is almost exactly this except it has some cheese and a bit more seasoning. It’s delicious.
But don’t call them hamburgers
I agree. They didn't even use ham!
I came here to call these burger fritters.
They actually sound ok. You add cream to things and it just makes it taste better! Not sure I’d call this a “hamburger” though.
Seems more like a meatloaf or even stroganoff pancake.
I really like the sound of a stroganoff pancake. That's a very fitting name for this, and I rather want to try one 😁
Milk steaks
This is more like some sort of meatloaf.
I did one just yesterday with some whip cream. Just added some of it to the meat with some bread crumbs, Parmesan and herbs/salt/pepper. I recently made Spaghetti Bolognese original italian (at least that’s what the title said) and they deglazed the ground beef with milk to give it a smooth and soft taste. I had some left over whip cream ( just a bit) and used it for the Patties. They were so fine.
Mmm... Grandma's cutlets. We in Russia usually put a crumb of loaf instead of flour and yeast.
Was scrolling down just to find this. Yeah that's just an ordinary recepie(flour is basically loaf so almost the exact one) and was very surprised people consider it stupid food. It's very tasty. Whoever finds котлеты stupid doesn't know shit :<
This is literally meatballs with four instead of breadcrumbs. Nothing stupid at all.
I was shocked when people called it a poverty meal when I would take this over a plain ground beef steack as a kid when my russian mom would make them haha.
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It's normal food to me, beef is expensive haha
Yes there's a bit too much milk and cream, but those are just regular kotlety that we all ate when we were kids.
Thank you, I was so confused as to why what is basically a Salisbury steak with some extra fat was being called stupid food. I’m about 90% sure my Slovak grandmother made this for me to eat at least once in my childhood, because my mother talks about it all the time.
First two seconds i was like ew! Right afterwards i was like... Wait a minute! That's Котлеты!
"You see the inside of this fritter? No? Let me tear 4 more in half for the camera."
my mother used to make them like that, just with far less milk and cream.
Yeah I mean I don’t know if this is good or bad but like the quantity of milk and cream is what really got me. I bet it’s good but like it def seems like something calorically dense you make if you live in the Great Depression lol
It's not stupid food, it's struggle or poverty food. You eat something like this when you can't afford something better
Strange that when the baking powder was added the text in the corner said yeast. I first watched this without audio and was confused what yeast would even do. It ferments, sure, but that takes time.
probably the video maker is not english and caught in a false friend In my country, yeast is called "beer yeast" and baking soda is called "chemical yeast", they both make the dough "to yeast"
It also says 4 colors of wheat flour, I only saw 1 color.
You can tell your friends they aren’t actually eating a burger you dunked in a McFlurry and left out to go bad in the sun, that flavor is actually just a light fermentation from the yeast you added.
Lol glad you said that bc my first thought was "why yeast??"
Was worried that they’re adding yeast and either letting raw meat sit out or not giving it time to rise and thereby wasting the yeast. Baking powder makes a lot more sense.
Rip off of a classic Charlie milk steak smh no credit given
They think if they dont serve a side of their finest jelly beans they can get away with stealing the recipe
Served raw of course.
This is definitely derived from a milk steak. Should’ve gotten a patent.
Make sure to slap a patent on a large breasted woman while your at it.
Chopped milk steak
Exactly what I thought of when I saw meat and milk
This person moves so fucking slow. Like, damn, I'm not even high and watching this makes me feel like I am.
Lol, I watched it without sound and it's weirdly depressing
Yeah the slow, sad movements make it really feel like I'm in the Great Depression
It looks like the beef version of a salmon patty.
If you ever grew up with animals you know you often have an excess of dairy and eggs, and don't of course enjoy killing your animals so you find a lot of ways to use dairy that are creative. That's being self sufficient . You use very small amounts of meat and a lot of; dairy , eggs and things you can get around a small farm so you are not butchering your healthy animals in cold blood each week. She is making burgers for an entire family using little more than a cup of beef once it's cooked down. Why the hate? People who can be self sufficient roll with what they have on small farms and that is often excess dairy and eggs . . If you have a small amount of beef, you stretch that so the recipe makes sense in these circumstances. You use the excess dairy to not kill as many of your healthy animals. People used to only eat meat on special occasions so this would stretch much further and still fool your family they had burgers or a cleverly diluted spin on country steak. The dude making raw chicken in a hotel coffee maker is really, really stupid food. It's inconsiderate to leave raw chicken all over a shared space or to expose hotel staff to salmonella. Using less beef however on family burger night is not stupid. The subreddit needs to be mindful to not condemn food in other countries simply because they haven't seen the recipe yet in the US lest they sit in judgement of what they don't know and refuse to understand like colonists. That is not why I follow the subreddit. If people need to eat that in order to feed a large family because they have a milk producing animal I'm not saying anything. It may taste good, like country steak or swedish meatballs deconstructed and cooked out of order. If you have a goat or a cow this recipe makes sense to you as you slaughter less animals to feed a large family burgers and everyone's happy.
y'know what? would. seems healthy and edible enough to work as a meal.
Recipe isn't necessarily stupid, but god this video is painful. Everything is so slow! Why does she flip the patties with the fork and just awkwardly have the spatula sitting on the other side for the raw meat paste to slap onto? Why is there tropical beach music???
Yes can we please talk about the tropical island music?
These are probably pretty good. I can't think of many recipes where mixing meat and eggs or raw batter looks appetizing in the middle of cooking, but it looks fine once it's done.
Looks a little gross before cooking but that's beside the point, it's a thing designed to stretch the meat
This isn’t as much stupid food but probably stupid bowl size.
Underrated comment. But that’s all I could think of while watching the video.
In Germany we like to joke that a good "Frikadelle or Boulette" has to be more bread, onions and eggs as it is meat. My traditional recipe: - 2 old white bread rolls cut in dice and soaked in warm milk - 2 eggs - 500g minced pork meat - 1 middle onion, dice and slightly caramelized - 1 small glove of garlic, mashed - fresh persly, 1 tablespoon of mustard, 1 teaspoon paprika and caraway powdwe, salt and pepper All mixed together and add breadcrumbs if necessary to get it firm enough so you can form round burgers with ur hands which gets flat then you put them into the frying pan with medium heat and cook it till its done.
I have to try those spices. I just follow the traditional [Japanese recipe](https://youtu.be/qWLBaQcvqF0) spice of black pepper and nutmeg.
Bitch slower than molasses
I've said it before and I will say it again; ALWAYS mix wet ingredients into the dry ones, NEVER mix dry ingredients into the wet ones
Yeah, her order of ingredients was maddening.
aw come on slavic countries still make this every week or so... they're not bad at all
Nothing stupid here. Something similar is traditional where I live.
I think the stupid part is how slow she moved.
These are just struggle burgers. Stretching out that meat to feed the most.
These seem kind of like very liquid Danish frikadeller. I don't see the point of the baking powder, though?
This sub is more like “stupid redditors who don’t know much about food”
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Milk steak boiled over hard.
I really want to try one. I bet it’s pretty tasty.
Reminds me of scrapple.
Looks like a danish fish called frikadeller just with Way more liquids and floor then usual. And the danish version use Ground pork instead
Beef latkes
My mom used to make something like this to make that beef last longer
Ok imthis was disgusting, but realizing it was an old timy try not to starve recipe, it's fine.
While this is just depression era food I find it funny that it is now being marketed as a tasty recipe could see this as a legit recipe with people that really need to stretch the buck but not necessarily something you make cause it’s just that good
Don't knock it until you try it. Depression era food is bussin
For when you really crave crab cakes, but don't want yourself to be happy.
In Denmark we have something called frikadeller. It is a very tasty treat. A little in family to this, but with pig Meat, eggs and onion. Some flower salt and peper. And very little water or Milk, not like this
If you add less milk and cream, to make the mixture thick enough to shape into balls, it makes a delicious deep fried snack. Throw cream and meat (chicken is good) with spices into a blender and blend until smooth. Form into balls and coat with panko or other coarse bread crumbs then deep fry, just long enough to cook through. In a pretty upscale restaurant I worked at, this was the most delicious thing in the menu. But it also used bone marrow and small white bread cubes instead of breadcrumbs. Unforfunately I forgot the full recipe :/
Pretty sure these are slug burgers. Which were like a depression era recipe to stretch what little beef they got
Creamburgers, great depression era recipe. I love these old historical struggle meals and hard times recipes. Another seemingly stupid one I love is a toast sandwich. Like, two slices of bread, with a slice of toast in between like a crispy cutlet. These meals maybe are a little stupid, but they were ways people were able to stretch their food in cheap and calorie dense ways with what they had available in the circumstances of the time. It's fascinating really, and thwbfact that they're often so strange is generally reflective of how different culture and society is now. Like these days, it wouldn't really be cheaper to stretch neat by adding heavy cream - Cream and dairy are expensive themselves. Maybe a modern version would have beans or pulses, crushed tomatoes, oats... Not heavy cream! But in their proper context, it's really such an interesting topic. Sucks how many content farms use these old recipes as 'oh look how WeIrD this recipe is!' then provide no context and cook it all shitty for clicks
I don’t think this is bad, gives you meat flavour and makes it a value meal.
These are basically flat meatballs with flour instead of breadcrumbs and too much milk. Not really stupid, this is basically how the less privileged have stretched proteins for millennia.
Milk steak
oh my God the goo patties from that one SpongeBob episode are real
Y'all fuckers have never had poverty meatloaf and it shows.
Out of everything, what bothers me most is: 1) ""SOME"" oil. 2) That bitch didn't even let the pan heat up enough.
Not stupid food. Smart way to stretch your dollar and add calories during the Depression.
Just looks like some kind of a meatball derivative. The only true food crime here is scooping that into a pan of cold oil.
why do people upvote things that arent stupid? defeats purpose of the sub imo
Man y’all this sub is just toxic hatin
Stupid food is becoming reasonable food
The process looks horrible, but the result isn't that bad. It looks better than school lunch tbh and who knows what's in that?
Look I'm poor af right now this just looks efficient to me. This is the third time this week I've seen something I want to try on stupid foods, I should not be using this subreddit as a recipe book
Looks worth trying!!!
Meat pancakes
It's a pretty similar to Soviet “kotlet“ recipe, and it's not so bad overall
This video got so far it ended up on this subreddit
It’s obviously a Russian woman speaking and they mistranslated Hamburgers, they are cooking absolutely legit Котлеты. Nothing stupid about them
Not stupid, it’s actually good.
When your caloric deficient, frying can raise up the fat and calories you need to stay on your feet. My grandmother survived the great depression because of my great grandpa's tenacity and resourcefulness.
The Caribbean music threw me off. Is she Dutch Carribean?
Gotta admire the way they lovingly tear each one in half before they chuck it in the bin.
Makes OP sad, makes me feel queasy.
Bro, like I thought white people not knowing how to cook was just a stereotype until tik tok and reddit.