The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1939. Banks failed, stocks crashed, and businesses went under, causing financial strain on the masses. Understandably, this harshly affected what people ate — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 1930s farmhouse kitchen in color - Print Collector/Getty Images Quite a few staple recipes today came from the Depression era.

Vintage photo of family at breakfast - Kurt Hutton/Getty Images The Great Depression was a difficult period for tens of millions of Americans, many of whom struggled to afford even the basics. Among ...

Quite a few staple recipes today came from the Depression era. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all, and we saw some real innovation take hold when home cooks were scraping by with a dime ...