Stop Frying Eggs in Oil! The Lost Depression-Era Trick

How did Depression-era families fry eggs without vegetable oil? In the 1930s, most American kitchens didn't cook with bottled oil. Fat came from the barn, the butcher and the milk pail. Here are 5 forgotten old-fashioned ways to cook eggs without oil: the cream-fried egg, the steam trick, the egg in a frame, ash-roasted eggs, and the grease can that sat by every grandma's stove. Real 1930s kitchen history and frugal Great Depression cooking tricks, some worth bringing back today. In this video we count down five egg-cooking methods our grandparents and great-grandparents relied on before bottled oil took over the grocery aisle. One turns cream into crisp, nutty brown-butter lace right in the skillet. One needs nothing but water and a heavy lid. One saves stale bread from the trash. One doesn't need a stove at all. And one sat quietly by nearly every American stove for generations, until it disappeared almost overnight. #DepressionEraCooking #FrugalCooking #CastIron #VintageRecipes #OldFashioned #AmericanHistory #1930s #grandmaskitchen