21 FORGOTTEN 1950s Poor Man Breakfasts Grandma Cooked Before Sunrise

In 1953 a pound of plain cornmeal cost about 12 cents, and the corn in a box of corn flakes cost more than twice as much. These are 21 breakfasts that working families cooked before sunrise in the 1940s and 50s, from coal camps and farm kitchens to city walk-ups: bacon grease on bread, coffee soup, hominy and eggs, clabber and cornbread, egg in a hole, hoecakes, fried apples and biscuits, tomato gravy, red-eye gravy, chocolate gravy, milk toast, fried cornmeal mush with molasses, creamed chipped beef on toast (SOS), and, at number one, biscuits and sawmill gravy. For every dish you get the memory, what it cost in 1953 and today, and the full recipe right on your screen. CHAPTERS 0:00 The sack and the box, 1953 1:15 No. 21 Bacon Grease on Bread 2:50 No. 20 Coffee Soup 4:27 No. 19 Rice with Milk and Sugar 6:01 No. 18 Water Gravy and Biscuits 7:33 No. 17 Fried Bread Dough 9:12 No. 16 Hominy and Eggs 10:56 No. 15 Clabber and Cornbread 12:34 No. 14 Egg in a Hole 14:07 No. 13 Leftover Potato Cakes 15:45 No. 12 Oatmeal with Bacon Drippings 17:25 No. 11 Hoecakes with Syrup 19:03 Halfway through breakfast 19:46 No. 10 Fried Apples and Biscuits 21:18 No. 9 Tomato Gravy 22:54 No. 8 Fried Egg Sandwich 24:29 No. 7 Buttermilk Biscuits and Sorghum 26:14 No. 6 Red-Eye Gravy and Biscuits 27:52 No. 5 Chocolate Gravy and Biscuits 29:27 No. 4 Milk Toast 31:01 No. 3 Fried Cornmeal Mush with Molasses 32:45 No. 2 Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast (SOS) 34:20 No. 1 Biscuits and Sawmill Gravy 36:15 Clearing the breakfast table Prices: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Retail Prices of Food 1953-54 (Bulletin 1183); Morris County Library historic newspaper prices (1952-54). Today's values converted with the CPI. Dish totals are estimates. Footage: public-domain films (Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm (1963); Wartime Nutrition (1943); Cooking Terms and What They Mean; Kitchen Magic (1948); steel industry film; Original Pocahontas Coal; Someone's in the Kitchen (1960); The Children Must Learn (1940); And So They Live (1940); Food for Fighters (1943); Plantation System in Southern Life (1950)) via the Prelinger Archives / Internet Archive; licensed stock from Pexels, Pixabay and Mixkit. What did your family eat for breakfast when money was tight? Tell us in the comments. #CheapMeals #PoorManMeals #ForgottenRecipes #VintageRecipes #DepressionEraRecipes #GrandmasCooking #RetroFood #1970sFood