Melt a handful of White Chocolate Chips or White Melting Wafers in the microwave. Step 1: It is not a celebration without sprinkles, so let’s start with a little decoration on the Hot Vanilla Milk glass. I just know after a long night of trick-or-treating (and too much chocolate) it will be the perfect beverage to top off our Halloween night. Laurie and I thought it might be fun to do hot vanilla milk for Halloween. Even in the middle of summer, she was still asking for Olaf’s milk. Last winter, we did a Frozen-inspired Olaf’s Warm Hug Hot Vanilla Milk. One of the newer traditions we have added is Halloween Hot Vanilla Milk. We will watch a movie, carve a pumpkin, or have a “spooky” dinner. One of the fun things we do at Halloween is every night leading to Halloween, we do some sort of activity. Most of those traditions we have carried on and are now doing with our own family. We had traditions that were silly, and fun, and important. We were raised in a loving household by a mom who instilled in us a strong sense of family and tradition. It’s probably not surprising to hear from a blog called Two Sisters Crafting that family is important to us. What it was was a vehicle for nutrition and nutrients, but it wasn’t supposed to make you excited about food.” 26.Throw out the Hot Chocolate for Halloween Night and make up a batch of this delicious Halloween Hot Vanilla Milk – warm, sweet, and best of all, NO CAFFEINE. “It does not have much flavor, and it wasn’t really supposed to have much flavor. “Bland is really the operative word here,” Coe continued. It’s a mixture of milk, flour, salt and either butter or margarine, with maybe a little bit of pepper…You mix all these ingredients into a tray and bake it, and you have a kind of like thick, mushy, bland casserole.” “Then you make white sauce,” Coe told San Francisco’s local public radio, KALW, “which was the sauce which is poured over everything for budget meals during the Great Depression. As were the boiled carrots, for that matter. According to culinary historians Jane Ziegelman and Andy Coe, coauthors of A Square Meal, Depression-era spaghetti was boiled for a good 25 minutes - you know, to make it nice and mushy. Unfortunately, this meal from the Depression era would not look as beautiful as the carrots and spaghetti dish above. Now tuck your napkin into your collar, because it’s time to dive into the strangest meals to come out of the Depression era. ![]() We should be proud of our ancestors for making it through a decade of financial turmoil and coming out on the other side, not necessarily unscathed, but having learned what hard work and determination can do to help one achieve the “American Dream.” These aren’t the most appetizing of meals, but even so, many of them have been handed down through generations and are still made by those who know of the hardships their parents and grandparents faced throughout the ’30s. Remember, people were working with what was available to them and ingredients that could be bought for cheap. ![]() We’ve compiled a list of some of the oddest recipes to come out of the Great Depression. We probably wouldn’t eat most of them today - however, it was these meals that kept America going. It was during this period in time that bare-bones recipes were created. For an entire decade, spending and investment was at an all-time low, which meant unemployment was high and the majority of American families were surviving on next to nothing. stock market crashed and launched the country into the worst economic downturn in its history.
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