Hillbilly housewife recipes

Whenever we need an easy weeknight dessert or just have some leftover bread that needs using up, I whip up a batch of this bread pudding. You can use any type of leftover bread for this. Just toast it and cut or tear it into small chunks. This recipe is from my 35 Homemade Bread […]

3 Pounds beef round steak, 1/2″ thick 1/2 Cup flour 2 Teaspoons salt 1/8 Teaspoon freshly-ground black pepper 2 Medium onions, thinly sliced, and separated into rings 2 Cans sliced mushrooms – (4 oz ea), drained (or 1/2 lb fresh mushrooms, sliced) 1 Can condensed beef broth – (10 1/2 oz) 1-1/2 Cups sour […]

My grandmother used to make what she called cornmeal gravy… anyone ever hear of it? If so, could you please pass on how to make it? Many thanks From the Hillbilly Housewife: I had a chat with some of the women on my husband’s side of the family and they agree with Lawana’s comment below. […]

I’m looking for a blueberry buckle recipe from twenty five years ago. I remember that it had a topping on it like a crumb mixture as for a pie. – Thalia From The Hillbilly Housewife Buckles are a favorite around here. They are the cousins of coffee cakes and the blueberry kind is my very […]

Are convenience foods ruining your budget and robbing you of your hard earned cash? Fight back with these great recipes. Create your own convenience foods, and pocket monstrous savings in the process. Begin by substituting your Homemade Granola for expensive Zowie Wowie Sugar Puffs. Then move on to more ambitious projects like Biscuit Mix, Flavored […]

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I am looking for a bar cookie recipe called yum-yums. The main ingredients included brown sugar, egg, vanilla, flour and walnuts. After it cooks, a mixture of cream and powdered sugar is spread over the cooked recipe and then is covered in coconut. Lost this time honored recipe. Can anyone help? Gail Do you […]

If you are a regular on the site, you already know that some of my favorite frugal breakfast items are homemade muffins and oatmeal. Pricewise almost nothing can beat either one of them, but if you are looking for a little more variety for that all-important first meal of the day, try some of these […]

When the Great Depression hit, many people could barely afford food. People had to get very creative with what they did have. They had to make do. Because of their hard times we now can find recipes of The Great Depression to help us when we are on hard times. People make depression meals even