And that Boomer went on to manage a Fortune 500 company in the 90s! And his grandkids are just as confused at this recipe.

Oh this is actually so precious. I love recipes that are clearly a result of rationing or Depression-era poverty. People may have struggled but they still lived.

Man, I gotta hand it to the women back then. Necessity + mother = invention🍰👩‍👦

"My baby WILL have SOMETHING to celebrate so HELP ME GOD-"

Quite a lot of recipes during WW II were invented by companies producing rations in order to make their products more versatile and, thus, more marketable. So this was probably invented by a company that sold powdered eggs.

That's... Oddly accurate. Hauntingly so, for some reason

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What haunts me more is all the recipes we've lost from just not making the ingredients anymore like true salt pork. We also have way better manufacturing now, and can have things like perfectly bleached ground flour so many old recipes won't taste quite the same either..It's like being an imposter in another time period.

​@@ElectricRose9001 Truly, we are the imposters, not the crewmates.

​​@@ElectricRose9001 And this is exactly why there's an entire cottage industry in producing this stuff, or making KZfaq videos about the process so YOU TOO can experience that flavour (or close enough) Unless it's a specific product made by a company in the past that doesn't make that thing anymore for some reason, these recipes are rarely truly lost, they just need a bit of extra elbow grease (or lard)

We are obviously related - same grandmother.

Things like this are why I stockpile shelf stable food now. It's lookin' a little world war 3ish out and I like to eat 👀

@lauraharrod6616 Yes ma'am. Sams Club loves me. I turned a spare bedroom into a pantry. We have food that has super long shelf life and chest freezer as well. I'm also a farm girl. I raise my own veggies. I can walk into a field and pick a salad. I can pick edible mushrooms and berries. I know how to find yellow root and ginseng. Most people have no idea what those things are or what they can do. I remember all the old home remedies as well. We lived a good hour from emergency care. So you learned.

In arkansas we had abundant poke sorrel lambs quarters, squirrel😊, spice bush, blackberries elder berries, morels and. puffballs, catfish ( but I did NOT like them ) rose hips, wild honey. And more. Of course we did not depend on them, but it was enjoyable looking for them and new plants . 😅😅

@user-yq2rn2hy8p In good Old Kentucky morrels were called Hickory Chickens. I really never knew why. I hated them. Everyone acted like they were truffles snuffed out of the ground in France by pigs. I think they're disgusting. Elderberries and huckleberries I can handle. If made into a pie or my grandmother's candy. We called it Tough Jack. It was jam boiled down until it was very thick. She'd then pull it with spoons. Basically taffy. It was good. I could eat fresh blackberries but hated those cooked in anyway. Living like I did is why I don't eat cheese or drink milk or eat butter. When you milk cows and make cheese and your arms fall off from churning you learn to detest certain things. And nothing stinks like a cellar full of cheese aging that had to be rubbed and turned. Yuck.

So true!!!

My first thought was it's going to be like biting into a sponge.

I was imagining a pool noodle.

Like biting thermocol 🫠

I... will not ask.

of all the places to see a mgr revengeance reference i was not expecting one to be on a b dylan hollis short

... makes me wonder what recipes will come from the current conflicts we're seeing ... 🤔😕

My grandmother had some recipes from back when she had to stretch a dollar back during Vietnam. We still use them in my house. One she called Poor Man's Stew is a favorite of mine over mashed potatoes.

​@@catandrobbyflores can we get the recipe please?

@hardiehardley here it is: poor man's stew 1 pound ground beef 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt 1/8 teaspoon onion powder Dash of pepper 1 can vegetable beef soup per pound of meat In a medium to large fry pan, cook beef until brown with garlic salt, onion powder, and pepper. Drain grease. Add soup and water and continue cooking until heated through. I usually serve this with mashed potatoes so the juices get soaked up, and it tastes really good, either served on the potatoes or to the side. With dinner rolls or garlic bread.

As someone who worked at goodwill with all the old lady stuff donated it kinda always smells vaguely like eggs

That is a perfect description of powdered eggs. I've taken that crap backpacking. Not worth dealing with the smell to have eggs for breakfast.

I can't believe how accurate this description is.

Also used to work at Goodwill. I lol'ed. XD

Powdered milk isn't any better.

Baking is 100% a science, and recipes like this that peek behind the curtain are my favorite.

Remember; baking is a form of chemistry! Therefore, you're right, figuratively and literally. ​@@benjaminoechsli1941

But you wouldn't have butter because of rationing. Otherwise it would have gone into the cake to make it less bone-dry.

@gregoryschmidt1233 you are right about that. Very little butter available. But If you had even a little bit or cream from a morning milking adding the wet ingredients just before serving made a bigger differance than during baking. Also doing that gave goods a bit longer shelf life without refrigeration. Like putting the butter on toast.

Lol same

That's a LOT of eggs. With one raw egg being about 2 ounces, a powdered egg would be much smaller. This recipe called for 1.25 cups!!! Eggs. Milk, sugar. Baking powder and cinnamon, bit of salt. How does that become a cake? Wow

The cornstarch in the powdered sugar probably helps, but also the lower proportion of water to proteins than you would normally get when cooking whole, unprocessed eggs

Was just about to say that lol

Completely forgot about Pillow Pets

memory unlocked

…full grow adult here to say I still use the one I got for my fifth birthday…😅

it's been quite a while since i last heard about those.

We were lucky here on the states, even our ration cards weren't nearly as restrictive as that of the UK or Germany, let alone the Soviets anywhere or the Japanese and the occupied states.

It's a World War II cake, so it's not far off. The recipe was certainly made due to extremely limited ingredients.

No ear perks, so it couldn't have been that good! 😅

​@@EmpressLizard81, Exactly!❗️

"actually"

Nawful= not awful

Get one of those bed shaking devices to mimick the feeling of bombs falling around you and I think you got the full experience

Just made sure not to do it at elderly home.

😂😂😂😂 Why am I picturing all this with someone shouting DIVE, DIVE!!

@@juppeli1234 Why? It's probably the most entertaining the folks there got in ages.

You put a single Bluetooth speaker playing air raid sirens. And then you get another _pair_ of Bluetooth speakers and you play the _stereo_ version of Glen Miller's song American Patrol (available on KZfaq and superior to the mono version). That's the full experience

I thought he said pillow pan

Nostalgia at it’s finest

It’s a pillow~ 🎶 It’s a pet ~ 🎶 *ITS A PILLOW PET~* 🎶

I'll bet. I was also lucky to be raised around veterans who would tell age appropriate stories that grew as we kids did. I also got the opportunity to raise my children around many elderly men and women who continued to tell stories to my wide-eyed children. I'm very proud of them and how well-rounded they are because they loved listening and learning from their elders. These recipes that Dylan shares with us really do bring back memories. I bought his book for my 85 year old Mom, who has many memories of many of her family go to war along with her own memories of the next several wars. My 8 siblings range in age from 1960 - 1980, with the oldest being 64 and the youngest 44. I remember powdered milk and rationed gas. Feeding us all had Mom using many interesting ingredients. We children never knew things were tight because Mom made everything an adventure. Mom loved going down memory lane as we read through the recipes from Dylan's book. It's a wonderful history of food that brought laughter and tears. I 100% recommend it for everyone of all ages.🎉🎉🎉

I'm part of a younger generation and I can tell you right now that when I worked at a retirement home, I met a few WW2 vets. And I was alive, granted I was a baby, when my WW2 vet grandpa was still around

My grandfather was a WWII vet. But apperently, my grandmother never had to deal with food rationing for the most part due to them growing things themselves (any my grandfather stayed stateside in logistics for most of the war, and that helped), so we didn't really have any weird ass recipe things when they were still alive. Did have the "repair, retain, and DIY" thing, though, and I definitely inherited that.

I'm almost 40 and I've met a few WWII vets. 2 was my grandfathers. 1 was a sniper and fought in Italy and I believe North Africa and he was a WWII, Vietnam and Korean vet. One of his brothers was a WWII vet and he fought in the Pacific Theater and was a POW and was in one of the Japanese Death Marches. My other grandfather was a WWII vet and was in the 82nd airborne. Than my great-grandmother's 2 brothers was SSNazis and fought on the Russian front.

Back when the country was at war and not at the mall

I would like to forget this foam, thanks.

Edible memory foam.

YOU GOT ME DYING WHILE ON THE TOILET

Water helps. Oh, and the baking powder added the bubbles

Yes, but the boxed mixes have flour in them.

I'm betting that the starch in the powdered sugar is helping

You'll never see something like this again.

@@15oClock Sure we will; we're subscribed to Dylan after all :D

The word "novel" here feels the same as when my teachers in school called me "interesting" or "unique."

😂

Go on and ask Kiki for some!

@@mkchristnerBut Kiki might’ve gotten tired of your bull so you might wanna try Keisha’s house!

Well, it can be a cake...

Tell that to the emergency war cake. I dont think there is any amount of “try” that can make THAT thing edible!

You mean add enough sugar and cinnamon.

I dunno Coal Miners cake and that WW1 cake.... those were beyond desperate. Edit: I forgot to add they needed some serious help from God!!

​@@Maeglin7936 You'd need to sell a few dozen lawyer souls to the Devil to help that bomb site of a cake.

Well, it's a wartime recipe, so you should have a mask close at hand. 😉

you could say rationing Breads creativity

War Rations , old-fashioned "Food Commodities" (Pre-SNAP) and survival food for off-grid, no-refrigeration. Apparently you can also dry the egg whites and yolks separately, but these days, they freeze-dry them.

@@princeofbohemia😂

⁠@@StephenHutchisonYes. We have yokes and whites and mixed powdered eggs. We haven’t tried freeze dried yet. We also use dried spinach which is great in soups, stews, chilis, sauces, etc. It adds a nice deep note

"from Goodwill.". 😂😂😂

*That description actually **_CURDLED MY_** NOSE; yucky. Don't think I'll **_EVER_** be able to erase the musty concept of "Goodwill eggs" from the olfactory sectors of my poor, abused brain!*

"reminds me of my summers in Columbia"

"This is POUNDAGE of sugar!"

CUPS!?!?!

Cups. CUPs?? Eight is the LOW end.

I recently tried making this! It took TWELVE CUPS to make a dough thick enough to take out of the bowl!

Sadly the family's entire sugar ration for the week already went in with the eggs

@@Sally4th_ Maybe some freshly picked strawberries.

Or liquid sugar of some kind. That amount of dryness would surely absorb moisture like those dry pellets they sell for closets.

That's a rough one! My favorite teacher (up to that point) moved away at the end of my sophomore year, and I was heartbroken. He was my performance choir teacher, and he was not only kind and supportive, an absolute sunbeam of a human, and he also never knew just how much of an impact he had on me by encouraging and challenging me through music, which helped me find an escape from a scary home life. It's hard to say goodbye to someone who impacts you like that. Let what you value about him carry forth in yourself! Think about how good he makes you feel to spend that time with him, and know that you have the power to bring more of that goodness out into the world around you. Someday in the future, you may well cross paths again, and if you share with him that how he treated you meant so much and that you carried that with you? You'll *absolutely* touch his heart! ❤

I mean, they do make butter powder 😂

@@wendy645 Almost 60 years old, and I had to look that one up. I... shouldn't have been surprised, really.

​@@wendy645 they do?! 🤯 And flour is already a powder... should've had both in this recipe! But at least it's gluten free.

I thought that too, no oil, butter, or mayonnaise.

*Excellent suggestion!*

Warm with a touch of butter is the only thought I have.

"Novel" as in out of the ordinary and somewhat interesting.

Dust explosion... yeah that's a very real possibility making this. Just a party in the kitchen with Dylan bringing the noise.

I think he needs to keep trying brands if mascara. His eyes dont look quite as irritated as they did in the last video.🎉🎉🎉

​@@alicecain4851- *Hay fever, maybe? It **_HAS BEEN_** springtime, after all!* 🌾🌹🤣🏵🌻