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  • I'm going to dedicate a new face for Clara - ?

  • I want cookie...

    

  • seriously, why the hell would you dislike this video.... people these days.

  • i love these videos =]

    i had no idea my great grandmother was teaching me how to make all this stuff from when she was a kid during the same time til i saw all these videos lol

  • Thumbs up if collegehumour brought you here!

  • I feel so happy to have found you. My mom taught me to make chicken soup & how to stretch that Sunday dinner to last the week. She 16 & the only one working in an extended family of 6.

  • just love hearing stories from elders and looking at old pictrs

  • haha that is soo cool! i would love to have cookies for breakfast!

  • Sugar cookies for breakfast? Doesn't sound so depressing to me!

  • Collage humor brought me here

  • Thank you Clara! I love watching you cook. My grandmother made the fig cookies every year for St. Joseph Day. You brought good memories. Be Blessed!

  • She's Lovely what a Sweet Person

  • This woman is so sweet. I wish she was my grandmother. :3

  • This is so awesome and I'm using these recipes

  • Clara for President!

    

  • Thank you for sharing with us.

  • I always enjoy watching how positive you are Clara.

  • I'm a 30 year old Infantryman in the US Army and I'm crying my eyes out watching this. She reminds me of my grand father who I grew up next door to. He's 93 now. What a great generation of people.

  • clara you are amazing! I wish i could spend a day cooking with you. Alot of your meals is how we cook here in my house. We have 8 people living under one roof. Times are hard and we barely scrape by but i think alot of your recipes are going to help! God bless you!

  • i feel like i can just smell the coffee :)

  • I have a lot of respect for those who lived through the great depression. They knew what it was like to live on hard times. Today, I doubt there are many who know what its really like to work hard for what you get. We have machines that do all the work for us, back then they had to do EVERYTHING by hand. I think this can really teach us something about being grateful for what we have. I'm not even 21 yet and I feel this way, it would be nice if others did too. :)

  • This is truly a wonderful video! Thank you for sharing your recipe and history.

  • She reminds me of my mom too - my mom was born in 1913 and died in 2005.

  • you remimd me of my grandmother.

  • i carnt stop lol ing i no i shudent but its random a depresion breakfast lmfeo

  • hahahahhah nice! this lady is awsome... she knows all the little tricks to make shit the best

  • 4:50 "yeah, she was a little chunky" hahaha clara is the coolest

  • I like the way she scores the cookies with the knife just before she puts them in the oven. I love watching you cook, Clara ♥

  • I LOVE this series. The meals, the cooking technique, and of course all of the wonderful stories and interesting facts from your life. You're amazing, Clara, I wish you were MY grandma! Thanks for doing all these fantastic videos!

  • i love her!!!!!!!!!!! she is soooo sweet!

  • great video, appreciated it sooooooooooooo much !!! thanks:)

    Fredrik from Oslo, Norway

  • hi carla. just wanted to tell u my 6 yr old daughter likes to watch your videos.God bless u. thanks for sharing your great stories. u remind me of my grandma.take care

  • God bless you! How is this different from regular cooking (asked below)? They used whatever they had and managed to make it SPECIAL. Now you can get a pkg of wafer cookies for a dollar in the store. But so many families from then said WE WERE POOR BUT WE WERE HAPPY.

  • @karenofbethany reading what u said made me smile its nice to come across sum1 who isnt an idiot for a change

  • keep up the beautiful filming i read we only had 3 things in the olden days corn scons flat back milk  or butter

  • how is this different from regular cooking

  • Dear Clara, you are a JOY to watch :)

  • That is the best measuring cup I have ever seen

  • Hello Clara, you are a true inspiration. Thank you so much for your recipes and your stories of The Great Depression. It's very interesting and I like the videos your grandson has made of this series. Best Wishes, Kate from the UK.

  • This is how history should be tought. Your shows are beautiful I love them to bits.

  • Wow, I loved this video. It made me cry also, we take so much for granted and consume beyond necessity.

  • how depressing

  • I love u Clara. Can't wait to try these cookies.

  • She beautiful, precious, and blessed lady(: We all love you Ms. Clara!! God Bless

  • @matrox999 just doing my part lol

  • darn i miss my Grandma! ]ol

  • shes so cute i want her to be my grandma~ all mine have passed on.

    ive got grandma envy!

  • "Yea she nice and chunky!" T-shirt anyone?!?!

  • For a 93-year old, she sure has vigor when beating eggs.

  • she is so swwet a grandma i wish i alwas wish i had

    how can 169 of yall dislike her its otay 7,454 PPL LOVED HER

  • she reminds of snape, idk why...

  • @chrysillo Both very charismatic, in my opinion.

  •  wow very good cook...

  • i could watch you all day long =)

  • My dad loved those wafer cookies ,He grew up during the depression now I know why he loved them . Thanks Clara .

  • Clara, you are awesome! Thank you for sharing your recipes! :)

  • I love this lady! She's an inspiration. I own all her dvds. Thank You Clara!

  • This is the coolest series on youtube for sure.

  • so cute! i wish you could come cook with my family and talk about the depression

  • i LOVE old photos like that :D

  • i adore her. i am going to watch every one of her videos, i love clara!

  • I just love your videos! I love your classic kitchen utensils!

    

  • Clara, I love all your videos! In fact I watched all of them! I am only ten years old and I have your book on my Cristamas list! You are so nice, it seems like.Don't listen to any mean comments! Just forget about them. I on my moms profile. My mom said I can add you as a friend! Keep cooking on. P.S My favorite video of yours was the one where you made pizza.The pizza looked delicious. Bye

  • "She's nice and chunky." That cracked me up. She seems like a nice lady.

  • MILF

  • @Straatiemannetje No, it's GGMILF

  • @ih8makinusernames its GILF and O.O

  • Cherish your grandmothers. Wish I had met at least one of my grandmas.....

  • @SevereMalfunction7 same here, I dindn't met my grandma or my grandpa but at least I knew the other 2

  • these videos remind me of my mom, bonnie g, who died 11 yrs ago from cancer. death sucks!!! even tho' i miss my mom every day & wish i cud talk to her, Clara cheers me up n reminds me how wonderful my mom was. even Clara's kitchen looks just like ours, when i was growing up, down to the stove! i also learn a lot about what it must have been like for my mom to grow up during that time.

  • My grandmother had the same depression era breakfast.

  • Omg this is the best i've seen in youtube. you are wonderful grandma and your cooking remind us of a time when eatiing was a healthy and natural thing

  • what a god send for a grandmother =)

  • 168 people that never had it hard in life , Well they`ll be looking for scraps when the going gets tough and it will . Hello Maam to this day I enjoy the traditions that you showed here dipped toast and coffee every morning without fail my Mother used to make these cookies for us lost her parents with scarlett fever she was orphaned at age 7 with a younger sister & brother that she took care of for 2 weeks before they were found , also Pemmican & bannoc Nice channel you have here .

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  • i dont understand why i enjoyed this so much

  • how can you be so heartless to even look at the dislike button?

  • I have learn a whole lot in just a short video. Clara makes me smile :)

  • Love the video. Great grandma. What lovely personality.

  • thank you so much for making these videos.

  • she is sooooo cute!

  • I feel like my antidepressiants already

  • What a charming lady. The food doesn't look bad at all. It definitely beats the Ramen Noodles we'll be eating when it all collapses again. Nice video. 166 people dislike this? The nerve. By all means, they can keep their heads burried.

  • @Stockpile1 theyll be hte ones begging for a meal when they cant afford fast food anymore. while the rest of us are eatign relatively well. thank you ms clara

  • Aww, thank you for this! What a lovely video. Such a nice idea.

  • Thanks for letting us join you in your (or someone's) home Clara!

  • OMG WHAT KIND OF CAMERA ARE THEY USING

  • What a wonderful lady, the exact image of my dear grandmother who was born in 1902 and passed away in 1987. My granny lived across the street and would always have homemade cookies and churros for us. She would stretch out biscuit dough into long tubes, cut them into 6"- 8" long pieces, drop them into hot oil until they browned, let them drain off, and roll them in sugar! Not the healthiest but, darn, they sure were good!

  • Cook Woman! :D

  • she s simply amazing!!! God bless u Clara

  • Wonderful. I love youtube when it means good things. Bless Clara, shes sweeter than her cookies!

  • @cuttock agreed

  • i actualy do that with my coffee and im 19 my dad wont buy the decaf coffee ground

  • 'shes nice and chunky' haha shes so funny oh i love her XD

  • lol my mom used to do the same to use when we were little with the coffee!

  • This is great information especially since we are in a DEPRESSION now!

  • she is adorable

  • Clara - I love you & your cooking shows! Thanks for sharing your kitchen wisdom with us

  • What a real sweetie pie!! How lovely!

  • It's amazing someone can remember things from so many years ago (o_0) I can watch her videos forever, she's so sweet...

  • Its wonderful and i just ador her i was raised by my grandmother and he is gone now so its nice to see her cooking great food. I have been out of a job for quiet a while and is having trouble making ends meet but if i ever get enuff money i want her cook book so bad. all my love and my grandmothers because she would love you to.

  • Thanks for sharing your memories.

  • Thanks for sharing your memories.

  • Depression meals! mmm...sounds so appetizing!

  • @rellenoz Reminds me of mealtimes when I lived at home with my mom. Every meal was a depression meal!

  • i hope she lives way older than 94

  • this made me--> :')

  • great videos you have, really gives me insight into what life was like back than, plus some great cooking ideas when im low on food or need to save a few extra pennies

  • Clara, thank you for sharing your experience from so long ago. And, to your great-grand children who made this fabulous video. So remarkable. I will share this with all my facebook friends right now. Totally stumbled up on this and am glad I did!

  • I just love this lady... what a doll. She's not afraid to call the girl fat either. hahaha. Just like my grandmother - she says stuff like that too.

  • What a sweetheart. <3

  • she's nice and chunky .....lol

  • omg she looks like such a nice person !!!!!

    i want a hug from her

    or a grandmother like that

    my grandmother doesn't like baking cookies u_u

    or almost anything.......

  • I died in the depression 20 years ago in Florida while riding on the train ride at Disney World while strongly intoxicated singing "I just want to fly!" 2 hours later i was diagnosed with depression cancer and i died.

  • @FreeportHometown ?.....

  • ..?

  • EW

  • Ciao, Nonna Clara! Sei proprio simpatica. Grazie mille per le ricette. :)

  • aww, i love watching these videos. it makes me wish that we lived in a much simpler society.

  • That's just the sweetest lady I've seen in awhile. Thank you for sharing her with us. :)

  • This lady is SO COOOL! She reminds me of MY paternal G'Mom! My Dad was BORN in 1930 and this is the kind of stuff Grandma used to teach me to cook. During the Depression she cooked on a woodstove and never would use a microwave. Thank you G'Mom and thank you Clara for the Great Memories! :)

    I believe I am going to subscribe!

  • Thank you Clara for sharing some of your history with us. My grandparents have all passed away, and I feel like I just spent 6:14 with my grandma. It was a valuable use of my time. Thank you for your wisdom and your spunk! :)

  • Not depressing enough

  • i love you grand ma

  • 163 people do not appreciate good cooking when they see it.

  • @gwhizkids - 163 (169 now) people are going to have a tough time eating frugally when the 2nd great depression hits.

  • What a boss

  • This is depressing.

  • Clara i love your videos and i wish you where my grandmother. I would love to cook with you some time ^_^

  • I'd love to have a cup of coffee with her! :)

  • i need to get my great grandma on youtube she is freaking a riot. going to make vids now.....

  • I want sugar cookies for breakfast! D :

  • im going to maake some of those cookies . many thanks for the video

  • A great spirit lives long--93. My father-in-law is 92; my grandmother lived to be 96. They have/had great spirits just like Clara.

  • Clara, you are the best.  Blessings- Anthony.

  • For some reason I just want to hug this lady.

  • Zeno's still depressed!!! D:

  • i love this granny :)

  • What an amazing lady. So much wisdom and life to share. I hope we all take a brief moment to glean the wisdom from the elderly folks around us. She is truly a beautiful woman and an inspiration. Thank you so much for sharing!

  • She is just such an adorable old lady :)

  • cutest old lady ever.

  • The depression oh..........yeah just like today, okay without any modern comparisons, specifics or technicalities I was trying got be funny but there has not been any real development since 2006.

  • This is precious. I am so glad that someone's child/grandchild has thought to do this. I hope more do likewise. What a great way to remember our grandparents. This family is blessed to have their grandmother with them and willing to do this. This will keep her young! I love it when she says "I don't got enough grease" I love it!!!!

  • This is precious. I am so glad that someone's child/grandchild has thought to do this. I hope more do likewise. What a great way to remember our grandparents. This family is blessed to have their grandmother with them and willing to do this. This will keep her young!

  • if there were cats in this this would be a viral video

  • aw i wish she was my grandmother =)

  • @318coolboy yeah ikr

  • you are a beautiful woman~ thank you so much for sharing.

  • Thank you for sharing Clara. You are an inspiration to me. People do not realise how good they have it today....such conveniences available to us. When you wanted a meal back then, you really had to work for it.

    Bless you dear lady. (Julie from Australia)

  • 93 year old on youtube? Amazing

  • thank you very much, Clara :)

  • @pcma Don't deny it doesn't exactly look like gourmet cooking, but if you would have read beyond the first sentence or two you would realize I'm actually complimenting the lady and the whole show

  • @PhantomSavage Y'know some people don't like to read. I also agree with your previous statements. "We only had cookies on Sunday" Could you imagine what would happen if we actually followed this wise advice? It's a historic and educational on good eating habits, don't you think? :3

  • @Zayashuku Deffinatly.... It's funny how opposite society is from back then. Back then people were dying left and right from food deprivation.... now they're dying left and right from heart failure because they're too fat XD. Inbetween there somewhere we hit a perfect balance, I'd say probably the 50's and 60's, but that's just me

  • this is the funniest video on youtube!!!!

  • The food looks like shit, and I'm sure it tastes like shit, but there's something here that you don't see on other cooking shows.... sure, the food is terrible, but it's historical, it has a past, and the woman cooking it grew up on this stuff, and is really passionate about it no matter what it taste like... bravo I say, bravo

  • @PhantomSavage you should never talk like that about what other people eat. its so rude and inconsiderate

  • @PhantomSavage This food looks great to me. I've always eaten plain cooking (had a mom who also grew up during the Depression) and it was *good*. Don't knock it because it doesn't look like a picture from a magazine. My friends used to love to visit my house because they knew they'd get some of my mom's good cooking.

  • @veganjustice are u talking about her!

  • this made me depressed.

  • I dearly love your old photographs. thanks for sharing.

  • I'm so glad I found these videos. I'm not really sure how I stumbled across them but this is probably the best youtube channel that I know of. I love Clara, she's my new role model!

  • Really interesting concept for a video. My Mother in law is a 75 year old Russian woman. When she was only a child Hitler invaded Russia. Her father was killed in battle and she grew up taking care of 2 younger sisters while her mother worked in a Soviet era factory. She can really tell some stories of having a rough childhood. Maybe I can convince her into being in some videos.

  • I'll bet that measuring cup is 63 years old....

  • Her father had a nice mustache :3

  • Grandmothers are cool!

  • Thanks Clara! you made may day.

  • This is really great. Thanks for sharing your recipes and your stories!

  • children love 2 play

  • How wonderful for Clara to share her life through the recipes from her childhood and other memories. What a treasure to have those memories recorded for future generations.  THANKS, Clara and thanks to your production (camera) crew too.

  • 0:51, GRANNY FAIL! xD

  • I can't wait to be that age, so carefree and have lived my worst years already!

  • She's soo healthy for her age!! It's soo amazing!!

  • I love this so much. Thank you, Clara.

  • did this video make you ponder about old age? and how much we change through time, like this old lady could have been a real hottie when she was younger and real lively.......its quite depressive...*excuse the pun*

  • @utsawin09 "depressive"?

  • Let along the fact that they shouldn't force us by brainwashing to buy these useless environmentally harming plethora of products that no one actually needs to lead a happy life. That's why I like this video so much. Back then people lived freer lives, they enjoyed themselves and each others company. Nowadays people "compare" themselves to other people around them too much and they can't find peace or happiness.

  • Just watched the first of the depression series, very well made and really interesting, it draws you in like a movie. The lady is good at telling stories too. Congrats.