The topic and conversation of food and cooking has always been a popular one amongst people. Cooking shows, cookbooks, recipe cards, blogs, and so much more exists out there regarding food and mealtime. However, cooking, food, and recipes have changed a lot over the decades. These days, meals get pretty fancy and gourmet. People will pay a lot for a relatively small amount of food because of the quality. Mealtime is planned out, varied, and people want to enjoy everything they eat. In the mid-1900s, cooking looked a bit different.

Of course, food has been scarce throughout different points in time, so people got by any way they could. It did make for some pretty crazy recipes, though. At one point almost everything was suspended in Jell-O or made into a loaf. To the modern person, these meals look kind of revolting, but they were once made with joy.

Here we have collected 25 vintage recipes and meals from the early and mid-1900s for everyone to admire or weep over. Enjoy this glance into the lives of people in the past and what cooking and lifestyle looked like back then.