3. Peanut Butter Stuffed Onions
All culinary common sense and taste preferences were thrown out the window during the Depression-era. Instead, people opted for things that had high caloric and nutritional value. Thus, the baked onion stuffed with peanut butter was born. People mostly got the ideas for these recipes from reading magazines which were full of recipes pushed by the Bureau of Home Economics. The magazines also encouraged people to get creative and stretch their budget as much as possible.
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