"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 2/3/2013 6:55 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "sf" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> I think it is also aka: Mulligan Soup
>>>
>>> I have a package of precooked hamburger in the freezer that I want to
>>> use up. I've decided that my tastes have changed and I just don't
>>> like beef in spaghetti sauce anymore. No matter how I spice it up
>>> with garlic and oregano, it just tastes blah to me and I prefer
>>> Italian sausage (even if it's "mild")... so I want to use this stuff
>>> up. I ran across something called hobo stew, which seems to be
>>> whatever you feel like adding to the pot - even corn and beans (both
>>> green and dried).
>>
>> We made something like that at Girl Scout camp except that it was in foil
>> packages and done on the grill. So even though they called it stew,
>> there
>> wasn't really any broth to it. Ground beef, potatoes, onions, carrots,
>> celery, whatever else you've got.
>>
>>
> I call those "campfire pocketbooks". Some friends and I made them a
> couple of times while on camping trips. In the fire, not on a grill. In
> our case we didn't pre-cook the ground beef. We formed them into small
> hamburger patties to go into the foil pouches with the veggies. Salt,
> pepper. The "pocketbooks" went directly into the wood fire. For about an
> hour. The meat cooked, releasing juices and fat in the foil pouch which
> in turn cooked the vegetables. Quite tasty for what it was

Yes, I guess ours wasn't precooked either. I sometimes make hamburger stew
at home. V8 or tomato juice, cooked ground beef and whatever veggies I have
but the best are potatoes, onions, carrots and celery.