On Feb 3, 4:42*pm, jmcquown > wrote:
> On 2/3/2013 6:55 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> >> I think it is also aka: Mulligan Soup
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> >> 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).
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> > 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.
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> 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
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> Jill

Yup- we called them Hobo Packs. We did that with the Boy Scout troop
my son was in- the kids loved to make them and spice them up as I
would take a lot of spices for them to choose from.