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Depression Era Hoover Stew
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Jun 1, 2025
This is a classic depression era recipe for an easy stew.
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$1.38 cents a serving It served our
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ancestors during the Great Depression
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and it can serve you as well Way back in
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1929 when the stock market crashed there
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was so many people that were left
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unemployed President Hoover was in
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office People were lining up at what
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they called soup kitchens Hoover stew
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The original recipe that started so many
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years ago was just macaroni dried
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noodles stewed tomatoes and hot dogs Now
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sure we're going to change it up just a
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tad but we're going to keep it pretty
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traditional in its way and celebrate the
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history of the Great
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Depression We're just going to cook this
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till it's sort of al dente After that I
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took some kabalsa sausage and I sliced
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pretty thin They are Put it in a Dutch
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oven hanging right over the fire Add one
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small yellow onion to it We finished
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cooking that meat till it was browned up
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just a little We're going to add us two
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cans of canned beans and two cans of
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stewed
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tomatoes
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[Music]
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Pretty cheap meal when you figure it
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that way Makes me want to do the Shanny
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Town shuffle Got to
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[Music]
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do Yes That generation there had true
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grit They knew how to survive And times
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may get hard now but you got family
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around you You got friends You got me
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and Shan So you can make it through this
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Cook you up some Hoover stew Share it
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with your neighbors
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