Feed A Crowd for $5 - Great Depression Hoover Stew | Hard Times Recipe

Greetings my beautiful loves, I'm Emmy, how are you? It's a pleasure to see you and welcome back to another

hard

times

episode where I explore

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s that come from

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today we're going to go to the Depression era, it's around the 1930s. make Hoover

stew

now this

stew

was named after you of President Herbert Hoover and because he was president of the US at the time, he was often the one who was blamed for all the terrible problems people had during the Great Depression because so many people lost their jobs also lost their homes and slums began to appear these were called Hoovervilles the newspaper was called Hoover blankets and the cardboard was called Hoover leather and this

recipe

is called Hoover stew it is a very simple stew made from things that are relatively inexpensive and can

feed

a multitude of people, so I will do it today in the description.

I'll put links to the references I use to create this video and the recipe I'm going to try today comes from a charcoal cookie in Lori's kitchen falls again I'll put a link down below okay let's go ahead and start something else if you missed my other hard times recipes, I'll also put a hard times playlist below as well, okay, let's go ahead and Start, so here I have a bunch of water about to boil, this has salt in it, by the way. I always try to boil my pasta in salted water, so now that it's boiling vigorously, I have a box of elbow macaroni. there and it says to cook for eight to ten minutes, so stir a little so the pasta doesn't stick to the bottom and there's water surrounding the pasta.

We're going to rehydrate this dried pasta, so we're going to cook this for eight minutes or until it's almost completely cooked. We are also going to cook it in a sauce, so we will take it out a little earlier. Wow, that comes to a boil and cooks. I'm going to set that aside for a minute so the other ingredients in this recipe are a can of tomatoes, this is a large can, it's 28 ounces, and a regular size can of corn, but the notes in the recipe say that you can add pretty much whatever you have if you want to add a little bit of onion if you want to add a little bit of fresh pepper, basically you need some little bits that you have on hand, you can throw them into this stew, including an extra can of beans or any other type of canned. vegetable, you have the recipe that specifically says these two things and a package of hot dogs and this particular ingredient reminds me of one of my first difficult recipes that I made and it was from Clara and she had a channel here on YouTube that focused on recipes that I remembered from the Great Depression Clara is sadly no longer with us, but her videos live on along with all her stories and recipes, so let's go ahead and cut up our hot dogs.

Now this also reminds me of Clara because she spoke. about using hot dogs because they were inexpensive and she cut them into very thin coins, which this recipe also says. It makes sense if you cut them thinly you get a bigger pile apparently even though it's the same amount of meat spread out. protein, so coins, I'm going to cut them very thin like this, okay, that's about a quarter of an inch, cut them now. Using this knife reminds me of Clara too because she talked about it in one of her videos and in fact I think all of her videos she cuts with a paring knife, just a knife like this and she cuts the pan like this right on her thumb , which always makes me a little nervous because I feel like he's going to cut off his thumb, but he never did and he said this.

It's what your mom would do right on the pan this way, no need to use a cutting board, just cut on the pan with a larger knife and cutting three at a time seems a little faster and I've gotten a lot of

feed

back. in those videos when I mentioned she cooked like this saying oh yeah my grandma used to cut like that too super sweet okay now let's drain our pasta we lost a couple okay and I'll use the same pot so I'm going to save the too cooking liquid in case we need it to be a little thicker, so the original recipe says to just throw everything in with the macaroni, but to give it a little more flavor, let's go ahead and brown our hot dog. chunks just to caramelize a little and since the sausages are very salty I'm not going to add any additional salt, but also in the recipe notes it says you can add black pepper if you like Italian seasoning with whatever you have.

It's going to make this tasty for you so I'm definitely going to add black pepper so let's go ahead and do that so to the sausages we're going to add a can of drained corn and a big can of stewed tomatoes oh this is going We make a lot of food and we're just going to stir this in and let it cook for a few minutes so the flavors can blend. The corn of course is already cooked and so is the meat so at this point we are just preparing All Happy Together now the hot dogs have a lot of salt so I will wait to add salt and I also added salt to the pasta water, so it should have a little bit of salt in it too, so we're going to turn up the heat. and bring this to a simmer it's colorful at least hey and it makes a lot so let it cook a little bit now let's check the tomatoes and the sausages but everything is bubbling and simmering and now that it's heated up it's released much more juice. so that's going to be good as the sauce for our pasta, okay, now I'm going to add our macaroni, oh, this is going to be nice tight, oh, if you don't want that to happen to you or the pasta, you can rinse it with a little cold water. water or you can add a little bit of olive oil to your pasta so it doesn't stick that's funny I lost some so now we're going to fold everything gently because it's elbow macaroni pasta.

I automatically think it's cheese. If you had some cheese, I think it would probably be a

great

addition to this, even if it was grated Parmesan, just something a little bit more to give it a little bit of richness, but we'll have it like this because that's the recipe. says but the recipe also says that this is a recipe to use all the little bits from your pantry in your refrigerator, whatever you have and that's it, our Hoover stew is ready, let's try it, thank you, okay, let's go ahead and give our stew Hoover has a flavor that certainly goes a long way, isn't it spicy?

It's colorful. Make sure you start going all the way to the bottom because the bottom pasta will be softer than the top pasta because it absorbs all the dough. Tomato juices, okay, okay, let's try it, let's make sure we take a bite of everything. itadakimasu, oops, drop some of my corn, okay, my first taste of Hoover stew, itadakimasu, it tastes like what you imagine, it definitely doesn't need to. any salt, there's a lot of salt in sausages and we also salt the pasta while we're boiling it, so they're definitely salty enough the sausages give it a little bit of smoky and garlicky flavor, of course, also meatiness because we use chopped tomatoes.

They are not like a tomato sauce so they added tomato flavor without it being as strong as a spaghetti sauce, it has a light tomato flavor and the corn is there but I don't really taste the corn because it is sparsely distributed in Here, okay, let me get some corn. I don't really taste the corn, but rather feel it as I bite into it. There is a kind of succulent crunch. I say, oh yeah, that's corn and then you get it canned. a little corn flavor that I like because when we were kids we ate canned corn infrequently, so when she had it, I remember my mom would open the can of corn, drain the water, and I would steal the little morsels. the can because they just taste good there's something about that canned corn flavor that I really liked that's a kid yeah I don't know anyway you can definitely try it here.

I'm this is a very humble recipe that would fill your belly with lots of pasta, carbs and protein, it's easy to make, it feeds a

crowd

, it's delicious, okay, but like I said, it ticks all the boxes of giving it some veggies, some starch, some protein, definitely, enough salt, feeds a lot of people and is relatively inexpensive, so it definitely gets the job done, there you go. Hoover stew. If I were to make this again, I would definitely recommend adding a teaspoon of dried Italian seasoning mix or dried basil or dried oregano some type of thyme or some type of dried herb. it's going to be really

great

with this or with fresh herbs if you have something to add an extra facet of flavor to it, even something like an onion or a couple cloves of garlic or something like that just to add a little bit of extra complexity because really this is hot dogs and macaroni, that's what it tastes with tomato, you know, to round things out a little, the tomatoes give it some acidity, but yes, it could use more, but the seasoning is very useful, my loves, there you have it, Hoover.

Cook an inexpensive meal to feed a

crowd

if you're interested in other Hard Times recipes. I'll put a link below to the playlist. Thank you very much for watching it. I hope you enjoy it. I hope you learned something. Share this video with your friends. follow me on social media I love hearing from you I love your suggestions like this video subscribe and see you next time take care bye bye Hooters reminds me of Hoover Vacuums it's a vacuum cleaner town that sounded more like wow bees swimming or something like that