WetLeather Recipe Database - food for bikers

Name:	Scoop Shovel Stew	Contributor:	Nick Olson
Description:	Scoop Shovel Stew	Posted:	1998-10-11
Key words:	stew, corned beef	Category:	Soups
ID:	70	Updated:	2006-04-05 08:59:51
Ingredients:	3 onions -- brown in a little fat 2 cans corned beef (broken into pieces) 1 large can whole tomatoes 1 can stewed tomatoes 1 can drained and rinsed okra (if you like it) 1 can drained whole potatoes (cut into pieces) 1 8-oz can tomato sauce
Preparation:	Chop onions and brown in fat; add corned beef and remaining ingredients. Cook in large Dutch oven for 20 minutes - until well-blended. Take care not to burn it! Cooking in a crock pot is good, too. Serve over slices of bread or with tossed green salad and red wine.
Notes:	This is not a gourmet dish -- more in the category of home cooking. With the exception of the onions, the ingredients can sit on the shelf waiting for unannounced guests to descend. It dates back to the days of the coal-burning Navy. The men stoking the boilers would knock the dust out of a coal shovel and cook themselves a meal right in the fire. Lacking a boiler room, I use a crock pot or a dutch oven. I got it from a friend I called 'Grandpa', who lived that life.
Equipment:	Dutch Oven