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| SIL Cheryl, Me, FIL Ralph, SIL Joyce, MIL Thelma - 1970 |
They all enjoyed it and so did I once I joined the family and was served it and then learned to make it myself. Dad always called it Boston Bitch! but when I started making it for our family we just called it Boston B. It wasn't until they were adults that the kids finally learned what it's original name was. Most of them didn't like it but I kept making it hoping they'd develop a taste for it.
Here's how it's made. Try it - you'll like it...maybe.
1. Brown a pound or so of ground beef, chopped onion, salt and pepper in a skillet until the meat is brown and crumbly.
2. Put it in a large bowl and add leftover mashed potatoes (or 4-5 freshly cooked and mashed potatoes) and a can of condensed tomato soup. Mix well.
3. Put mixture in a casserole dish and heat in 350 oven until heated through.
4. Serve with fresh vegetables. I always put butter on the top of my serving. It was especially good with home made onion/mustard pickles.
I haven't had it in years - must make some soon.
What retro recipes are hidden in your recipe collection?
13 comments:
What's not to like (except maybe the name)? It sounds like a tasty dish to me.
LOL I think I served this exact dish many a night to my family...I just thought of it as stretching the monday meet friday budget!
Hugs~
That sounds like a great recipe Pat.
I will give it a go.
Think the kids would really enjoy it.
Fiona
Ummm, no thanks but I don't think it would be that bad, I just have a problem with mixing the tomato soup and mashed potatoes. This reminds me of Melynda's blog and her Wednesday posts that are called "What we are NOT eating Wednesdays". She puts old bad recipes on there. I have an old one called muck a muck that my husbands family loves.
Some of those old recipes are the best. We used to use Campbells Tomato soup in a lot of things. I can remember my mom creaming the soup with milk with a dab of butter in it. Mmmmm good as they say. Hope your Wednesday is a wonderful one.
Should be called Boston P?
Sometimes simple, old fashioned recipes are more flavoursome than modern inventions, which are often all about presentation, but short on flavour.
Good old tomato soup,lol. That sounds way better than the mess I made,I love it!
I haven't had this in a long time, but I seem to remember it being intolerably bland. Maybe I have to taste it again, though, and add some pickles.
Hi Pat
I have a little award for you - will post about it later this morning!
Fiona
We made a similair recipe with sliced potatoes and cubed cheese. Kids love it!
Em, you're supposed to put half a shaker of salt and pepper each on it -- oh, and smear your portion with butter (or margerine -- which you must pronounce "margereeeen).
I'm not real excited about this recipe but it sounds like something my husband would like.
I haven't been commenting on your blog because I didn't have you set up right in my google reader and didn't think you were posting. It's all fixed now:)
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