You are such a delight to listen to and we love your stories as much as your wonderful recipes. "I was born a coal miner's granddaughter" with mom's family from southern OH & WV. Our version is called Slumgullion, done in the oven and starts with hamburger, cabbage and tomatoes then whatever else you have. Often includes carrots, potatoes and or turnips & onions. Layered with salt & pepper to taste & baked in a lidded roaster or whatever you have that holds it all. No water added as the tomatoes & cabbage add enough for our taste but you could. We love the cabbage to begin carmelizing with the meat. Omg, so good. We serve with a hearty bread slathered in butter, perfect for cleaning the bowl at the end. Thank you for working to keep some of these great old recipes and ways to live healthy while cheaply, alive and well for another generation.
Glad you have great memories of your Granny. It makes your life more fulfilled. How many women today give credit to their Granny for cooking, sewing, gardening and many other things in their lives. Hope she is still with us, today.
I get celery cheap on sale and then dehydrate a whole mess of it. It stores well dry. We’ve been making this stew since childhood. My wife added more to it with her own knowledge of herbs. She’s a dynamite cook! We skip the dumplings and go with crackers. This is so healthy and delicious! Growing the ingredients yourself makes it so much better, I agree!
Sometimes I use sausage as the meat in soups. It adds a different flavor for a change. At the end of the week, I even add some leftovers and odds and ends of veggies. My Mom used to call it Friday soup. I remember her putting some leftover macaroni and cheese in it and it was yummy. Thank you for your version and your memories around the stew.
Tipper, your cabbage stew looks delicious much like some thing my mother used to make. With my mother and father both gone I always find it comforting to listen to your voice, you sound like home. How I miss those days. I think I will be trying your version of cabbage stew have a wonderful day, you bring much joy to this southern girl who lives among the Yankees.
I make a similar stew/soup but use chicken more often than beef. Also, I use chicken broth instead of water and sometimes add a can of Rotel to spice it up a bit... Sometimes I'll bundle up and eat it on the deck by the Hiwassee River... The cool air, sound of water rippling, and tasty hot and hearty stew makes a great combo! :)
" bundle up and eat it on the deck by the Hiwassee River... The cool air, sound of water rippling, and tasty hot and hearty stew makes a great combo! :) " Thank you for such a warm and happy visual. I know My Day is coming! Be Blessed!
I did the same for my own 5 kids. I got the silverware sets - I learned to do this from my mom, who did this for all of us 6 kids. (They were wedding gifts.) I remember the Eagle stamps, Green Stamps, Box Tops, etc. Thanks for the recipe, and the video.
Yes, however green stamps were back in the 70s not in the 80s. When, you filled up the books, you could turn them in at your local grocery stores for merchandise they featured or you could go to one of the True Value Stamp Stores and use them. Box Tops didn’t start till the mid to late 70s, but, you couldn’t really use them for personal use, that was more to help purchase things for schools they needed, similar to the Campbell Soup Labels. There was a way you could use the box tops for personal use but, we mostly turned them in at school.
One of my grandma's favorite treasures was Pinkie and Blueboy framed prints. She got them with green stamps and they hung in her bedroom. Not many decor items in her house but these were special. She lived to 99 2/3 with just a few years in a nursing home. I don 't know what happened to Pinky and Blueboy. I always think of her if I see one in a shop.
Mother made a quick, easy, and delicious soup that I nicknamed Bachelor Soup. It starts with a 46 oz. can of tomato juice. Next add a can of chili with beans. This contains all the meat and seasoning you'll need and one of the vegetables. Finally, add an assortment of 5 cans of vegetables. (I like peas, corn, tomatoes with okra, diced potato, and mixed veg.). Most are undrained, but drain and rinse black beans if you use those. Now you can go wild with options. I like chopped green chilis or hominy. Maybe I have a little leftover macaroni, pot roast, fried cabbage, rotisserie chicken, or spaghetti in the fridge. Toss it in (somewhat sparingly). This soup is a little different each time I make it, but always delicious. And, it makes enough for leftovers or for freezing. Bon appétit!
I love cabbage. Was raised on it. My mom would send me and my sister to the store to get cabbage. We would walk to the store and get a head of cabbage. While we were walking home, we would tear off some of the leaves and munch on it on the way home. Still love chewing on raw cabbage for a snack.
This is a variation of a soup that I make often with cornbread. It’s so good, and I love one pot meals, especially in the winter. It’s also cool to hear you refer to lunch as dinner, because my family did that when I was young. It’s been lunch to me for so long now, though, that it took me a moment to get your meaning. 😂 My grandmother also saved green stamps, and I remember helping her lick the stamps to fill the books. She usually redeemed them for some kind of kitchenware which she then kindly put into my hope chest. Decades later I still have and use some of those things.
My MIL here in southeast TN., makes an amazing version of this, called Taco Soup. It’s not difficult to make, but I can *never* get mine to taste as good as hers! She gave me the recipe years ago, but I think she was holdin’-out on me! 💯🇺🇸😉
@@CelebratingAppalachia - Hot taco soup, sprinkled with some sharp cheddar and a large dollop of sour cream. We scoop it with tortilla chips. Make your tongue slap the roof of your mouth out. 👍🏻
I made this stew this afternoon for my youngest son and my husband of 36 years and they both loved it. I didn’t put any celery, I didn’t have any but I put steamed sliced carrots in. I served it with cat head biscuits (made with lard and butter) and no dumplings. Thank you so much for sharing, everyone loved it!
When I was a young mom, Hamburger Helper had a stew version with a cabbage patch stew recipe. All you added was the hamburger meat and the cabbage. It was delicious. I was so sad when they discontinued the stew variety of Hamburger Helper. So happy to get this recipe.
I miss how good the Beef Pasta kind was. I purchased it a couple of years ago to prepare for my son for the sake of nostalgia and it was NOT good AT ALL!! I ended up just making homemade beef pasta that was much better. I was so disappointed, though.
I make a soup very similar, call it refrigerator soup! Thank you so much for your simple, down-home recipes. I feel so comforted watching your videos❣️
This is very good grub on a winters day. It's much like "Amish soup". My wife and I both cook and love meals like this. Believe it or not, sometimes if you don't feel like going to the store for fresh onions, keep some onion flakes or dried onions on hand. They'll work in a pot of beans or even in chili and soup. We're like you on adding a little chili powder to soups and stews, especially vegetable beef soup. My late mother-in-law always put a can of tomato puree and a tablespoon of chili powder in her vegetable soup. We're fortunate in that we have a seed store in town where we buy spices, dried onions and garlic. Sometimes doctors will say to me, "You should lose that bay window hanging out there in front." I simply act surprised and ask them why that when they were in medical school they didn't learn that's called table muscle. Word in our family is "Never get between grandpa and the groceries."
I love homemade soups. Vegetable soup with hamburger, clam chowder, string bean soup w/taters and corn dumplings, potato soup, chicken and rice with dumplings, bean soups of all kinds! Throw in some saltines, or gold fish crackers, or cornbread or whatever you want! That’s good eatin!
Thank you for the receipt. Have you watched The Vannage Point? He does a lot of family names of Appalachia and where they come from. He told me my daddy’s name (Enterkin) is very rare and comes from Dumfries I nearly cried at 71 I’ve always wanted to know something about him as I lost him when I was 11.
I can vegetable soup every few years. It's one of my pride and joy recipes that looks beautiful in the jars. Years back I canned over 100 quarts. It has served us well and each can was delicious regardless of my ingredients. I add ground beef and a few odds and ends vegetables plus water and more tomatoes. We eat it with cornbread. So yummy and comforting. 😋
I learned to make a stew very similar over 60 years ago. The one basic difference was the addition of potato chunks instead of the beans. I, too, still make it today and love to use my home canned tomatoes. I enjoyed your description of your feelings about using the food you canned from your garden. I love that feeling of satisfaction when I see the shining glass jars filled with the result of my labor in the garden and in the kitchen. I love your program and have shared it with friends.
Seems like it hits a lot of the same notes as Golabki (Polish stuffed cabbage), but a lot less work. I am feeling like I really want to try this! Thank you for sharing this.
My mom was a master at using bits of leftovers to make delicious soups. There was often just a "smidgen" of meat as she called it but she was able to extract maximum flavor from it. To this day I don't know how she made it so delicious.
My mom cooked this way too. Her secret for rich vegetable soups was a few tablespoons of tomato paste & a generous sprinkle of Italian seasoning blend. If you don't have this seasoning, half a packet of dry Italian salad dressing mix can work too. Just mind adding salt.
@@elmerbefuddled2156 I have heard of using tomato paste... Lydia Bastianich often does this in her cooking and toasts it a bit in the bottom of the pan. Thanks
Yes Tipper, my Mama saved up S&H Green Stamps...books and books. She had so many that she sent them off and got me a real pretty rocking chair for my 10th birthday. ❤ Then when I was in the 5th grade a long, long time ago I started saving Betty Crocker Coupons. My neighbor saved them for me and my Aunt Minerva. By the time I got married, I had a Onieda Stainless Flatware Set. Then I saved up for the serving spoons and the meat fork and slotted spoons. I had every kitchen utensil that they offered. Those coupons were so useful. Your soup is going to be included in my soup rotation from now on.❤
I’m going to make this this weekend as the temps are due to go down 0-12 deg’s and this sounds perfect. I’ll use ground Turkey and leeks as substitutes. I just love 1 pot meals 😋 thank you Tipper
The cabbage patch stew looks and sounds delicious! I agree with you about the memories stored in each jar of food I can. Not only of canning that jar, but I go back to helping Mama can when I was growing up.
My mom had a Bisquick cookbook. When I went away to college, I was either on the limited or not at all on the meal plan over the 4 years. She let me take her Bisquick cookbook with me. I kept quite the grocery pantry in my room and had a fridge and small chest freezer in my room as well. I would make all kinds of yummy stuff with a microwave, toaster oven, and electric skillet! I would get a whim and make cinnamon rolls or apple crisp with bisquick and oats, but had to bake them in the floor kitchen oven. The other floor dwellers would chase me down the hall wanting what I made! 😁
Takes me back to my youth. My German grandfather would make a soup very similar. He would always make it on a Saturday, and He ALWAYS used a knuckle bone or beef shanks for flavor, he added carrots and potatoes too. Thanks for the memories.
I’ll make a big batch of this tomorrow to have for the weekend. We’re getting snow on Sunday and this will be just the thing. Edit: I made a huge pot of this soup today and I’m so glad I did. It’s absolutely delicious. My family raved and for sure, I’ll be making this again and again. Gracious! Thank you for sharing the recipe.
Tipper, I have made this several times now thanks to you. Everyone I serve it to just loves it! My aunt is 95 and I am taking her some today. She just loves it! It is very pleasing to thos Georgia girl!
I'm so glad I've finally found somebody besides me that says dinner and supper....not use dinner to describe supper time. We were taught breakfast, dinner and supper. Lunch was something you had at school or eating from a sack as in sack lunch. Thank you Tipper!
That looks delicious! My grandmother used to can tomatoes from the garden and I really miss them. She made "chili soup" which is similar - take out the cabbage and add elbow macaroni and you have it. She got the recipe in her highschool home ec class in the 1920s.
This sounds delicious and I will definitely be making it soon. I loved the story about your Granny. I remember my Mom collecting dishes and towels from laundry soap boxes. She was always saving coupons as well to send away to get cookbooks. I still have the first ones I sent away for when I was maybe around twelve. Thank you for a wonderful recipe and a lovely video.
Looks delicious Tipper! My recipe calls for 1 cup of uncooked rice added at the end to this soup. I also add Worcestershire sauce. Anyway you make this, it’s good and seems like a healthy meal. I like to serve it with your crunchy cornbread. Yummy!
I’ve made a similar cabbage soup, but didn’t add meat or beans. Looks good and with the winter storm coming it would be tasty hot soup to make. Thank you for sharing!
Was your's the one for the Cabbage Soup Diet? my Mom and one of her friends used to make that all the time. I loved it! I'm not much of a celery eater but I could eat it in that.
I live in the foothills of Appalachia in MS, my grandmother was part native American and we always ate this way. Fried squirrel dumpling, fried deer tenderloin or fried dove breast with biscuits ant gravy for breakfast was a few of my favorites. She taught me how to cook even her meal gravy over fresh homegrown sliced tomatoes, that is my favorite. Your show reminds me of her, thank you.
I make a similar soup with short ribs ,stew meat or hamburger ,potatoes,lots of onion and cabbage .I add carrots ,celery and tomatoes if I have them. No beans though i love most beans. It's so good with cornbread or even a slice of buttered light bread.
Looks delicious, Tipper. I loved your thoughts and emotions surrounding your home-canned tomatoes. I feel the same way. Love from Iowa ❤️ ~ Lori Parrish Niemi ~
I loved hearing you call your mid-day meal dinner. Our family always said Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper. We were from the country and our city cousins called it lunch. When you are working on a dairy farm you need a good hearty meal to get you through the rest of your day
oh that looks so good! I am laid up with the epizudic and that would hit the spot. I did manage to put some homemade chicken soup in the crock pot this morning. I can't wait to hear the rest of the Mountain Path chapter. Your channel and your blog are such a high spot of my day. Thank you!
that looks absolutely delicious!! I love onions but they tend to hurt my stomach these days. Anything with cabbage and home-canned tomatoes would be some really good eating. Loved the back story of your mom collecting box tops and green stamps and getting kitchen gadgets for ya'll. I remember green stamps!! Oh boy tomorrow is Friday and we get to check back in with Louisa!!
That was a good recipe and looked delicious. I would make this. You are a good cook with those wonderful foods. Enjoy listening and keep up the good foods.
"Quality Stamps" from Big Star in Mississippi. I swear my mom bought half our groceries and kitchenware using those things! Thanks for the great memories!
This cabbage stew is my kind of meal!!! Going to make it when I get cabbage. Thanks, Tipper, for sharing! Looking forward to more like this! God bless…love y’all! 💕🙏🏻🤗
Such a lovely and descriptive way you spoke of that beautiful jar of canned tomatoes. All through the video, my eyes, mind, and mouth was focused on it, wishing I could slurping/eat them straight from the jar. Yep, have the same exact soup with dumplings recipe. I also use it as a base for Cabbage Roll Soup, minus the beans, and adding rice and Worcestershire to the pot. And Corned Beef Cabbage Soup, adding roasted corn beef, potatoes, and I carrots, seasoned with ground mustard and horse radish, minus the hamburger and chili powder. Thank you so much for taking your time to share with us. I try to read all the comments!!
I live in Kentucky and i also like comforting foods especially on a cold snow day having a pot of homemade soup or soup beans on stove cooking nothing like it. They can all these restaurant foods they want ill take southern food any day. Thanks for sharing your videos with us it brings me joy.God bless.
Wow, pot-liquor....a few years ago I met a man 100 years old and asked him to come over fir dinner and what would he like? He said, "any dish with pot liquor at the bottom", well I made him a version of Tomatoes and beef with a thinner yunmy sauce that made him do happy. I also baked him a black walnut cake, he loved it. I know he was from southeast US, but not sure. He passed in 2020 at 103 years old, what a sweet man. Thanks for bringing up such good memories, isn't wonderful what food does for our hearts.
I remember green stamps. I remember an aunt saving tons of them and turning them in for a set of pots and pans. I remember the Kroger in town had a display of the set you could get. I used to stick the stamps on little cards for her. =)
Not sure where l learned to make it but I make something similar I call Cabbage Patch Soup. Mine just has hamburger, onion, canned stewed tomatoes, can of water, and a head of cabbage. Just cook down until cabbage is translucent. It's so good. I make it at least once a month. Leftovers are better than original. Thank you Tipper
I’m from close to the top end of the Appalachian Territory in Eastern Ohio. We just canned tomatoes about 2-3 weeks ago, and what you said about that resonated very strongly with me-I feel exactly the same way! Have been making this for a long time, but I make dumplings. There’s nothing that tastes quite like cabbage patch stew-but it’s so good, it makes even cabbage haters a quick fan of this soup :)
I'm going to fix this, it looks delicious ....thank you for sharing ....Stay safe with this winter storm that's coming this weekend .... Hugs from the North Ga Mountains
Thank you for sharing! I use seasoned ground sausage with northern white beans and all you mentioned. My family loves it ~ I think more then my ham and cabbage or ham and beans!
I have never made a soup with cabbage but we love cabbage and hamburger soup. I will definitely try this. My granny and her sister always canned tomatoes. So delicious. I loved them washed and warm from the sun eaten like an apple with lots of salt. They are my favorite food. Not chocolate or cake or steak, fresh home grown tomatoes. Granny and Auntie also put up a soup mix with tomatoes and other vegs. They canned it and froze it. You just added your meat and maybe some potatoes and you had a wonderful soup with all those home grown vegetables in it. I have tried and failed several times to grow tomatoes. I only had a success once with cherry ones, never got big ones.
You just gave the best description of why home canning is such a wonderful thing to do. I make hamburger soup, which is pretty much the same thing. Cabbage patch stew is such a better name for this filling yummy stew/soup. Love your channel, it's a breathe of fresh air in a busy world.
I will have to try this with the ground beef. One of my very favorite meals that I have made for years is just a beef vegetable soup. People often asked me what the secret ingredient is. I actually have two secret ingredients. One is the cabbage, and the other is throwing in a hot pepper that gives it a little bit of a zing. Usually when I make it it becomes a two day event and I end up with 8 gallons of soup. I will eat soup till I can’t look at it anymore and the rest goes in the freezer in gallon Ziploc bags. But this looks like a quicker version, and probably incorporates many of the same flavors. It’s always a joy watching your videos. Your family exudes love, gratitude, and peace and an amazing amount of hearty food in every episode.
Any dish that has tomatoes, cabbage and onions in it has to be good. Adding all the rest then eating it on a cold day just leaves joy in my heart. Thank you and yours Tipper.
Mom-mom made a very similar soup/stew with ground beef. She would also add frozen peas, a pint jar of sweet corn she had canned, and frozen lima beans instead of the canned beans. Rather than the bisquick dumplings on top, which my family didn't care for, she would add elbow macaroni. She never used chili powder, just salt and pepper. As you say, on a cold winter's day, it made a warming, filling meal at a very low cost
Yes ma’am, my mom was a green stamp collector and she got several things. She also got my first set of china through the grocery store. I think it was Winn Dixie. I have made this cabbage soup off and on for years. It’s so good! Thanks for sharing. I just live your videos. I watch u from Kentucky.
My Mom used to make that for us, like you...on cold winter or fall days. She'd serve it with biscuits or saltines. In turn, I made it for my boys as they grew up. Fall will be here soon and I can't wait! Looks delicious!
I remember green stamps. My mom and her mother would save them up in books, then go to the "Green Stamp Store" to redeem them. I'd add 2 more cans of beans, that's just me, but as you said this is just a base soup/stew so you can add or subtract as you like. Definitely will keep this recipe. Thank you for all you do to keep our heritage alive!!!
My Mom & Grandmother made something very similar, except their recipe used canned corned beef, cabbage, onions, canned stewed tomatoes, and roughly-chopped potatoes. They called it "Red Bess", and I know of another family that called a similar recipe "Red Bessie". Never been able to find out where the name came from.
I grew up in Western Appalachia, and have never tried ramps. Your channel has made me crave a chance to try ramps, so I plan to figure out a way to get some to try. Thanks!!!
I'm Hungarian and Irish---cabbage is written on my DNA. Always looking for another way to cook with cabbage! I make something similar but with paprika (my Hungarian coming out) and whatever pork I have on hand (kielbasz, bacon, ground, ham). I also throw in whatever leftover veggies I have in fridge. I think I'll add beans next time! Thank you.
I made a big dutch oven pot of stew with hamburger & stew beef meat & mixed veggies,it was so delicious. I ate a big bowl of it with some Ritz wheat crackers. Yum 😋
Tomorrow it is supposed to be in the low 40s and rain all day here in Eastern NC. So, I am going to stay in and cook some Cabbage Patch Stew. Good Idea, Tipper.
I never heard of the cabbage patch stew but it sure looks good!! I remember my mom and grandma and aunts collected S&H Green Stamps. In college I made a cabbage soup for weight loss. It supposedly took more calories to digest it than was in it.
Yes, it was called "free soup" because it was calorie free, after you digested it. The problem, for me, was that it did not keep me full for long so I would add ground beef to it. Then it was a healthy "Keto" soup.
This might be your equivalent to what we simply call "homemade soup" in Eastern KY. I made some just the other day. The base is tomatoes like yours. We don't put in beans, but do add a can of corn and dice some potatoes. The meat is the big difference. We use a can of corned beef which falls apart and lends some nice texture to the broth. Like you, I prefer my soups/stews be really soupy so that it's not too dry when I crumble my cornbread in it. I love the sweetness the cabbage adds to it this dish. What a treat!
I have the same cookbook and have made this stew for years. Instead of water I have used dry white wine or veggie stock. I have added peppers as well. 😊so yummy!
Soup looks delicious. I will be making this soon. My husband and I eat a lot of homemade soup in the winter. Thank you for the recipe. Take care and God bless!
Tipper, I saw this video the other day and this “Cabbage Patch Stew” sounded so good I made it on Saturday evening and it was delicious! My mom gave me my first Betty Crocker Cookbook when I was 16 in 1970 and this recipe was not in that book! My husband does not Bisquick so I would never have that cookbook! I found the recipe on Pinterest ( BLIND PIG AND THE ACORN) and saved it! On this snowy Sunday I sent the “Cabbage Patch Stew” to my daughter in Baltimore MD and daughter-in-law in Winston Salem! This Stew has all the ingredients in our pantry but Fresh Cabbage! We eat our Chili with Saltines Crackers! Perfect! Thank you so much for a nice winter day recipe! MOLLY
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You are such a delight to listen to and we love your stories as much as your wonderful recipes.
"I was born a coal miner's granddaughter" with mom's family from southern OH & WV. Our version is called Slumgullion, done in the oven and starts with hamburger, cabbage and tomatoes then whatever else you have. Often includes carrots, potatoes and or turnips & onions. Layered with salt & pepper to taste & baked in a lidded roaster or whatever you have that holds it all. No water added as the tomatoes & cabbage add enough for our taste but you could. We love the cabbage to begin carmelizing with the meat. Omg, so good. We serve with a hearty bread slathered in butter, perfect for cleaning the bowl at the end. Thank you for working to keep some of these great old recipes and ways to live healthy while cheaply, alive and well for another generation.
Thank you!
Glad you have great memories of your Granny. It makes your life more fulfilled. How many women today give credit to their Granny for cooking, sewing, gardening and many other things in their lives. Hope she is still with us, today.
I get celery cheap on sale and then dehydrate a whole mess of it. It stores well dry. We’ve been making this stew since childhood. My wife added more to it with her own knowledge of herbs. She’s a dynamite cook! We skip the dumplings and go with crackers. This is so healthy and delicious! Growing the ingredients yourself makes it so much better, I agree!
Great tip about the celery 😀
Sometimes I use sausage as the meat in soups. It adds a different flavor for a change. At the end of the week, I even add some leftovers and odds and ends of veggies. My Mom used to call it Friday soup. I remember her putting some leftover macaroni and cheese in it and it was yummy. Thank you for your version and your memories around the stew.
We dehydrate okra by the sack full...I always throw it in the freezer but you wouldn't need to.
Franklin, NC here...
I freeze the celery chopped, it works great too.
Tipper, your cabbage stew looks delicious much like some thing my mother used to make. With my mother and father both gone I always find it comforting to listen to your voice, you sound like home. How I miss those days. I think I will be trying your version of cabbage stew have a wonderful day, you bring much joy to this southern girl who lives among the Yankees.
I make a similar stew/soup but use chicken more often than beef. Also, I use chicken broth instead of water and sometimes add a can of Rotel to spice it up a bit... Sometimes I'll bundle up and eat it on the deck by the Hiwassee River... The cool air, sound of water rippling, and tasty hot and hearty stew makes a great combo! :)
Jerry Roberts I add Rotel tomatoes to so many things. Love em!
" bundle up and eat it on the deck by the Hiwassee River... The cool air, sound of water rippling, and tasty hot and hearty stew makes a great combo! :) " Thank you for such a warm and happy visual. I know My Day is coming! Be Blessed!
@@IShallNotBeSilent that sounds like a perfect place to eat. Stay warm and healthy.
@@terryboyer1342 Rotel is a mainstay for my cooking
I would usually use chicken broth instead of water in all my soups
Thank you Miss. Tipper.
Openings home grown/canned tomatoes is like opening a jar of the essence of summer.
I did the same for my own 5 kids. I got the silverware sets - I learned to do this from my mom, who did this for all of us 6 kids. (They were wedding gifts.) I remember the Eagle stamps, Green Stamps, Box Tops, etc.
Thanks for the recipe, and the video.
Yes, however green stamps were back in the 70s not in the 80s. When, you filled up the books, you could turn them in at your local grocery stores for merchandise they featured or you could go to one of the True Value Stamp Stores and use them. Box Tops didn’t start till the mid to late 70s, but, you couldn’t really use them for personal use, that was more to help purchase things for schools they needed, similar to the Campbell Soup Labels. There was a way you could use the box tops for personal use but, we mostly turned them in at school.
@@sonyafox3271 Yep, I helped my mom lick the stamps into the Green Stamp booklets. I justed Box Tops - and now they're gone, too.
One of my grandma's favorite treasures was Pinkie and Blueboy framed prints. She got them with green stamps and they hung in her bedroom. Not many decor items in her house but these were special. She lived to 99 2/3 with just a few years in a nursing home. I don 't know what happened to Pinky and Blueboy. I always think of her if I see one in a shop.
Celery and black eye peas . Cornbread....
Ty for another great video
Mother made a quick, easy, and delicious soup that I nicknamed Bachelor Soup.
It starts with a 46 oz. can of tomato juice. Next add a can of chili with beans. This contains all the meat and seasoning you'll need and one of the vegetables. Finally, add an assortment of 5 cans of vegetables. (I like peas, corn, tomatoes with okra, diced potato, and mixed veg.). Most are undrained, but drain and rinse black beans if you use those.
Now you can go wild with options. I like chopped green chilis or hominy. Maybe I have a little leftover macaroni, pot roast, fried cabbage, rotisserie chicken, or spaghetti in the fridge. Toss it in (somewhat sparingly). This soup is a little different each time I make it, but always delicious. And, it makes enough for leftovers or for freezing. Bon appétit!
Sounds amazing!
I love cabbage. Was raised on it. My mom would send me and my sister to the store to get cabbage. We would walk to the store and get a head of cabbage. While we were walking home, we would tear off some of the leaves and munch on it on the way home. Still love chewing on raw cabbage for a snack.
This is a variation of a soup that I make often with cornbread. It’s so good, and I love one pot meals, especially in the winter. It’s also cool to hear you refer to lunch as dinner, because my family did that when I was young. It’s been lunch to me for so long now, though, that it took me a moment to get your meaning. 😂
My grandmother also saved green stamps, and I remember helping her lick the stamps to fill the books. She usually redeemed them for some kind of kitchenware which she then kindly put into my hope chest. Decades later I still have and use some of those things.
My MIL here in southeast TN., makes an amazing version of this, called Taco Soup. It’s not difficult to make, but I can *never* get mine to taste as good as hers!
She gave me the recipe years ago, but I think she was holdin’-out on me! 💯🇺🇸😉
😀 That sounds like a good soup!
My family loves Taco soup. I keep the ingredients for it on hand all of the time.
@@CelebratingAppalachia - Hot taco soup, sprinkled with some sharp cheddar and a large dollop of sour cream. We scoop it with tortilla chips.
Make your tongue slap the roof of your mouth out. 👍🏻
I made this stew this afternoon for my youngest son and my husband of 36 years and they both loved it. I didn’t put any celery, I didn’t have any but I put steamed sliced carrots in. I served it with cat head biscuits (made with lard and butter) and no dumplings. Thank you so much for sharing, everyone loved it!
Wonderful!
Cabbage Patch Stew is new to me, Tipper, but it won't be for long. I'm adding it to my cold weather comfort food recipe file. Thanks for sharing it!
When I was a young mom, Hamburger Helper had a stew version with a cabbage patch stew recipe. All you added was the hamburger meat and the cabbage. It was delicious. I was so sad when they discontinued the stew variety of Hamburger Helper. So happy to get this recipe.
Have you noticed that everything good gets discontinued? Patricia Gambino Harrington
I miss how good the Beef Pasta kind was. I purchased it a couple of years ago to prepare for my son for the sake of nostalgia and it was NOT good AT ALL!! I ended up just making homemade beef pasta that was much better. I was so disappointed, though.
I make a soup very similar, call it refrigerator soup! Thank you so much for your simple, down-home recipes. I feel so comforted watching your videos❣️
That's so good a cold day. Thanks Tipper.
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This is very good grub on a winters day. It's much like "Amish soup". My wife and I both cook and love meals like this. Believe it or not, sometimes if you don't feel like going to the store for fresh onions, keep some onion flakes or dried onions on hand. They'll work in a pot of beans or even in chili and soup. We're like you on adding a little chili powder to soups and stews, especially vegetable beef soup. My late mother-in-law always put a can of tomato puree and a tablespoon of chili powder in her vegetable soup. We're fortunate in that we have a seed store in town where we buy spices, dried onions and garlic. Sometimes doctors will say to me, "You should lose that bay window hanging out there in front." I simply act surprised and ask them why that when they were in medical school they didn't learn that's called table muscle. Word in our family is "Never get between grandpa and the groceries."
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I love homemade soups. Vegetable soup with hamburger, clam chowder, string bean soup w/taters and corn dumplings, potato soup, chicken and rice with dumplings, bean soups of all kinds! Throw in some saltines, or gold fish crackers, or cornbread or whatever you want! That’s good eatin!
Ohh your soups sound delicious show us a video of u cookin!
Now the memory of Green stamps.Mama had a special drawer in the kitchen for collecting in the books!
Thank you for the receipt. Have you watched The Vannage Point? He does a lot of family names of Appalachia and where they come from. He told me my daddy’s name (Enterkin) is very rare and comes from Dumfries I nearly cried at 71 I’ve always wanted to know something about him as I lost him when I was 11.
I haven't watched his videos-will have to check him out. I'm so glad you learned something about your daddy 😀
I can vegetable soup every few years. It's one of my pride and joy recipes that looks beautiful in the jars. Years back I canned over 100 quarts. It has served us well and each can was delicious regardless of my ingredients. I add ground beef and a few odds and ends vegetables plus water and more tomatoes. We eat it with cornbread. So yummy and comforting. 😋
I learned to make a stew very similar over 60 years ago. The one basic difference was the addition of potato chunks instead of the beans. I, too, still make it today and love to use my home canned tomatoes. I enjoyed your description of your feelings about using the food you canned from your garden. I love that feeling of satisfaction when I see the shining glass jars filled with the result of my labor in the garden and in the kitchen. I love your program and have shared it with friends.
I’ve made this for years, my aunt gave me the recipe. I had never known about the dumplings and never made them🥰. I love this soup so easy and good!
It is easy and good 😀 Thank you for watching!
Seems like it hits a lot of the same notes as Golabki (Polish stuffed cabbage), but a lot less work. I am feeling like I really want to try this! Thank you for sharing this.
My mom was a master at using bits of leftovers to make delicious soups. There was often just a "smidgen" of meat as she called it but she was able to extract maximum flavor from it. To this day I don't know how she made it so delicious.
My mom cooked this way too. Her secret for rich vegetable soups was a few tablespoons of tomato paste & a generous sprinkle of Italian seasoning blend. If you don't have this seasoning, half a packet of dry Italian salad dressing mix can work too. Just mind adding salt.
@@elmerbefuddled2156 I have heard of using tomato paste... Lydia Bastianich often does this in her cooking and toasts it a bit in the bottom of the pan. Thanks
This looks so good. And I have all the ingredients. Thanks for posting all you do. My husband and I enjoy watching your channel together.
Thanks so much 😀
Yes Tipper, my Mama saved up S&H Green Stamps...books and books. She had so many that she sent them off and got me a real pretty rocking chair for my 10th birthday. ❤ Then when I was in the 5th grade a long, long time ago I started saving Betty Crocker Coupons. My neighbor saved them for me and my Aunt Minerva. By the time I got married, I had a Onieda Stainless Flatware Set. Then I saved up for the serving spoons and the meat fork and slotted spoons. I had every kitchen utensil that they offered. Those coupons were so useful.
Your soup is going to be included in my soup rotation from now on.❤
I’m going to make this this weekend as the temps are due to go down 0-12 deg’s and this sounds perfect. I’ll use ground Turkey and leeks as substitutes. I just love 1 pot meals 😋 thank you Tipper
I love the idea of using leeks!
I use leeks too
I truly adore you. The cooking videos are my favorite. You remind me of a people and a time long past; It's bittersweet. Our country has lost so much.
The cabbage patch stew looks and sounds delicious! I agree with you about the memories stored in each jar of food I can. Not only of canning that jar, but I go back to helping Mama can when I was growing up.
My mom had a Bisquick cookbook. When I went away to college, I was either on the limited or not at all on the meal plan over the 4 years. She let me take her Bisquick cookbook with me. I kept quite the grocery pantry in my room and had a fridge and small chest freezer in my room as well. I would make all kinds of yummy stuff with a microwave, toaster oven, and electric skillet! I would get a whim and make cinnamon rolls or apple crisp with bisquick and oats, but had to bake them in the floor kitchen oven. The other floor dwellers would chase me down the hall wanting what I made! 😁
Takes me back to my youth. My German grandfather would make a soup very similar. He would always make it on a Saturday, and He ALWAYS used a knuckle bone or beef shanks for flavor, he added carrots and potatoes too. Thanks for the memories.
Good thing to have I hear tell y’all are going to get a whole lotta snow and an ice storm.
Stay warm stay safe
I love the closeness of your wonderfull family and your great cooking is just another added bonus!! LOVE YOUR VIDEO,S!
I’ll make a big batch of this tomorrow to have for the weekend. We’re getting snow on Sunday and this will be just the thing. Edit: I made a huge pot of this soup today and I’m so glad I did. It’s absolutely delicious. My family raved and for sure, I’ll be making this again and again. Gracious! Thank you for sharing the recipe.
It will be good for a snow day 😀
12:02…I love how happy and excited you look. Gleeful anticipation.
Tipper, I have made this several times now thanks to you. Everyone I serve it to just loves it! My aunt is 95 and I am taking her some today. She just loves it!
It is very pleasing to thos Georgia girl!
I'm so glad I've finally found somebody besides me that says dinner and supper....not use dinner to describe supper time. We were taught breakfast, dinner and supper. Lunch was something you had at school or eating from a sack as in sack lunch. Thank you Tipper!
That looks delicious! My grandmother used to can tomatoes from the garden and I really miss them. She made "chili soup" which is similar - take out the cabbage and add elbow macaroni and you have it. She got the recipe in her highschool home ec class in the 1920s.
This sounds delicious and I will definitely be making it soon. I loved the story about your Granny. I remember my Mom collecting dishes and towels from laundry soap boxes. She was always saving coupons as well to send away to get cookbooks. I still have the first ones I sent away for when I was maybe around twelve. Thank you for a wonderful recipe and a lovely video.
Looks delicious Tipper! My recipe calls for 1 cup of uncooked rice added at the end to this soup. I also add Worcestershire sauce. Anyway you make this, it’s good and seems like a healthy meal. I like to serve it with your crunchy cornbread. Yummy!
I’ve made a similar cabbage soup, but didn’t add meat or beans. Looks good and with the winter storm coming it would be tasty hot soup to make. Thank you for sharing!
Was your's the one for the Cabbage Soup Diet? my Mom and one of her friends used to make that all the time. I loved it! I'm not much of a celery eater but I could eat it in that.
I live in the foothills of Appalachia in MS, my grandmother was part native American and we always ate this way. Fried squirrel dumpling, fried deer tenderloin or fried dove breast with biscuits ant gravy for breakfast was a few of my favorites. She taught me how to cook even her meal gravy over fresh homegrown sliced tomatoes, that is my favorite. Your show reminds me of her, thank you.
I make a similar soup with short ribs ,stew meat or hamburger ,potatoes,lots of onion and cabbage .I add carrots ,celery and tomatoes if I have them. No beans though i love most beans. It's so good with cornbread or even a slice of buttered light bread.
Evening Miss Tipper almost on time. Hve a nice day.
Good evening 😀 I hope you've had a good day!
Looks delicious, Tipper. I loved your thoughts and emotions surrounding your home-canned tomatoes. I feel the same way.
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Grandpaw used to grow the best tomatoes in McDowell County WV.... seeing your canned homegrown fresh tomatoes reminded me him. Thank you for sharing.
I loved hearing you call your mid-day meal dinner. Our family always said Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper. We were from the country and our city cousins called it lunch. When you are working on a dairy farm you need a good hearty meal to get you through the rest of your day
That Wesson oil measuring cup is an oldie. I am 69 and remember it way back.
oh that looks so good! I am laid up with the epizudic and that would hit the spot. I did manage to put some homemade chicken soup in the crock pot this morning. I can't wait to hear the rest of the Mountain Path chapter. Your channel and your blog are such a high spot of my day. Thank you!
Sorry you're feeling under the weather! Hope you're better soon. Glad you enjoy our videos 😀
Hope you're feeling better soon! 💕
that looks absolutely delicious!! I love onions but they tend to hurt my stomach these days. Anything with cabbage and home-canned tomatoes would be some really good eating. Loved the back story of your mom collecting box tops and green stamps and getting kitchen gadgets for ya'll. I remember green stamps!! Oh boy tomorrow is Friday and we get to check back in with Louisa!!
Winn Dixie had green stamps. I loved licking them and putting in the books.
I usually make beef barley soup or ham and pea soup. I've never tried this before. Looks delicious! 💜
That was a good recipe and looked delicious. I would make this. You are a good cook with those wonderful foods. Enjoy listening and keep up the good foods.
So wonderful that you saved the original cookbook and great to hear the story behind it.
I remember eating that when my grandma was with us. Thanks for the memories.
"Quality Stamps" from Big Star in Mississippi. I swear my mom bought half our groceries and kitchenware using those things! Thanks for the great memories!
This cabbage stew is my kind of meal!!! Going to make it when I get cabbage. Thanks, Tipper, for sharing! Looking forward to more like this! God bless…love y’all! 💕🙏🏻🤗
This will be good this weekend coming up if we get the snow there talking about. Thank you for sharing.
I'm hoping we get some at least 😀
Such a lovely and descriptive way you spoke of that beautiful jar of canned tomatoes. All through the video, my eyes, mind, and mouth was focused on it, wishing I could slurping/eat them straight from the jar. Yep, have the same exact soup with dumplings recipe. I also use it as a base for Cabbage Roll Soup, minus the beans, and adding rice and Worcestershire to the pot. And Corned Beef Cabbage Soup, adding roasted corn beef, potatoes, and I carrots, seasoned with ground mustard and horse radish, minus the hamburger and chili powder. Thank you so much for taking your time to share with us. I try to read all the comments!!
I live in Kentucky and i also like comforting foods especially on a cold snow day having a pot of homemade soup or soup beans on stove cooking nothing like it. They can all these restaurant foods they want ill take southern food any day. Thanks for sharing your videos with us it brings me joy.God bless.
Wow, pot-liquor....a few years ago I met a man 100 years old and asked him to come over fir dinner and what would he like? He said, "any dish with pot liquor at the bottom", well I made him a version of Tomatoes and beef with a thinner yunmy sauce that made him do happy. I also baked him a black walnut cake, he loved it. I know he was from southeast US, but not sure. He passed in 2020 at 103 years old, what a sweet man. Thanks for bringing up such good memories, isn't wonderful what food does for our hearts.
I remember green stamps. I remember an aunt saving tons of them and turning them in for a set of pots and pans. I remember the Kroger in town had a display of the set you could get. I used to stick the stamps on little cards for her. =)
Not sure where l learned to make it but I make something similar I call Cabbage Patch Soup. Mine just has hamburger, onion, canned stewed tomatoes, can of water, and a head of cabbage. Just cook down until cabbage is translucent. It's so good. I make it at least once a month. Leftovers are better than original.
Thank you Tipper
I agree about the leftovers 😀
I’m from close to the top end of the Appalachian Territory in Eastern Ohio.
We just canned tomatoes about 2-3 weeks ago, and what you said about that resonated very strongly with me-I feel exactly the same way!
Have been making this for a long time, but I make dumplings. There’s nothing that tastes quite like cabbage patch stew-but it’s so good, it makes even cabbage haters a quick fan of this soup :)
I'm going to fix this, it looks delicious ....thank you for sharing ....Stay safe with this winter storm that's coming this weekend .... Hugs from the North Ga Mountains
Thank you for sharing! I use seasoned ground sausage
with northern white beans and all you mentioned. My family loves it ~
I think more then my ham and cabbage or ham and beans!
Love the Betty Crocker cookbooks!!!
Cooking is an art. ❤️
Thank you for watching!
And baking is science
Making it tomorrow. I get stuck sometimes with my cooking and need a pleasant reminder of what to cook. I haven't made this in years..........Thanks!
I have never made a soup with cabbage but we love cabbage and hamburger soup. I will definitely try this. My granny and her sister always canned tomatoes. So delicious. I loved them washed and warm from the sun eaten like an apple with lots of salt. They are my favorite food. Not chocolate or cake or steak, fresh home grown tomatoes. Granny and Auntie also put up a soup mix with tomatoes and other vegs. They canned it and froze it. You just added your meat and maybe some potatoes and you had a wonderful soup with all those home grown vegetables in it. I have tried and failed several times to grow tomatoes. I only had a success once with cherry ones, never got big ones.
I remember green stamps well.
My MawMaw and mama would save all year and ooh-wee the presents we got for Christmas!
Sweet memories...
You talking about canning was pure poetry.
My mom would make this soup with her leftover Sunday roast. So yummy especially on a cold winters day 😋 Thank you for sharing!
My wife makes this,soup, all the time. It’s a variation but very similar. Love soup in the winter!😊🇨🇦
My grandma let me cook whatever i wanted too! And i love to cook. Thank u grandmas who loved us so much!
You just gave the best description of why home canning is such a wonderful thing to do. I make hamburger soup, which is pretty much the same thing. Cabbage patch stew is such a better name for this filling yummy stew/soup. Love your channel, it's a breathe of fresh air in a busy world.
I will have to try this with the ground beef.
One of my very favorite meals that I have made for years is just a beef vegetable soup.
People often asked me what the secret ingredient is. I actually have two secret ingredients. One is the cabbage, and the other is throwing in a hot pepper that gives it a little bit of a zing.
Usually when I make it it becomes a two day event and I end up with 8 gallons of soup. I will eat soup till I can’t look at it anymore and the rest goes in the freezer in gallon Ziploc bags.
But this looks like a quicker version, and probably incorporates many of the same flavors.
It’s always a joy watching your videos. Your family exudes love, gratitude, and peace and an amazing amount of hearty food in every episode.
That’s sounds wonderful! Thank you 😊
I made the Cabbage Patch Stew just the other day. My husband loved it. He said I could eat that again! Thanks for recipe. 😊
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Any dish that has tomatoes, cabbage and onions in it has to be good. Adding all the rest then eating it on a cold day just leaves joy in my heart. Thank you and yours Tipper.
Mom-mom made a very similar soup/stew with ground beef. She would also add frozen peas, a pint jar of sweet corn she had canned, and frozen lima beans instead of the canned beans. Rather than the bisquick dumplings on top, which my family didn't care for, she would add elbow macaroni. She never used chili powder, just salt and pepper. As you say, on a cold winter's day, it made a warming, filling meal at a very low cost
Sounds so good 😀
I think I've heard of this before. Grew up in Eastern Kentucky.
Thank you for watching 😀 It's a tasty stew 😀
That soup looks so good. Got to try it soon.thanks tipper.
Hope you enjoy 😀
Yes ma’am, my mom was a green stamp collector and she got several things. She also got my first set of china through the grocery store. I think it was Winn Dixie. I have made this cabbage soup off and on for years. It’s so good! Thanks for sharing. I just live your videos. I watch u from Kentucky.
My Mom used to make that for us, like you...on cold winter or fall days. She'd serve it with biscuits or saltines. In turn, I made it for my boys as they grew up. Fall will be here soon and I can't wait! Looks delicious!
I remember green stamps. My mom and her mother would save them up in books, then go to the "Green Stamp Store" to redeem them. I'd add 2 more cans of beans, that's just me, but as you said this is just a base soup/stew so you can add or subtract as you like. Definitely will keep this recipe. Thank you for all you do to keep our heritage alive!!!
My Mom & Grandmother made something very similar, except their recipe used canned corned beef, cabbage, onions, canned stewed tomatoes, and roughly-chopped potatoes. They called it "Red Bess", and I know of another family that called a similar recipe "Red Bessie". Never been able to find out where the name came from.
I grew up in Western Appalachia, and have never tried ramps. Your channel has made me crave a chance to try ramps, so I plan to figure out a way to get some to try. Thanks!!!
I am watching all your videos since I found your channel. Your helping a guy get better at cooking. thanks
I'm Hungarian and Irish---cabbage is written on my DNA. Always looking for another way to cook with cabbage! I make something similar but with paprika (my Hungarian coming out) and whatever pork I have on hand (kielbasz, bacon, ground, ham). I also throw in whatever leftover veggies I have in fridge. I think I'll add beans next time! Thank you.
I made a big dutch oven pot of stew with hamburger & stew beef meat & mixed veggies,it was so delicious. I ate a big bowl of it with some Ritz wheat crackers. Yum 😋
Tomorrow it is supposed to be in the low 40s and rain all day here in Eastern NC. So, I am going to stay in and cook some Cabbage Patch Stew. Good Idea, Tipper.
I never heard of the cabbage patch stew but it sure looks good!! I remember my mom and grandma and aunts collected S&H Green Stamps. In college I made a cabbage soup for weight loss. It supposedly took more calories to digest it than was in it.
Yes, it was called "free soup" because it was calorie free, after you digested it. The problem, for me, was that it did not keep me full for long so I would add ground beef to it. Then it was a healthy "Keto" soup.
This might be your equivalent to what we simply call "homemade soup" in Eastern KY. I made some just the other day. The base is tomatoes like yours. We don't put in beans, but do add a can of corn and dice some potatoes. The meat is the big difference. We use a can of corned beef which falls apart and lends some nice texture to the broth. Like you, I prefer my soups/stews be really soupy so that it's not too dry when I crumble my cornbread in it. I love the sweetness the cabbage adds to it this dish. What a treat!
I have the same cookbook and have made this stew for years. Instead of water I have used dry white wine or veggie stock. I have added peppers as well. 😊so yummy!
Soup looks delicious. I will be making this soon. My husband and I eat a lot of homemade soup in the winter. Thank you for the recipe. Take care and God bless!
I love Revere Ware. I have a combination of three sets; mine from 48 years ago, my mother and mother in laws from the 50’s. Still great.
That is so cool that Granny did that. I remember that cook book. Thank you for a great video. God bless.
Tipper, I saw this video the other day and this “Cabbage Patch Stew” sounded so good I made it on Saturday evening and it was delicious! My mom gave me my first Betty Crocker Cookbook when I was 16 in 1970 and this recipe was not in that book! My husband does not Bisquick so I would never have that cookbook! I found the recipe on Pinterest ( BLIND PIG AND THE ACORN) and saved it! On this snowy Sunday I sent the “Cabbage Patch Stew” to my daughter in Baltimore MD and daughter-in-law in Winston Salem! This Stew has all the ingredients in our pantry but Fresh Cabbage! We eat our Chili with Saltines Crackers! Perfect! Thank you so much for a nice winter day recipe! MOLLY
Yay! So glad you enjoyed it too 😀