I was raised in GA. The last Stew I had was from Hudson in Douglasville. By far the best stew I've eaten in my travels as a trucker. I moved to MO and no one has a clue what Brunswick Stew is! I haven't had any since 1997! Now Missouri will get to enjoy smelling my stew it as it cooks! Thanks for the recipe!
Haha I from Douglasville and love me some Hudson's. How ever as good as there's is the best Ive had comes a little place in Macon Ga called Finches bbq.
@@joshhaywood0915 Josh , I was eating Finche’s BBQ and Brunswick stew in Macon in 1964 for the first time . Also was a place there called Tucker’s that was good .Dont forget Fresh Air BBQ up near Jackson if you ever get a chance !
My Mother use to make this just the way you did on the video (even using a meat grinder). She never went by a recipe that I know of and never wrote it down. I have sent you an email asking you for the amount of each ingredient and directions for this stew. I would love to be able to surprise my family and bring back some wonderful memories of our Mother. Thank you!!
I’m from North Carolina and the first time I ever had Brunswick stew was visiting family in Georgia! I fell in love with it.. so when I came back to NC and ordered their Brunswick stew I was very unhappy because it wasn’t the same at all! I hope this recipe tastes like what I had!!! I can’t wait to try it!!!! :):)
From Georgia here and this is pretty much how we do it but we don’t use beef and we smoke the chicken. Looks delicious, I can taste it through the screen. I am getting my first batch of Fall made up this week.
Hi Cohort, I am from Georgia also and I like your recipe. This is very similar to the way I remember Brunswick stew that my grandmother would make as a kid. I remember her sitting by the pot stirring constantly. I know why, as you say, because I have tried to make it and scorched the crap out of it and had to dump it all out! I remember her using a huge cauldron, which I guess helps keep it from burning on the bottom. But of course she was making it for 50+ people. Thanks for the great video!
Thank you, it good to hear stories like yours. When I was a small kid my mama would make it and I was the one that had to crank the meat grinder and stir the pot. Lol. Great memories!!
Cohort227. Yep, I provided the power for that meat grinder also, but I had the most fun doing it. Let me ask you, did y'all ever make a big pot of pear relish? That was another recipe that called for the meat grinder. Yes, those was some great memories.
Real deal Georgia Boy here... thats how real bruswick stew is cooked. Anything else is a fake or an impostor. You earned a like and a sub. I even rang the bell!
Really nice video and description. Love your accent and it is very close to how my folks talk from Danville,VA. I'm in the middle (NC). Learned to make stew from some old hands at the ruritan club. They don't grind.They cut into small cubes and cook it til it falls apart in strings. Oldtimer said it needed to have at least one squirrel in there to be authentic. Thanks for the recipe.
North Georgia here. Only difference is we add potatoes which get ground up too and no vinegar. Rest is the same. Great Eatin’ with pulled pork sandwich. Thanks for sharing!
Made 1 1/2 gallons of Brunswick stew years ago with deer and squirrel. Brought it to a housewarming and it was gone in less than an hour. I followed an old Appalachian cookery given to me by an Amish guy out of Lancaster PA. He called it "Must Go Stew". Basically, emptied out the fridge into a big kettle.
I raised my children in both Virginia and another 15 years in Georgia There was not ONE time I had squirrel or opossum other than maybe a little deer loin on occasion!! I wouldnt say Virginia is all wild meat at all!! Maybe the turn of the century when thats all they had but NO SIR!! Its pretty much what you made right there!! Glad to see it!! It has all the components of a proper Brunswick thanks for posting!! Its DELISH to say the least!!!
I am from Georgia and live on the border of Virginia now. The classic Virginia Brunswick stew is in fact, wild game meat. That’s not what most families serve now but that is the original Brunswick stew of Virginia until they adapted the Georgia recipe. It’s still not the same as Georgia Brunswick but similar and only because they use the Georgia fixings, some places it’s not even similar. No need to yell at the man, he wasn’t wrong.
First experience with Brunswick stew was at a restaurant called Hickory House in Charlotte, NC. Yours closely resembles what they served. He closed down some years ago. Would love to make this.
Cohort227 - just found this video. I lived in Florida for a while, so a Southerner at heart, but now in Michigan, but that stew looks awesome, makes me hungry in the middle of night. Thanks for sharing!
Actually found this vid from a Commodore 64 vid you did way back in the day when you we're in the military..you are just about my age..kinda crazy how time flies, ain't it..1989 doesn't seem that long ago
The history that you shared is interesting. I like to think that it originated here in GA. I have visited the "pot" at St. Simmons. I live a little further up than you, (north of Atlanta, in the mountains) and I enjoy making Brunswick Stew. I make it a whole lot differently than you but yours looks really good. Best wishes my friend.
I heard you say middle GA and I'm in Warner Robins. I make the stew once or twice a year when it gets cool. I have some pulled pork from a butt in the freezer now. I bought a whole chicken today and may use it but my wife does not like dark meat so maybe not. I have never used beef in mine but that could change. Just never thought of it.
Finally found a video of someone making the Brunswick stew I grew up with. The last pot I made I ground up 4 ornamental peppers & added them, It was an addictive hotness that took stew over the top. I don’t believe stew should have BAR- B-Q or sauce in it. Boil our meat & grind everything. Too much pork broth will ruin it also.
that's the way I remember my mom making it. we did it in a 25 gal iron pot outside and she would can the extra. We are just south of Atlanta. She never used a recipe just did it by color and feel, I would love to have your recipe to try and get close to what she made.
That's how you cook a stew right there, Hoss. I don't use those store-bought sauces or liquid smoke. Back in the day we hand ground the meat. The electric grinder is so much easier.
I was born in Ga. but never really had true Brunswick stew till I lived in Va. got to have Ga. since then. Also here in Alabama(Georgia style) Both excellent. Not sure I can get it cooked like that.
Greetings from one county up Hwy 441! I have a great 20 gallon pot that we make stew in that's very similar to yours. Unfortunately one of its ears is broken off and also needs to have its legs extended. Do you know anyone in the area who welds these pots very well? Thanks!
The problem with Georgia Brunswick stew is noone writes down the recipe. Every basically seasons to taste in a big cauldron and that's why in some places in Georgia the stew is thicker than hashand other places it's more soupy than an actual stew. I love stew but all the elders who had the recipe in their head are gone to glory and the recipe is long forgotten
Sorry my bad I meant to say how to make a homemade burner but we got it figured out thank you that was Sunday we took 25 gallons of Brunswick stew turned out good
looks like mush or a paste of some sort... nothing like any stew (meat always shredded, never ground; veggies never ground) that I have had in my 60+ years on this earth... I guess if I am ever in GA during the fall/winter time frame I will give it a try.
That's the way I was tout how to make it but we have a secret thing we add to make it better you would love it if you tried it if you go out of Georgia people make vegetable soup and add meat and call it Brunswick Stew you would be so disappointed in them
My Great great grandfather came from Brunswick County Virginia to Jasper County Georgia in 1810. This is about the same recipe that our family used as passed down from Virginia. Yes ,some ingredients are modern substitutes but mostly the same and squirrel and rabbit are appropriate too .Our family also used potatoes. Some folks complain about grinding everything but they probably have never eaten a rooster or Turkey that is a couple years old.
Not to argue but how do slaves get rabbit and squirrel? They certainly didn't have shotguns, and trapping would have allowed them to go about as free as anybody. Either way like I said in the video its a subjective topic and I was only showing what a Brunswick stew looks like from Middle Georgia. Been cooked that way here since before my time and I am 50 years old.
Cohort227 It was given to them. The plantation owners ate the expensive beef and pork themselves, and gave the slaves the squirrel meat they got for free.
+hulk hogan Well that doesn't make sense since it was developed around 1898 about 30 years after slavery ended. Maybe the yankees up in Virginia use rabbit and squirrel but here in Georgia this is how its made.
Chris.... I’m assuming you watched the whole Video? You watched every ingredient go in... what’s your problem? Texture? Grow up! Or post a better video.
I was raised in GA. The last Stew I had was from Hudson in Douglasville. By far the best stew I've eaten in my travels as a trucker. I moved to MO and no one has a clue what Brunswick Stew is! I haven't had any since 1997!
Now Missouri will get to enjoy smelling my stew it as it cooks! Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks
Haha I from Douglasville and love me some Hudson's. How ever as good as there's is the best Ive had comes a little place in Macon Ga called Finches bbq.
Wish they would sell this at Williamson bros. In douglasville
@@joshhaywood0915 Josh , I was eating Finche’s BBQ and Brunswick stew in Macon in 1964 for the first time . Also was a place there called Tucker’s that was good .Dont forget Fresh Air BBQ up near Jackson if you ever get a chance !
@@lindayoung1954 are you from Macon? If so did you happen to know the last name Haywood?
My Mother use to make this just the way you did on the video (even using a meat grinder). She never went by a recipe that I know of and never wrote it down. I have sent you an email asking you for the amount of each ingredient and directions for this stew. I would love to be able to surprise my family and bring back some wonderful memories of our Mother. Thank you!!
Yvonne Burdette. Hello, did you get a recipe?
I’m from North Carolina and the first time I ever had Brunswick stew was visiting family in Georgia! I fell in love with it.. so when I came back to NC and ordered their Brunswick stew I was very unhappy because it wasn’t the same at all! I hope this recipe tastes like what I had!!! I can’t wait to try it!!!! :):)
I'm from Georgia also and this is what I grew up eating! Looks fantastic!
Where are you these days?
Same!
This is what I've been looking for!!! Looks just like the stew I've always eaten here in NE Georgia.
From Georgia here and this is pretty much how we do it but we don’t use beef and we smoke the chicken. Looks delicious, I can taste it through the screen. I am getting my first batch of Fall made up this week.
Looks good! No beans, peas, diced carrots or bla bla in the mix. Reminds me of Melear's BBQ when they were still around in Union City GA.
Now this is the real GA Brunswick stew that I grew up on, now all you need is some saltines and the Dawgs on tv whippin butt!
Thanks Bubby
no green pepper, onions or celery??
Hi Cohort, I am from Georgia also and I like your recipe. This is very similar to the way I remember Brunswick stew that my grandmother would make as a kid. I remember her sitting by the pot stirring constantly. I know why, as you say, because I have tried to make it and scorched the crap out of it and had to dump it all out!
I remember her using a huge cauldron, which I guess helps keep it from burning on the bottom. But of course she was making it for 50+ people.
Thanks for the great video!
Thank you, it good to hear stories like yours. When I was a small kid my mama would make it and I was the one that had to crank the meat grinder and stir the pot. Lol. Great memories!!
Cohort227. Yep, I provided the power for that meat grinder also, but I had the most fun doing it. Let me ask you, did y'all ever make a big pot of pear relish? That was another recipe that called for the meat grinder. Yes, those was some great memories.
Never had Brunswick Stew but with those ingredients it would be a winner at our house. Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year to you and your family.
Real deal Georgia Boy here... thats how real bruswick stew is cooked. Anything else is a fake or an impostor. You earned a like and a sub. I even rang the bell!
Haven't had Brunswick stew since I was in NC. Thanks for the recipe!
Everyday BBQ under
I’m from Monticello and your stew is pretty much dead on to ours. Beautiful ! I had to sub !
I'm from Savannah and I always love brunswich stew growing up
Really nice video and description. Love your accent and it is very close to how my folks talk from Danville,VA. I'm in the middle (NC). Learned to make stew from some old hands at the ruritan club. They don't grind.They cut into small cubes and cook it til it falls apart in strings. Oldtimer said it needed to have at least one squirrel in there to be authentic. Thanks for the recipe.
North Georgia here. Only difference is we add potatoes which get ground up too and no vinegar. Rest is the same. Great Eatin’ with pulled pork sandwich. Thanks for sharing!
South side of the atl here, this is it. Perfect.
Made 1 1/2 gallons of Brunswick stew years ago with deer and squirrel. Brought it to a housewarming and it was gone in less than an hour. I followed an old Appalachian cookery given to me by an Amish guy out of Lancaster PA. He called it "Must Go Stew". Basically, emptied out the fridge into a big kettle.
I raised my children in both Virginia and another 15 years in Georgia There was not ONE time I had squirrel or opossum other than maybe a little deer loin on occasion!! I wouldnt say Virginia is all wild meat at all!! Maybe the turn of the century when thats all they had but NO SIR!! Its pretty much what you made right there!! Glad to see it!! It has all the components of a proper Brunswick thanks for posting!! Its DELISH to say the least!!!
Thank you!
I am from Georgia and live on the border of Virginia now. The classic Virginia Brunswick stew is in fact, wild game meat. That’s not what most families serve now but that is the original Brunswick stew of Virginia until they adapted the Georgia recipe. It’s still not the same as Georgia Brunswick but similar and only because they use the Georgia fixings, some places it’s not even similar. No need to yell at the man, he wasn’t wrong.
First experience with Brunswick stew was at a restaurant called Hickory House in Charlotte, NC. Yours closely resembles what they served. He closed down some years ago. Would love to make this.
Cohort227 - just found this video. I lived in Florida for a while, so a Southerner at heart, but now in Michigan, but that stew looks awesome, makes me hungry in the middle of night. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Eric!
Actually found this vid from a Commodore 64 vid you did way back in the day when you we're in the military..you are just about my age..kinda crazy how time flies, ain't it..1989 doesn't seem that long ago
You got that right. Seems like yesterday.
The history that you shared is interesting. I like to think that it originated here in GA. I have visited the "pot" at St. Simmons. I live a little further up than you, (north of Atlanta, in the mountains) and I enjoy making Brunswick Stew. I make it a whole lot differently than you but yours looks really good. Best wishes my friend.
Thanks Buddy!
I heard you say middle GA and I'm in Warner Robins. I make the stew once or twice a year when it gets cool. I have some pulled pork from a butt in the freezer now. I bought a whole chicken today and may use it but my wife does not like dark meat so maybe not. I have never used beef in mine but that could change. Just never thought of it.
My mama in law in Georgia makes the best Brunswick stew, loved it from first bite I had!
Ask her for the recipe please and post it here if possible
Finally found a video of someone making the Brunswick stew I grew up with. The last pot I made I ground up 4 ornamental peppers & added them, It was an addictive hotness that took stew over the top. I don’t believe stew should have BAR- B-Q or sauce in it. Boil our meat & grind everything. Too much pork broth will ruin it also.
that's the way I remember my mom making it. we did it in a 25 gal iron pot outside and she would can the extra. We are just south of Atlanta. She never used a recipe just did it by color and feel, I would love to have your recipe to try and get close to what she made.
Love your recipe and love your accent!
It looks so good. I always wondered how to get that consistency. Thanks
That's how you cook a stew right there, Hoss. I don't use those store-bought sauces or liquid smoke. Back in the day we hand ground the meat. The electric grinder is so much easier.
You got that right!
Nice! And I love the pot. Where can I buy one
Looks gooood
We make it once a year. Thanks for the video
Oh wow...I was surprised you put the meat through the grinder. Looks great through!
Valley, Alabama here... looks like the stuff I cut teeth on.
Great recipe You have got it right Thankyou
Nicely done!
That stew looks perfect!
Thanks :)
Wilkes Ga here. Grew up on this. would love to get the recipe if at all possible. Great vids new to the channel.
I see the ingredients for this stew, do you have a recipe for amounts . Looks like what I grew up on.
Thank you dear sir!
hell yea my fellow georgia neighbor... newton co. here
Hi there form NW GA
Where did you get your pot? I'm born and raised in Georgia actually north Georgia it's the basic same recipe as mine except for potatoes
I was born in Ga. but never really had true Brunswick stew till I lived in Va. got to have Ga. since then. Also here in Alabama(Georgia style) Both excellent. Not sure I can get it cooked like that.
Greetings from one county up Hwy 441! I have a great 20 gallon pot that we make stew in that's very similar to yours. Unfortunately one of its ears is broken off and also needs to have its legs extended. Do you know anyone in the area who welds these pots very well? Thanks!
I'm in middle Georgia too. Looks tasty! Do you have a good local BBQ sauce recipe?
Great post!
What is the base your pot is suspended on and cooking your stew? Where can I purchase one? Great video.
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THERE best I've had eaten I grew up eating Brunswick stew from Ga..
Damn Brother, that makes me Homesick!!
do you have a recipe for that stew I saw your ingredient list
Where are you from James and do you have an email address? or You can email me at Cohort227@gmail.com
What part of Ga you live. Our family recipe is very close
Morgan County, how about you?
Is there any way i can get a more detailed recipe , id love to make this for my family
Oh yes! Almost like Alabama style.we use Heinz 57.good vid.
Great videos. How have you enjoyed your Carolina Cooker?
I love it. I wish I had more time to use it. Thanks
Best stew I've ever eaten :)
How long was the process?
pretty decent recipe ,but there is no need to put liquid smoke in anything !
The problem with Georgia Brunswick stew is noone writes down the recipe. Every basically seasons to taste in a big cauldron and that's why in some places in Georgia the stew is thicker than hashand other places it's more soupy than an actual stew.
I love stew but all the elders who had the recipe in their head are gone to glory and the recipe is long forgotten
Can you make Brunswick stew like Wallace's bbq
That´s how you make a real fine soup.
Power tools on the counter...like my place lol.looks 👍
HI this is right on Alabama if you want to come and eat with us please come over. Pickle. From Athens AL 😊
It looks a lot like Carolina hash. Looks good.
how can I make a vest and something to cook with Brunswick stew in with a 25 gallon cast iron pot
I don't understand?
Sorry my bad I meant to say how to make a homemade burner but we got it figured out thank you that was Sunday we took 25 gallons of Brunswick stew turned out good
We used cinder blocks and Steel Rod to make a brace but next time we gotta figure out something more permanent
Im eating some now
looks like mush or a paste of some sort... nothing like any stew (meat always shredded, never ground; veggies never ground) that I have had in my 60+ years on this earth... I guess if I am ever in GA during the fall/winter time frame I will give it a try.
got to have butter beans in it!
Looks great though man
Just like my Mom taught me how to cook it.....
Just wanted to how to make Brunswick stew. Obviously I will have to look elsewhere. Sorry to offend you
DId you ever find a recipe for Brunswick stew?
May be its tasty But I dont risk
The video is good, but the audio is horrible. You need to stand closer to the mic.
The way I was tout wa
Need potatoes in stew!
That's the way I was tout how to make it but we have a secret thing we add to make it better you would love it if you tried it if you go out of Georgia people make vegetable soup and add meat and call it Brunswick Stew you would be so disappointed in them
Need potatos.
I've never had Brunswick stew where everything goes through a grinder. This looks more like BBQ hash.
Well its not! Ive been eating brunswich stew over thirty years my dad always put the meat through the grinder. GEORGIA NATIVE HERE.
with rice, and no corn
Maybe in Louisiana
If you're ever in Athens GA go by and try Fresh Air BBQ brunswick stew it's deeeelish.
BRUNSWICK STEW ISN'T FROM GEORGIA!
IT'S FROM VIRGINIA...
So is Bourbon... (Lookin at you Kentucky).
Looks tasty tho
My Great great grandfather came from Brunswick County Virginia to Jasper County Georgia in 1810. This is about the same recipe that our family used as passed down from Virginia. Yes ,some ingredients are modern substitutes but mostly the same and squirrel and rabbit are appropriate too .Our family also used potatoes. Some folks complain about grinding everything but they probably have never eaten a rooster or Turkey that is a couple years old.
I hope you have day job
Proper Brunswick has rabbit and squirrel.
+hulk hogan Maybe in the backwoods of Virginia but here in Georgia it doesn't.
Cohort227 The whole idea is that it was the food slaves could get.
Not to argue but how do slaves get rabbit and squirrel? They certainly didn't have shotguns, and trapping would have allowed them to go about as free as anybody. Either way like I said in the video its a subjective topic and I was only showing what a Brunswick stew looks like from Middle Georgia. Been cooked that way here since before my time and I am 50 years old.
Cohort227 It was given to them. The plantation owners ate the expensive beef and pork themselves, and gave the slaves the squirrel meat they got for free.
+hulk hogan Well that doesn't make sense since it was developed around 1898 about 30 years after slavery ended. Maybe the yankees up in Virginia use rabbit and squirrel but here in Georgia this is how its made.
Wrong color it should be a red color not orange oh and i live in Ga
You can call that anything you want, but it's not Brunswick stew.
Lmao at you. Come to Georgia and say that.
this is not Brunswick stew. just a big pot of ground mush that looks like shit..
chris bohn obviously you are a foreigner that is ignorant to the ways of the south and to top it off you a rude ass troll.
Chris.... I’m assuming you watched the whole
Video? You watched every ingredient go in... what’s your problem? Texture? Grow up! Or post a better video.
My Grandmother made traditional stew with squirrels and rabbits and my Dad switched to chicken and pork but it never went through a grinder