“Fuggedaboutit Roast” {the forgotten roast}
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This Forget About It Roast is a classic, 3 ingredient recipe. It’s fall apart tender, and baked low and slow. It’s the best and easiest roast I have ever made!
“Fuggedaboutit Roast” {The Forgotten Roast} is the best and the easiest roast I have ever made. I found the recipe in a church cookbook my grandma gave me back in 1985. I love finding her handwriting — it literally makes my day. I remembered this was in my hope chest for many years.
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Did you have a hope chest growing up? Mine was full of things from my grandmas, mostly. My Grandma Martin’s pie plate, and an afghan she crocheted me, tea towels my Grandma Czaplewski had embroidered for me, and this cookbook. I hadn’t had it out in a long time, but now that I do, I have been having so much fun reading through the recipes! I recently made this Chocolate Pudding Frosting from this very same cookbook!
This whole cookbook was typed on a typewriter. Can you imagine that in this day and age? Well, I don’t know Trish Franck, the person who submitted her “forgotten roast” recipe to the United Foursquare Women cookbook, but wherever you are — THANK YOU! This was amazing! My hubby LOVED it and compared it to the roast his grandmother used to make on Sundays. I even baked it in my enameled roaster, just like his Grandma did. It was a nostalgic meal for both of us.
Some of my Grandmas’ Recipes:
- Banana Cream Jelly Roll
- Rhubarb Pie
- Hamburger Soup
- Baked Beans
- Chocolate Meringue Pie
- Smoked Polish Sausage & Sauerkraut
When I saw the name I laughed to myself, even though I read “Forgotten Roast” I heard Tony Soprano’s voice in my head, you remember The Sopranos, right? — “Fuggedaboutit” and that is exactly what you do. A couple of common pantry ingredients, and pop it in your oven for 5-6 hours. If you want gravy for your potatoes, it makes a quick and easy one from the drippings. Perfect Sunday Supper Meal.
Shred the meat or slice it — that’s your preference. You are going to love how fall apart, fork tender it is!
Ingredients in Fuggedaboutit Roast:
- 3 pound beef chuck roast
- onion soup mix
- cream of mushroom soup
- fresh or canned mushrooms (optional)
Lay roast on a large piece of heavy duty foil, rub a packet of onion soup mix into it.
Cover with a can of cream of mushroom soup.
This step is optional – I added one can of sliced mushrooms. (we LOVE mushrooms!)
Wrap and seal up the foil, place in a roaster. Bake it low and slow for 5-6 hours.
We baked ours for 5 hours and it was perfect. I used a chuck roast, so it wasn’t super thick.
5-6 hours later, unwrap and enjoy the most tender roast you have ever eaten!
I drained the fat from the drippings, heated them on the stove, added a little kitchen bouquet and another can of mushroom soup and had a fantastic gravy.
Hey … You think there’s a better roast out there? “Fuggedaboutit!”
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"Fuggedaboutit Roast" {the forgotten roast}
Ingredients
- 1 3 pound beef chuck roast
- 1 packet Onion soup mix
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup
- 1 can sliced mushrooms drained (optional) Sliced fresh mushrooms work well, too!
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
- Place roast on a large piece of heavy duty foil. Rub onion soup into roast, top with can of cream of mushroom soup, top with can of mushrooms (optional.)
- Cover and tightly seal foil around roast. Place in roaster pan, cover and bake for 5-6 hours.
- Remove roast from foil. Use droppings to prepare gravy if desired.
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I love a recipe that doesn’t need too many ingredients, like this one. Sounds super comforting too.
Love grandmas recipes! Aren’t they always the best? I am pretty sure my kids would love this for a weeknight win. And it looks easy enough for me to make in a hurry.
After trying this roast, I’ll never make it another way again! So good!
So happy you liked it, Jessica!
What a fun story about this roast…can’t wait to try it.
What I wouldn’t give to have some roast right now. Nothing more comforting than a homemade roast.
Hi,
I love pot roast so I’m attracted to your recipe. Can this be done in a crock pot as I really don’t like cooking in foil.. thanks for any ideas.
Claudia — I haven’t tried it myself. I don’t see why you couldn’t use the same ingredients and make it in the crock pot though!
Hello, I had to laugh, I’m up at my cabin and forgot my cookbook at home. I have this very same cookbook! I don’t know that I’ve ever met anyone that has it. It was also given to be my by my grandma. So when I looked up the recipe and saw the type writer print I started laughing. I love the 7-Up banana bread recipe in there as well. Thanks for putting this in there you saved me! It really is the best recipe for a roast dinner!
Hello, I had to laugh, I’m up at my cabin and forgot my cookbook at home. I have this very same cookbook! I don’t know that I’ve ever met anyone that has it. It was also given to me by my grandma. So when I looked up the recipe and saw the type writer print I started laughing. I love the 7-Up banana bread recipe in there as well. Thanks for putting this in there you saved me! It really is the best recipe for a roast dinner!
I peel white potatoes and sweet potatoes and carrots and onions and cut them in large chunks and lay them around the roast and then seal the entire pan it works great.
That is fantastic!! I can’t believe you have the same one!! I will have to give that 7up banana bread a try too!!
Try a can of French Onion soup and a can of Golden Mushroom soup then can of drained sliced mushrooms. Cook in crockpot. Same but different. Makes its own gravy Great ?
I have made similar recipes as this, but love the low temperature in this recipe. I am curious if anyone sears the roast first? I usually sear any roast before cooking but does it really improve the flavor? If I do sear it should I cook it for less time? Thanks and love the name of this recipe!
Hi, Cheryl! Thanks — the name is really fun, isn’t it? I have never seared the roast when I made it. (that goes for the pork and the beef recipes) and the flavor is always fantastic. Low and slow is the way to go!
My mother had this exact recipe and never seared the roast either.
I cannot thank you enough for posting this. I wish I found this sometime ago!
This is EXACTLY how my mother ALWAYS made her roasts. When I was grown she told me the ingredients, but never the roasting instructions. She just said wrap it in foil and roast it. Since she never would let me in the kitchen, I had to learn to cook on my own. I tried making it once, but it burnt, so I turned to other recipes. Sadly, I waited too long to insist on her roasting instructions. She developed dementia at about 65 and passed away 7 years later from it. She could never remember the recipe once dementia set in.
For this reason I am utterly grateful to you for your instructions. Now I have the final missing piece. I can vouch for this recipe 100%! I ate my mother’s roast for over 40 years and it never turned out bad. Now my children, though adults, will finally get to eat Granny’s roast again. 🙂
Oh Cindy!! These types of comments my what I do SO WORTH IT! This just made my whole weekend! Thank you for taking the time to leave your comment. I am so glad that you found it too!