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Sunday Pot Roast

A four-ingredient Sunday pot roast with onion soup mix, cream of mushroom soup and potatoes, preserved from the 2006 Jersey County community cookbook 75 Years of Caring and Sharing.
Tender Sunday pot roast with quartered potatoes and onion-mushroom gravy on a serving platter

FROM THE ARCHIVE

75 Years of Caring and Sharing

Jersey County, Illinois ·
2006
Recipe contributed by Vera Neal, Fieldon

Vera Neal’s Sunday Pot Roast is built from just four ingredients: a 4- to 6-pound chuck roast, dry onion soup mix, cream of mushroom soup and quartered potatoes. The roast and potatoes are sealed tightly inside heavy-duty foil and baked for four hours.

It is a distinctly old-school oven-roast method—the foil packet traps the soup mixture around the meat and potatoes, creating a self-contained Sunday supper with almost no active cooking once it goes into the oven.

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Sunday Pot Roast

Preserved from 75 Years of Caring and Sharing, printed page 104.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
Keyword: community cookbook recipe, vintage main dish
Servings: 8 to 10 servings

Ingredients

  • 4 to 6 lb. chuck roast
  • 1 pkg. dry onion soup mix
  • 1 can cream of mushroom soup
  • 4 to 6 medium potatoes peeled and quartered

Instructions

  • Place roast on large sheet of heavy-duty foil.
  • Mix soups and cover roast with soup mixture.
  • Add potatoes and bring foil up and over roast. Roll and secure edges tightly, about 6 inches above roast.
  • Bake at 350°F for 4 hours.

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