Pepper Pot Soup is great, if you can get over the fact that it’s meat is beef tripe.
She raised her kids in the depression era. She was not a poor woman, but culture from that period taught them to appreciate everything. Snack when the kids got home from school was fresh baked bread with lard and sugar on it. Lard went into everything if I remember correctly. None of her children had heart or cholesterol problems either.