When I was like thirteen I remember a family gathering where my grandpa took a bunch of stew ingredients (carrots, beef, onions, etc) and put them in these net mesh bags, and boiled them in this gigantic pot, and boiled them for quite a while. Once everything was cooked, the ingredients were separated and served individually, not as part of a stew or soup. I remember this being referred to as “hobo stew” but when I look up hobo stew I don’t find anything about the mesh bag part of the recipe. Is this a thing with a name?