Slow Cooking
Drop a whole smoked ham shank in the slow cooker with 4 other ingredients and get a supper so tender your mother-in-law will swear you spent hours
My great-aunt fed all 8 of us on under $9 with this hearty pot. It only takes 5 ingredients and the leftovers were gone by breakfast.
Found this handwritten index card in Aunt Mabel's wooden recipe box from 1968. She served it every harvest season and my daddy still talks about how good it was.