What is (was?) "Aberdeen Hotpotch"

Factual Questions
1

I’m reading a book about an exploration expedition to Tasmania. For a long stretch the party seems to exist on little other than cans of ‘Aberdeen hotpotch.’

Googling so far has only turned up that hotpotch, also ‘hot potch’ and ‘hot-potch’ means something like “mish mash” or conglomeration of miscellaneous ingredients.

Fine, but WHAT ingredients? Meat – what kinds? Vegetables – which? And what did it look like? A ground together smoosh like current day canned roast beef hash? Or was it in chunks, like Dinty Moor beef stew?

I figure that if the stuff was sold commercially, surely there was a defined recipe for at least their version, but so far I’ve not come up with a desciption.
(Yes, my mind gets snagged by insignificant details and it niggles at me.)

2

I could be wrong but it might be Hotpot. Lamb, potatoes and Onions.

3

It;s also know as Scottish hot pot, hotpotch, … Basically what tomcar said. In the carribean they have a version where they never let the pot go off heat. They just add new stuff every day and some families claim to have batches that are a hundred years old.

4

Ah, thank you. So a sort of lamb hash, then. Makes sense, I guess.

I’ve heard of soup pots that were kept going indefinitely the same way, though personally I’ll skip the centuries old stew!

And as a later thought, I’ll bet “hodge podge” is related to this phrase, too.

5

Absolutely.