Brown Stew

Ingredients

• any left-over pieces of uncooked tough meat
• a couple of tablespoonfuls of suet
• a tablespoonful of flour
• one pint of water or stock
• a teaspoonful of salt
• a bay leaf
• slice of onion
• a teaspoonful of browning or kitchen bouquet
• a pint of flour
• a teaspoonful of baking powder
• sufficient milk to just moisten

Method

1. 1

   Cut meat into cubes, dust with flour, brown in suet.

2. 2

   Add flour, water/stock, salt, bay leaf, onion, and browning.

3. 3

   Simmer until tender.

4. 4

   For dumplings, mix flour, salt, baking powder, and milk, drop over stew, cover, and cook for 10 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Left overs (1898) by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer, page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Brown Stew Cut any left-over pieces of uncooked tough meat into cubes of one inch. Put a couple of tablespoonfuls of suet into a saucepan ; when rendered out, remove the cracklings. Dust the bits of meat with a tablespoonful of flour, throw them into the hot suet, and shake until brown. Draw the meat to one side, and add to the fat in the pan a second tablespoonful of flour ; mix, add one pint of water or stock, stir until boiling, add a teaspoonful of salt, a bay leaf, slice of onion, a tea- BEEF—UNCOOKED 15 spoonful of browning or kitchen bouquet; cover and simmer gently until the meat is tender, about an hour and a half. The proportions given here are for one pound of beef. This may be served plain, or in a border of rice, or with dumplings. If dumplings, put a pint of flour into a bowl, add a teaspoonful of salt and one of bak- ing powder ; mix thoroughly and add sufficient milk to just moisten ; drop by spoonfuls over the top of the stew, cover the saucepan and cook for ten minutes. Do not lift the cover during the ten minutes or the dumplings will fall. Beef Timbale Chop fine any left-over tough bits of lean beef. Cook together for a moment a gill of strained tomatoes and one cup of bread crumbs ; add to the meat, rub to a smooth paste, season with a quarter of a teaspoonful of celery seed, a half tea- spoonful of salt and a dash of pepper ; mix, and then stir in carefully the well- beaten whites of two eggs ; fill into cus- tard cups, stand in a pan of boiling water, and cook in a moderate oven twenty min- utes. Serve with tomato sauce. This recipe is for one pound of beef. x6 LEFT OVERS BEEF— COOKED Ras^out Cut pieces of cold boiled or roasted beef into cubes of one inch ; to each quart of this allow two tablespoonfuls of butter, two of flour and a pint of stock. Rub the butter and flour together, add the stock, stir until boiling ; add a table- spoonful of onion juice, a teaspoonful of browning or kitchen bouquet

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