Irish Stew

Ingredients

• One pound neck of mutton
• two pounds potatoes
• two large onions
• one large tea-spoonful salt
• one salt-spoonful pepper
• one half pint boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Cut the mutton into small pieces, wash, and place in a stew-pan with salt and pepper.

2. 2

   Add cold water and skim when boiling.

3. 3

   Soak and slice the onions, adding them to the pan.

4. 4

   Cook slowly for one hour and fifteen minutes.

5. 5

   Boil the potatoes separately, then place them over the mutton and cook for another half hour.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 179. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Irish Stew. — One pound neck of mutton, two pounds potatoes, two large onions, one large tea-spoonful salt, one salt-spoonful pepper, one half pint boiling water

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