Irish Stew

Ingredients

• 8 or 9 pieces cut from the best part of a neck of mutton
• 2 onions
• 1 teacup yam or sweet potatoes cut in pieces one inch square
• 1 dessertspoon flour
• a pinch of pepper
• $ teaspoon salt
• A teacup carrots and turnips cut in pieces one inch square and a bunch of parsley if available

Method

1. 1

   Spread the flour on the cook’s board and turn in the pieces of mutton sprinkled with salt and pepper.

2. 2

   Put the pieces in a saucepan with enough cold water to cover them.

3. 3

   Bring to boil, remove scum, add onions (and carrots, turnips, parsley).

4. 4

   Cover and simmer gently for an hour.

5. 5

   Add yam or sweet potatoes and simmer for another 45 minutes.

6. 6

   Keep covered.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical West African cookery (1910) by S. Leith-Ross, page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Irish Stew. (I). 8 or 9 pieces cut from the best part of a neck of mutton. 2 onions. 1 teacup yam or sweet pota- toes cut in pieces one inch square. 1 dessertspoon flour. 2 berkono or a pinch of pepper. $ teaspoon salt. (A teacup carrots and turnips cut in pieces one inch square and a bunch of parsley if available

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