Kidney Stew

Ingredients

• Two beef kidneys cut in small pieces
• Add 2 onions, chopped fine
• A few minutes before serving add 1 glass sherry
• Thicken with flour
• Salt
• pepper
• serve on hot toast

Method

1. 1

   Pour cold water over kidneys and boil, pouring off water three times.

2. 2

   Let simmer slowly for two hours.

3. 3

   Add chopped onions and cook for one hour.

4. 4

   Before serving, add sherry and thicken with flour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Portland Woman's Exchange Cook Book (1913) by Portland Woman's Exchange (Or.), page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Kidney Stew. Two beef kidneys cut in small pieces. Pour cold water over and as it boils pour off and repeat. The third time let it simmer slowly for two hours. Add 2 onions, chopped fine, and cook 1 hour. A few minutes before serving add 1 glass sherry. Thicken with flour and serve on hot toast. This may be varied by adding curry. Both are excellent. Mrs. H. E. Blossom. Chicken Asparagus. Cut a chicken into quarters and put into a saucepan with a little butter to fry. When it begins to steam dust over with a little flour and fry to a pale brown, now sprinkling over a teaspoon of chopped parsley and a little salt. Take a couple bunches of asparagus, break off the tender parts, wash them well in salted water, boil slightly in more salt water, and drain. Put a lump of butter and 1 tablespoon of cream into a saucepan over a slow fire, place half the asparagus on top, dust with pep- per, and then arrange the pieces of chicken over it; cover with the remainder of the asparagus and put a few pieces of butter on top. Pour over all 1 breakfast cup of cream and stew gently till done. Turn the whole out into a dish, gar- nish with croutons of fried bread and serve. La Grange, Ills. Oazuela (South American Dish). Cut large chicken in pieces, and fry in hot lard until light brown. Then put the chicken in a saucepan with 1 onion, 4 or 5 potatoes cut in halves, 1 cup of corn, 2 tablespoons rice. 88 PORTLAND WOMAN'S EXCHANGE COOK BOOK 2 or 3 small pieces of pumpkin, salt, .pepper

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