Stewed Beef

Ingredients

• 1 lb. beef (shin or any cheap part may be used)
• 1 carrot
• 1 turnip (small)
• ½ pt. water
• a little vinegar
• 1 dessertspoonful of flour
• salt and pepper
• onion

Method

1. 1

   Cut beef into neat pieces.

2. 2

   If very tough, dip each in vinegar to soften the fibres.

3. 3

   Prepare and cut vegetables into dice, place in stewpan with the meat and water.

4. 4

   Simmer gently till tender (two to three hours).

5. 5

   Have flour blended with half gill of water.

6. 6

   Add and stir till it boils and cooks the flour.

7. 7

   Season and pile on hot ashet.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Berridge House recipe book (1910), page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 carrot, 1 small turnip, 1 onion, 1 dessertspoonful of flour, salt and pepper, celery, cold water. Crust \ lb. flour, i lb. suet, •| teaspoonful of water, baking powder, Method. — Cut meat in pieces, dip in seasoned flour. Scrape and cut carrot into dice. Peel turnip and onion and cut also into neat pieces. Place meat and vegetables into a moderate-sized stewpan. Add just enough water to cover, and bring to the boil. Make suet crust and roll out just the size of the lid. Place on top of meat. Simmer gently one and a-half to two hours. Loosen crust from sides of pan now and then. To serve : Cut crust across into four, and remove on to a hot plate with fish slice. If sufficiently seasoned, pile meat, &c., on an ashet, place crust on top. 2 large onions, Method. — Wash the dressed tripe. Blanch, scrape, and return to pan cut in neat pieces. Add milk, and simmer one hour (seasonings also) . Have Stewed Tripe 1 lb. tripe, 1 oz. flour, salt and pepper, 1 pt. skim milk, croutons of toast, parsley. 24 COOKER Y RECIPES onions boiled ; chop them finely. Blend flour with a little cold milk, add it, and stir till boiling ; then add the onions. Mix well, and if sufficiently seasoned pile on a hot dish and garnish with croutons of toast and parsley. Stewed Beef i lb. beef (shin or any cheap part may be used), i carrot, i turnip (small), \ pt. water, a little vinegar, i dessertspoonful of flour, salt and pepper, onion

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