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An Irish Stew

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. Potatoes
  2. Cut
  3. Chops
  4. Onions
  5. Loin
  6. a quart of water

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. 128.
  2. — Cut rather thick chops from the loin ;
  3. when the square ends of the bones are cut off, half a dozen will probably weigh a couple of pounds ;
  4. lay them in an iron pot, and put double the quantity of sliced potatoes, placed in layers, with the chops, and half a dozen small onions, with about a quart of water ;
  5. cover the pan closely, and let them stew on a moderate fire for 2 hours, or until the potatoes have become nearly a mash, and absorbed all the water and gravy of the meat ;
  6. the chops will then be found very tender, and the potatoes rich with the fat.
  7. The stew should be eaten hot, but without any kind of sauce.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
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Credit

From Modern domestic cookery (1851), printed page 148, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21530932

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.