Grandma Tubby’s Beef Stew

(from Mrs_Sully’s recipe box)

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Coat stewing beef in seasoned flour (using a plastic bag and shaking it all up).

  2. Fry stewing beef in dripping or lard until brown. Remove and set aside.

  3. Fry up some vegetables and return the meat to the pan.

  4. Add 1 pint of stock made from a stock cube, Marmite/Bovril, water, light ale, etc. OR CONSOMME

  5. Add a bay leaf and some herbs.

  6. Cook at 150 for at least 3 hours.

  7. Steam some dumplings for 20 mins at the end.

  8. VARIATIONS

  9. Lamb with leeks, pearl barley, different herbs, spring veg, or sliced potatoes over the top or herb dumplings

  10. Chicken (doesn’t need as long to cook) with tomato, chickpeas, beans etc.

  11. Add pulses, beans, different veg depending on meat or season.

  12. Red wine good alternative to beer with shallots and mushrooms.

  13. Beef variation – put sliced baguette spread with mustard on top for the last 10 mins and turn heat up. Or mustard dumplings or Yorkshire puddings on top.

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