The Best Beef Stew Recipe
Beef Stew has always been one of my all time favorite winter comfort food. Rich and creamy, the broth has just the right amount of thickness to completely cover the vegetables and meat. The potato and carrot add just the right amount of flavor and texture to keep me coming back for more. Simply the best!
History
Stews have been made since ancient times. The world's oldest known evidence of stew was found in Japan, dating to the Jลmon period.[2][3] Herodotus says that the Scythians (8th to 4th centuries BC) "put the flesh into an animal's paunch, mix water with it, and boil it like that over the bone fire. The bones burn very well, and the paunch easily contains all the meat once it has been stripped off. In this way an ox, or any other sacrificial beast, is ingeniously made to boil itself."
Amazonian tribes used the shells of turtles as vessels, boiling the entrails of the turtle and various other ingredients in them. Other cultures[who?] used the shells of large mollusks (clams etc.) to boil foods in.[citation needed] There is archaeological evidence[where?] of these practices going back 8,000 years or more.[citation needed]Irish stew
There are recipes for lamb stews and fish stews in the Roman cookery book Apicius, believed to date from the 4th century AD. Le Viandier, one of the oldest cookbooks in French, written in the early 14th century by the French chef known as Taillevent, has ragouts or stews of various types in it.[4]
The first written reference to 'Irish stew' is in Byron's "The Devil's Drive" (1814): "The Devil ... dined on ... a rebel or so in an Irish stew."[5]
As part of the Eintopfsonntag campaign, from 1933 the Nazi party made a midday Sunday eintopf (stew) obligatory on some days:[6] in particular as part of the Winterhilfe, the first Sunday of the month from October until March was declared Eintopfsonntag.
I hope you enjoy this recipe as it is a true American classic!
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