Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with a “carefully tested receipt” for Irish Stew from 1864
Plate 2 from Modern Cookery for Private Families
Receipt for Baked Irish StewFill a brown upright Nottingham jar with alternate layers of mutton (or beef), sliced potatoes, and mild onions; and put in water and seasoning as above; cover the top closely with whole potatoes (pared), and send the stew to a moderate oven. The potatoes on the top should be well cooked and browned before the stew is served. We have not considered it necessary to try this receipt, which was given to us by some friends who keep an excellent table, and who recommended it much. It is, of course, suited only to a quite plain family dinner. The onions can be omitted when their flavour is not liked.Recipe from Modern Cookery for Private Families reduced to a system of easy practice, in a series of carefully tested receipts, in which the principles of Baron Liebig and other eminent writers have been as much as possible applied and explainedby Eliza Acton, London, 1864, p. 243. Learn more in HOLLIS: http://tinyurl.com/6ux32lkFull text of this title is available at http://tinyurl.com/6pxdla7