FROM THE MAILBAG

New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 379, 27 September 1946, Page 27

FROM THE MAILBAG

Real Irish Stew Dear Aunt Daisy, For a long time now I have been thinking what I could do to make myself a bona-fide member of the Daisy Chain. I have decided to send you a really "genuine from Ireland" recipe for the old favourite Irish Stew. So often I have been disappointed when I ordered what | was called Irish Stew on the menus of restaurants-and it was usually just a> rather sloppy kind of stew with a lot. of meat and carrot, etc. No one ever. saw a stew like that called "Irish Stew" | in the "ould country." So I have included the recipe, and perhaps The Listener, readers may care to make one on the colder days. Your interested Listener and Reader, Mrs. R., Wellington. And here is the Real Irish Stew Recipe. For the ingredients you need about halt a pound of the cheaper mutton, I/b. | of potatoes, which is equal to two or} three medium sized ones; 1 onion; and | half a pint of water, with pepper and salt to taste, Wash and peel the potatoes; cut half the quantity into slices, and the remainder into halves. Place the sliced potatoes over the bottom of the saucepan; and then put in the meat and the halved potatoes. If larger quantities are required, do this alternately till the saucepan is nearly full. Then add the onion, water, and pepper and salt, After it has come to the boil, simmer it over an asbestos mat for two hours, Irish stew is not "runny" like ordinary stews -on the contrary, it is rather solid.