Recipe of the Week: One Meal Stew

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This week’s recipe is for One Meal Stew — a beef stew recipe. It is a recipe excerpted from the scarce book Nine Hundred Successful Recipes, by Lulu Thompson Silvernail. This book, from my own book collection, was published in 1923. A recent change in U.S. copyright law now puts most pre-1925 books in the public domain.

Lulu Thompson Silvernail’s emphasis in this book was recipes that included hard red winter wheat flour. This entire recipe book will be just part of the more than 4,000 pages of bonus content that is being added to the SurvivalBlog archive waterproof USB stick that will be orderable, later this month.

Ingredients
    • 1-1/2 lbs. boneless lean beef
    • 3 tablespoons bacon grease [For modern diets, other oils could be substituted.]
    • 1 onion, slze of a door nob, or more
    • 4 medium sliced carrots
    • 1 large green pepper
    • 1 pint of tomatoes
    • 6 large sized potatoes
    • 1/4 cup barley
    • 2 tablespoons rlce
    • 3/4 tablespoon salt [For modern diets, probably less!]
    • Dash of cayenne pepper
Directions
  1. Cut meat in pieces the size of a walnut.
  2. Place meat and bacon grease in skillet for meat to simmer and brown, keeping skillet uncovered.
  3. When brown, remove the mixture from skillet and place in stew kettle with the barley, carrots and rice.
  4. Pour in enough water to have mixture well-covered.
  5. Set kettle back on stove and simmer slowly for one hour, keeping kettle covered at this time.
  6. At the end of hour, cut the onion in small pieces, chop the green pepper, mash the tomatoes and cut potatoes in medium sized pieces, and add all to the meat mixture.
  7. Return the kettle to fire and cook until vegetables are tender, if necessary adding additional water as needed.
SERVING

Serve hot.

Note: When using fireless cooker prepare meat in the same manner as given above. Place all ingredients together and let cook in fireless cooker for 3 hours. Add only enough water to mixture as it goes to eooker to keep vegetables partially covered..

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