Stewed Shin of Beef (with Dumplings)
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Stewed Shin of Beef (with Dumplings)

Ingredients

  • 1 pound beef shin
  • 2 onions
  • 2 carrots
  • 2 turnips
  • 2 tablespoon flour
  • 2 ounce dripping, or suet
  • pepper, to taste
  • salt, to taste
  • 1/2 pound flour
  • 2 ounce dripping
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Directions

  1. Prepare the carrots and turnips and boil them quickly 20 minutes in 1 quart of water.
  2. Cut the meat into pieces, fry a light brown in the dripping, then place the pieces in a saucepan.
  3. Peel and slice the onions, fry them in the same dripping, then stir in carefully 2 tablespoonfuls of flour to brown.
  4. Add the carrots and turnips to the meat, pour the water in which they were boiled into the frying pan to brown; then add it with the onions, pepper and salt to the meat, etc , and stew slowly 1 1/2 hour.
  5. Shred the fat fine and rub it into the flour with the baking-powder and salt.
  6. Mix with lukewarm water to a stiff paste.
  7. Cut into eight pieces, and roll lightly into dumplings on a floured board.
  8. Throw them into a saucepan of boiling water, and boil till they rise to the surface (20 minutes).
  9. Add them to the stew 10 minutes before serving.

Other Information

Author: May Henry, Edith B Cohen

Source: The Economical Jewish Cook (1897-01-01)

Category: Meat

Ingredients: beef shin, onion, carrot, turnip, flour, dripping, pepper, salt, baking powder

Equipment: measuring cups, measuring spoons, stove, frying pan

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