brown stew

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brown stew (countable and uncountable, plural brown stews)

(cooking, dated) A stew in which the meat is browned before being added
- 1916, Mary Emma Williams, Katharine Rolston Fisher, Elements of the theory and practice of cookery; a textbook of domestic science for use in schools‎^[1], New York & London: Macmillan, page 172:
  For a brown stew, the meat and sometimes the vegetables are browned in hot fat before being simmered
- 1940s, "Me Boys, Have You Any Complaints?"; printed in Jerry Silverman Songs of the British Isles (2012: Mel Bay Publications). →ISBN p. 44:
  For the duffs are now brown, and the stew is brown stew,
  
  They're all fancy names for the scoff.
- 1959 October 21, Kevin Boland, "Written Answers. - Army Scale of Rations." Dáil Éireann debates Vol. 177 No.1 p.69 cc.54–56:
  The menu in respect of each day of the week ended 11th September, 1959, for a Dublin Barracks was as follows:— ... [Date] 9-9-59 ... [Dinner] Brown Stew [etc.]
- 2012 October 11, “Famous faces feature in cathedral’s new cookbook”, in Kilkenny People‎^[2]:
  There’s everything from Eva Holmes’ piquant salad dressing or Edward Hayden’s lemon and thyme stuffing, to Mrs Cusack’s brown stew or Antonia Bottoni’s Cape Malay chicken curry.
- 2014, Sam Miller, A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes‎^[3], Random House, →ISBN, page 33:
  Brown stew and Irish stew were among the dishes that appeared each week on the nursery menu.
(cooking, Caribbean, Jamaica) A stew cooked or served with a brown-coloured sauce
- 2008, B. W. Higman, Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, University of the West Indies Press, →ISBN, page 324:
  Increasingly preferred was the method known as "brown stew". Sullivan had recommended adding a brown gravy to broiled kingfish and stewing junefish in a brown sauce, thickened with flour.
- 2013, David Daley, Gwendolyn Daley, “No. 6: Brown Stew Chicken”, in Caribbean Cookery Secrets: How to Cook 100 of the Most Popular West Indian, Cajun and Creole Dishes, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
  Brown Stew is simply a meat/fish dish in gravy.

Antonyms edit

(antonym(s) of "stew in which the meat is browned before being added"): white stew