Irish Stew Recipe: The Real Lamb-and-Potato Stew (and the Great Carrot Argument)
A traditional Irish stew recipe in metric and US measures: lamb neck or mutton layered with potatoes and onions and simmered until the potatoes thicken the broth, with hob, oven, slow cooker and Instant Pot timings. Then lamb vs hogget vs mutton, the great carrot argument (the purists, Myrtle and Darina Allen, an 1800 London recipe and a Leitrim feast-day stew), why there’s no Guinness in the real thing, and the history, from a countess’s handwritten recipe book and Eliza Melroe’s 1798 recipe through Eliza Acton and Mrs Beeton to the dead water-rat in Three Men in a Boat.