Meaning of brown stew | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A stew in which the meat is browned before being added
   countable, dated, uncountable
2. A stew cooked or served with a brown-coloured sauce
   Caribbean, Jamaica, countable, uncountable

Examples

“For a brown stew, the meat and sometimes the vegetables are browned in hot fat before being simmered”

“For the duffs are now brown, and the stew is brown stew, They're all fancy names for the scoff.”

“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.]”

“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.”

“Brown stew and Irish stew were among the dishes that appeared each week on the nursery menu.”

“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.”

“Brown Stew is simply a meat/fish dish in gravy.”

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