Elk Stew Recipe
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Ingredients: 2 pounds of Elk Roast chunks
1/2 cup of flour seasoned with Salt and Pepper
5 carrots cut into 1 inch chunks
5 stalks of celery (if you have)
1 medium onion, diced
shortening or oil
canned green beans
canned green peas
small cabbage (optional), cut into about 3 inch pieces
4 medium potatoes peeled and cut into 1 inches pieces
1 large turnips (optional), peeled into chunks and cut into 1 inch pieces
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Directions:Mama's favorite cooking pan was her pressure cooker. Put enough oil or shortening in the pan to just cover the bottom. Put the flour on a plate and season with salt and pepper, mix good. Add the roast chunks, one a time and coat the meat with the flour mixture. Place the meat in the pan, when the oil gets hot. Brown one side then turn and brown each piece on both sides. Don't put more than a layer of meat in a time in order to brown all the meat then take the meat out and do another layer of meat, add more oil if needed. When all the meat is browned, scrape the flour and the oil so it is loose from the bottom, add the onions, brown with the scrapings, put all of the meat back in the pan add the vegetables you have cut into pieces of about 1 inch. Mama didn't often have celery to add. Add enough water to cover the meat and vegetables, don't fill over 2/3 full, put the lid on and the jiggler and turn up the heat until the top starts jiggling then turn down heat and let the jiggler, jiggle for 30 minutes. Turn the heat off and let the pan cool off. After it cools, take the jiggler off, the lid off, season with more salt and pepper, if needed, add the green beans and peas, heat it back up so the vegetables that were cooked warm up. You can serve from the pan or place in a bowl. Fix a garden salad then serve with green onions, homemade bread, butter and homemade jelly. Fix ice tea, milk or water to drink. You've made a meal fit for a king!! Finish off with an oatmeal cake or cookies or? |
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Notes: Mama fixed this for Rex and me every time we came back home. This was what I asked for every time she was asked what I'd like to eat. Mama loved fixing this, if she could bring me home with this, she'd have done it more often, she made me feel like this, special and welcomed home!! Her favorite pan was the pressure cooker, she used a large canner pressure cooker when she canned her green beans, green peas, or any other vegetable she wanted to can. It was a 21 quart cooker. It held 7 quart jars or 14 pints. She had to watch it and make sure it didn't get too much pressure. I have this canner - I need to take it and have it checked to make sure it's still safe to use. Mama used her 6 quart pan for any meal that required the items inside to be tender. I don't know as cooking was her favorite thing to do, but her family was her favorite people and feeding us was a priority and just doing it to just fill tummies was not enough, it needed to taste good and she succeeded. Doing dishes after the meals was our job, setting the table was our job, but cooking was her domain. She helped us learn, or she answered our questions, but mostly we learned by watching her. One year Daddy decided to try planting a stew garden patch to see if the vegetables would help each other grow. That patch grew at the same speed as the rest, but they didn't grow pretty, like the rest of the garden, because the tops of the vegetables are what is pretty, but this patch had tops of carrots, and onions, turnip tops, cabbage growing, potato tops. It didn't look like a stew patch. He didn't try that again. He loved his winter onions that just kind of grew wild, they were like a green onion - he had these at every meal except breakfast.
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