Irish Stews

Irish Stews posts cover the slow-cooked one-pot dish that became the most familiar Irish recipe abroad. Articles look at the traditional version with mutton or hogget, potatoes, onions and parsley with no thickener and no carrots according to purists, the modern lamb-and-Guinness variation that started as a pub dish, the difference between a Northern Irish and a Southern Irish version, the question of whether to use stewing lamb or cheaper cuts, and how to layer the pot to keep the potatoes from collapsing. There are also notes on serving with brown soda bread.