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Stew

Ingredients

  • 3 pounds stew meat (or sirloin)
  • 3 large carrots
  • 1 large onion, chopped into sections
  • 1 can of leseur peas
  • 1 large can diced tomatoes
  • 1 10.5 oz. can beef consomme
  • 1/2 cup cooking wine (optional)
  • 4 tbsp minute tapioca
  • 5 tbsp brown sugar
  • salt and pepper
  • 3 or 4 bay leaves
  • 3 large potatoes

Directions

Preheat oven to 250 degrees

 

Brown meat in cast iron skillet. Combine rest of the ingredients into skillet.

 

Bake in covered dish up to 6 or 7 hours. If potatoes are desired, add two hours before serving.

History

Mrs. Mulkey gave Mitzi this recipe. Mrs. Mulkey was Mitzi's mentor at her second post-college job, Mulkey's Carriage House in Columbia, Mo. They were sharing recipes at the time. Mrs. Mulkey was very much a lady, and stayed in contact with Mitzi until the mid-90s.