Shooting Stew with Parsley Dumplings

Name: Shooting Stew with Parsley Dumplings
Yield: Serves 8–12
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 450 g/ 1 lb self-raising flour; 30 g/ 1 oz flat-leaved parsley leaves; 2 eggs; 170 g/ 6 oz butter, diced; salt and pepper; 2 bay leaves; 4 tbsp Worcestershire sauce; 1 bottle of red wine; about 2 litres/ 3½ pints chicken stock; 450 g/ 1 lb piece of smoked fat bacon, cut into lardons; 2.7 kg/ 6 lb shin of beef, cut into 225 g/ 8 oz portions; flour, for dusting; 1.35 kg/ 3 lb onions, sliced; 4 celery stalks, cut across into thin slices; 450 g/ 1 lb carrots, sliced lengthwise; 2 tbsp flour; 4 garlic cloves, chopped; 4 tbsp sunflower oil; 2 oven-ready pheasants

Preparation info

Serves
8–12

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1998

About

A shooting stew is something you would serve a shooting party for lunch – if you move in country circles where large numbers of people need to be fed after a long morning spent blasting birds out of the sky, an activity which will leave them cold, tired and famished. It is safe to assume that those so preoccupied enjoy eating as well as killing their prey, so your typical shooters’ stew should contain game birds as well as beef.

Other hungry people will enjoy this combination after

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