This episode wwas one for the books.  So many many books.  
And the reading and researching of all those recipes showed me that - once again - some of the assumptions I went in with were way off!

Chicken and dumplins... dumplin - are not typical early 19th century fare.  But plenty of other stew type things are.  And there are lessons in the recipes for all us modern cooks - regardless of how we cook our stew.

The biggest big deal - brown your meat!  The other thing - freshen up your seasoning right before serving.  Do it!

But what if it's a vegetable... a meatless stew?  Well, I fear to tell you, due to the spice fearing vegetarian crusaders of the 19th century (the Grahamites and their ilk) this was a terrible time to go hunting for good American vegetable stew.  It was there, but not in any printed cookbook.  America's date with generally good vegetable cookery got badly shoved into the corner.

Sigh.

But get on board with why our stew got so bad - and how you can make yours great!

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