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Brunswick Stew

Family Size Recipe

2 1/2 to 3 pounds chicken

2 pieces celery

1 small onion

2 quarts tomatoes, fresh or canned

1 cup chopped onion

3 medium white potatoes, peeled but still whole

1 quart green butter beans (drain if canned)

1 quart whole kernel corn (drain if canned)

5 tablespoons of sugar

salt to taste

Red and Black pepper to taste

Place chicken, celery and onion in a large kettle. Add about a quart of water. Simmer until meat is tender or begins to loosen from bones. Lift chicken from broth. Cool the broth and discard the celery. Remove meat from bones and cut into small pieces.

Add tomatoes, chopped onions and whole potatoes to broth. Continue cooking over medium heat. Remove potatoes when tender, mash and return to stew. (Some cooks omit this step and dice the potatoes before adding them to the stew. It has been noted, however, that the stew freezes better when the potatoes have been mashed; otherwise, they’re soggy.)

Add cut-up chicken, butter beans, corn and sugar. Add salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil while stirring. Cover, lower heat and simmer slowly, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking, for 3 to 5 hours, or until tomatoes have cooked to pieces.

Makes about six quarts.

Brunswick Stew

Virginia S. Woodruff

1930

First catch your chicken,

clean and cut them.

And in an iron pot you put them;

And water nearly to the top

And in it salt and pepper drop;

Boil Slowly. Your tomatoes peel;

Put in a shin or so of veal;

And for the flavor bear in mind,

A chunk of middling with the rind.

Next some onions you throw in,

The young and tender skin.

And butter beans do not forget;

And what is more important yet;

The corn, but do not be too fast,

For you must cut and add it last;

For better than the flour you’ll find it’ll do

To give some thickness to the stew,

Some lemon peel cut very thin

May now be added and stirred in,

And ere it is taken from the fire

Give it a dash of Worcestershire,

And soon you will hear its praises ring,

This is a dish fit for a king.