Winter Survival Food: Beef Stew

Winter survival food is all about getting through on what you are able to grow and harvest yourself. We have talked plenty about root vegetables, but what about meat? Take a look at this beef stew recipe.

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[VBunplugged]

And just like that, Townsend's channel inspired everyone to make beef stew for dinner tonight

[Virgil-]

I don't think the people writing these recipes ever imagined 200 years later, people would still be reading their recipes and making them for millions of people to see. It really is wonderful

[hugodesrosiers-plaisance]

"Ragoût" is really just the french word for stew. "Daube" is also a type of french stew (daube provençale) and is related to the hispanic/Portuguese word "adobo", like the Filipino "chicken adobo", which is essentially a chicken stew. The modern word "stew" comes from the french "étuver", which in old french was spelled "estuver" (heat in trapped steam/smoke) and you have the basis "-stuv-" right there, which became "stew" and also "stove" in english

[gtbkts]

My Maw(grandma) always called any stew made from "anything left in the pantry" a ragu. I never knew the 18th century folks did the same. My family is way more old school than I thought.

[sherievangelene]

We still eat salt beef and salt fish here in Newfoundland. Still prepared the same way it was prepared in the late 1700`s. We also, still eat mainly root vegetables. Jiggs Dinner is the ultimate Newfoundland dish still prepared and eaten the same way it was centuries ago. It's salt beef boiled with these root vegetables - cabbage, potato, carrot and turnip. Yum!

[advocate_of_HAKAI]

This channel reminds me of my grandfather, whom I lost in 2022. It also reminds me of the bakery he ran for nearly 70 years.
God bless all of you who work on every single one of these videos.

[MC-]

Perfect video to watch on a cold Maine winter day. I have my coffee, and now it’s time to sit down and enjoy this video. Happy Sunday.

[dwaynewladyka]

A good beef stew is definitely a great comfort food. Add biscuits for dipping into the stew, and it's heavenly. Cheers!

[jamesellsworth]

RYAN, RYAN! It is fine to see you again...and bearing a fine winter recipe as well. In Western New York State, people used pearl onions, carrots and potatoes, and a bit of celery in beef stew. I suspect that in 'your' time, milking breeds were also slaughtered as beef. The animals selected may have been a bit 'long in the hoof' and therefore, tough. In any case, we get to 'larding' (forcing fat into slits in the cut) or 'barding' (wrapping a layer of fat over the cut.) Larding uses a special kind of 'needle' with a trough in the center and a plunger on one end to inject a long sliver of fat.

[twistedbranchesfishing]

I picked up a small package of bison meat from the grocery store. Now I know exactly what I'm going to make with it. Thank you once again, Townsends!

[MichaelJohnson-giqo]

Looks like a good old fashioned pot roast. Looks fantastic and I fully agree that after the day's tasks, to come in to the full house of the scent and finally getting to enjoy the meal. Perfect.

[silvek]

These videos always come out on late evening in Australia, making me crave all sorts of food just before bed 😂

[gregzeigler]

In Ohio, we had cool houses to store meat. An actual building, usually insulated with saw dust, straw, or hay. These had very thick walls, roof and one door. They were usually not very big(one room size, though my grandma's was in her garage and was roughly 10 foot long by 5 foot wide). Many of these had running water through them and that produced a very cool room along with the insulation. Stepping into one, in a hot summer day, was like walking into an air conditioned room.

[MrMann]

I'm 50, as a boy I learned to cook from my mom who was born in 1934, she learned from her mom who was born pre 1900's. This time period style of cooking was basically what I experienced growing up, and I'm thankful I've retained at least some of that cooking knowledge

[suburbanhiker]

I like how you mention, coming in from working outside and smelling the food. I do that on PURPOSE a lot of times when I am making beef stew or pot roast. I will get it started in the slow cooker and try to find work to do outside, be it in the yard or garage, or a long day of hiking, so that I will have an amazing appetite when the food is done and it tastes as good as it smells. Another great video!

[dwaynewladyka]

I would also imagine that wild game, such as bison, elk, deer, moose, or rabbit, have been used in stews, during the time period. Cheers!

[mikemiller]

My cast iron humidifier and dutch oven don't leave my stove top in the winter... those old cook books were merely suggestions on how to assemble a meal with what you may have on hand and that's pretty close to how i cook today ...thanks for bringing your suggestions for us to watch.

[WIImotionmasher]

I know they've hosted many videos before but I just wanna say, excellent host. Townsends is not the only host on this channel and It's worth applauding a performance matching that high standard Townsends sets.

[clogs]

My mother always added flour and water dumplings. Hello from the UK!

[KevinTerry-dn]

Always a pleasure to watch, glad to see Ryan once again.