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brown stews

brown stews is the plural of brown stew.

Meaning of brown stew

Noun

brown stew (countable and uncountable, plural brown stews)

  1. (dated) A stew in which the meat is browned before being added
    • For a brown stew, the meat and sometimes the vegetables are browned in hot fat before being simmered1916, Mary Emma Williams, Katharine Rolston Fisher, Elements of the theory and practice of cookery; a textbook of domestic science for use in schools, New York & London: Macmillan, page 172
  2. (Caribbean, Jamaica) A stew cooked or served with a brown-coloured sauce
    • Increasingly preferred was the method known as "brown stew". Sullivan had recommended adding a brown gravy to broiled kingfish and stewing junefish in a brown sauce, thickened with flour.2008, B. W. Higman, Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, University of the West Indies Press, →ISBN, page 324

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What is brown stews the plural of?
Brown stews is the plural of brown stew.

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