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On 2016-03-11 4:59 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 3/11/2016 1:18 PM, Cheri wrote:
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>> One thing to me is....WHY boil off all the flavorful fat? oh well.
>>
>> I make mine in the oven. I love it, but usually only buy it a couple of
>> times a year.
>>
>> Cheri
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>>

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> A technicality, you simmer, not boil. The flavor is not all lost. You
> cook it with potatoes, carrots, cabbage and they absorb a lot of the
> flavor.



Sorry. Not a technicality. There is a big difference in the way meat
turns out when simmered compared to when it is boiled. As my mother used
to say, a stew boiled is a stew spoiled.