Beef stew

Homemade pie with meat, navy pasta, as well as mashed potato meat roll, cabbage soup, pearl barley porridge, etc. You can list dishes with beef stew indefinitely. Beef stew and then canned meat is called beef stew. This product, along with the pork version of stew, gained popularity back in Soviet times. Sometimes stew was the only available meat product for some segments of the population of a huge country.

Already in those days, beef stew enjoyed well-deserved popularity, primarily for the excellent taste of the product. In the USSR, beef stew was packaged in the same way as pork in tin cans. Along with canned fish, beef and pork stew became peculiar symbols of the Soviet era. However, beef stew is also in constant demand among modern housewives who have taken this hearty meat product into their arsenal.

In the early 19th century, French food industrialists began to use tin cans for conservation. Even at that time, it was found that the canned meat product perfectly retains its taste and consumer qualities if placed in cans. Moreover, cans were considered the most durable packaging for food. They did not break like bottles, but only deformed when they fell.

It is noteworthy that the first beef stew began to be produced for the needs of the British military, who began to receive a mandatory tin of canned meat in daily allowance. Since that time, many countries of the world have adopted the experience of the British and tin cans with beef stew from ordinary turned into a strategic food product. In the Russian Empire, beef stew has not been popular for a long time.

The first beef stew factory was opened only in 1870. However, a few decades after the launch of mass production, beef stew received well-deserved recognition. Beef stew, which is produced by modern canned food producers, is divided into several varieties depending on the meat components that are included in the product. There is a stew of beef of the highest and first grade.

It is not necessary to buy beef stew in a store, you can prepare a home version of the product, and instead of iron cans, use glass ones with a volume of 0. 5-1 liter. Before preservation, the jars and lids should be sterilized. In order to make a homemade stew of beef, you will need fresh beef meat.

Cut the meat into medium-sized pieces, place it in a saucepan, add water and put it on fire. We wait for the water to boil and remove the gray foam from the meat broth. Then add spices and herbs (black pepper - 10 peas, head of bulb onions, parsley and carrots cut into 2 halves). Cook all the ingredients over low heat, after a couple of hours take out the onions and salt the meat broth.

An hour later, add laurel leaf to the meat and boil for another 15 minutes. At the last stage, he takes out the bay leaf and leaving the pan on fire, we begin to spread the meat into cans. At the end, we cover the cans with tin lids and our homemade beef stew is ready.