0 present participle of stew
1 to cook meat, fish, vegetables, or fruit slowly and gently in a little liquid
The cheaper cuts of beef are not being sold: mince and stewing steak.
A good small joint is better than a mass of gristly stewing steak.
My constituent's wife buys stewing beef at £1·63 a pound.
We have been told by various medical authorities that the continued stewing of the pot of tea is against the health of the people.
They are stewing in their old insularity.
Equally, they should not be pushed too much so that people are left stewing at stops, with the result that they do not want to travel on that service.
They can also be cooked like tripe or as omelette filling, and wood blewits also make good stewing mushrooms.
Thus, the main sources of poultry meat 100 years ago (spring chickens and stewing hens) have both been entirely supplanted by meat-type broiler chickens.
