# I'm looking for a good Irish stew recipe.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 1, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-good-irish-stew-recipe/739156 "2015-12-01T23:29:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-good-irish-stew-recipe/739156/1 "2015-12-01T23:29:36Z")

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Preferably one that uses lamb, dark beer, and potatoes cooked in with the stew.

Thank you for any input. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-good-irish-stew-recipe/739156/2 "2015-12-02T00:08:02Z")

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Cut your baby brother in two and serve him up as an Irish stew. Don’t forget to invite the neighbours in. 😉

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**Author:** ![MK\_KSU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@MK\_KSU](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MK_KSU)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-good-irish-stew-recipe/739156/3 "2015-12-02T02:59:30Z")

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Here are two links for recipes from [http://allrecipes.com](http://allrecipes.com/) that might be of interest to you:  
[http://allrecipes.com/recipe/16035/irish-lamb-stew/](http://allrecipes.com/recipe/16035/irish-lamb-stew/)  
[http://allrecipes.com/recipe/216925/jgs-irish-lamb-stew/?internalSource=search%20result&referringContentType=search%20results](http://allrecipes.com/recipe/216925/jgs-irish-lamb-stew/?internalSource=search%20result&referringContentType=search%20results)

Here’s another:  
[http://www.allparenting.com/my-table/articles/967085/irish-stew-with-lamb-potatoes-and-carrots](http://www.allparenting.com/my-table/articles/967085/irish-stew-with-lamb-potatoes-and-carrots)

And another:  
[http://www.food.com/recipe/irish-stew-with-lamb-and-guinness-390729](http://www.food.com/recipe/irish-stew-with-lamb-and-guinness-390729)

Hopefully, these recipes will give you some ideas or at least point you in the right direction. 🙂  
-MK (future librarian)

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-good-irish-stew-recipe/739156/4 "2015-12-02T05:38:05Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Cut your baby brother in two and serve him up as an Irish stew. Don’t forget to invite the neighbours in. 😉

And don’t forget to sing rickety-tickety-tin!

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**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-good-irish-stew-recipe/739156/5 "2015-12-02T07:25:58Z")

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Jonathan Swift had an excellent recipe, but some found it oddly disturbing, and it never caught on.