Welsh Stew

Ingredients

• beef
• broth or water
• 20 to 30 leeks
• 24 button onions
• 5 to 6 young mild turnips
• 1 small lump white sugar
• 0.5 teaspoonful white pepper
• 1 teaspoonful salt

Instructions

1. Combine beef with broth or water in the same proportions as for German Stew and simmer gently for an hour.
2. Add the white part of the leeks (or button onions if preferred) along with the turnips cut in slices, a small lump of white sugar, nearly half a teaspoonful of white pepper, and salt (more than twice the amount of pepper).
3. Continue to stew the whole softly for a further hour and a quarter to an hour and a half until the vegetables are tender.