Stews have been in existence an awfully very long time to put it mildy. The phrase a stew helps make the history quite tough to track though - Any two foods simmered inside a liquid together constitutes a stew: hungarian goulash, coq au vin, carbonnades a la flamande, beefd stroganoff, bouef bourguignonne - each one is stews.
To discover the earliest written mention of the them, you'll need only consider the earliest cookbooks recognized to humanity. "Apicius de re Coquinaria" (Apicius - Dining and cooking in Imperial Rome) contains recipes for lamb and fish stews, though we can't be sure from the author since we all know of at least 3 different Romans alive in that period of 1st century BC to 2nd century AD.
Going back even more, there is numerous evidence from ancient primitive tribes who survived before 19th and 20th centuries (BC, that's) that they boiled foods together - essentially such a stew is. For instance, Amazonian tribes used Turtle shells, boiling the entrails from the turtle with various other ingredients. Other cultures have been demonstrated to have large clam shells to boil shells. Archeologically there's evidence of this practice returning 7,000 as well as 8,000 years.
The Scythians (who lived in the 8th to 4th centuries BC) have been demonstrated to have used the "pauch" of the animal, mix water by using it and boil it on the bone fire! The bones burn well, and also the pauch contains all of the meat being stripped off. What are the "puach" actually was is anyone's guess, however it was asserted in this way, primitive man boiled the beast by itself. Ingenious really!
Of course, the invention of pottery some 10,000 in years past made the building of stews a great deal simpler.
The invention of the delicious stew recipe managed to get even easier to create a tasty one - and also the stew recipes collection has tons!
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