Bought some short-dated stewing beef the other day and wanted to make something other than goulash which I've probably made between - veal and beef - close to half dozen times this year. Found a recipe for a once-vulgar dish, brown beef stew with dumplings. Don't think I've seen this offered in any place in the U.K. for 30-40 years (maybe in the frozen section of a supermarket), and it's surprisingly rather obscure even where I am, in the past let alone current day.