When I first started writing this blog, it was mostly about food and the recipes I wanted to share with my daughters. These days, I refer back to the blog recipes rather than look in my old cookbooks, but today I was surprised to find that I had never blogged Brunswick Stew. Nor could I find it in written form, so this is my attempt to replicate it.
A little background. Long ago, my kids attended Williamsburg Community Child Care, which was located in a little frame house and sort of affiliated with the College of William and Mary. Everyone paid on a sliding scale and there was never as much money to run it as was needed. And so, there were the inevitable fund raisers.
Fortunately for us, we had some creative folks on board. Ed and Emily Pease suggested we make Brunswick Stew, cook it all night over an open fire, and then sell it on a fall football Saturday. They had a recipe, we had lots of able hands, and somehow we managed the pull the whole thing together so well that we repeated the fundraiser for years afterward.
