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Just the weather for stew
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Yes you can use it as veg stock 
Yes you can make them separately - just dump them in a pan of gently boiling water for 20 minutes. Alternatively microwave them for two minutes or so. They never seem to come out quite so well as when done in the casserole or stew - but are edible even so. If you ever do them in the slow cooker - they need to go in an hour before the end of cooking time.
What I'd do is ladle out some of the stock into a saucepan to cook your dumplings in. I think they'll be more tasty than doing them in water. When cooked, you can always add them to the slow cooker to bubsimmer for a short while too.0 -
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has anybody got any ideas what i can use as a gravy for my stew tomorra please? ive just cooked the steak and realised ive no mix for the gravy.. shame on me... !!! i have got beef gravy, and stock cubes also usual spices if tht helps at all.... its all getting thrown into a slow cooker early tm morning as im working 8am til 5.45!does my bum look big in this sig?0 -
tin of chopped tomatoes and an oxo cube
Oh and a splash of worcester sauce. :hello:
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have you got cornflour?I am responsible me, myself and I alone I am not the keeper others thoughts and words.0
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I just add one oxo cube to 1/2pint of water (I use two to make a pint of liquid).
To thicken the liquid. In the last hour of cooking in the slow cooker I mix cornflour with a little water to make a paste then mix with some stock from the slow cooker, finally stir into the slow cooker stew.£2 Coins Savings Club 2012 is £4.............................NCFC member No: 00005.........
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ooh i forgot to say, no worcester sauce, or cornflour and tomatoes are a no no
thanks for posting though. ... does my bum look big in this sig?0 -
stock cube or marmite for some flavour, to thicken - have you any flour, or potato? or pasta? the flour could be mixed with butter and stirred in towards the end of the cooking time, the stock/marmite in from the beginning. at a stretch pasta theortically could thicken it a bit, but i'd need the advice of someone else if this cooks though in a sc? (think it would as people make rice puds in them)...nov grocery challenge, £.227.69/300, 9/25 nsd: , 7 Cmo, 10 egm.
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used a raw potato grated into it to thicken and cook for few mins more.I am responsible me, myself and I alone I am not the keeper others thoughts and words.0
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