Scouse recipe

So all over Merseyside a popular dish to eat is scouse. Its a pot made stew that originated with sailors who would be working in the ports around Merseyside the basic scouse consists of the following stock, potatos,vegetables (normally carrots,cabbage,beetroot,turnip or sweede) lamb or beef , salt and pepper it was slow cooked and served with a cob of bread. Nowadays there are variations of the recipie the most popular being blind scouse which is a vegtable only stew. Some people also use herbs like rosemary and tyme some put alcahol in it normally a stout like Guinness or a brown ale. My dad used to use the herbs when we were kids but later when we were adults he added a tot of Guinness to it

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