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Spiced Mutton Stew with Apricots (recipes) and Reduce (medicine)


Spiced Mutton Stew with Apricots (recipes)








Serves 4



Preparation time

less than 30 mins



Cooking time

1 to 2 hours

















Ingredients



½ a leg of mutton or a kilo of stewing lamb250g/9oz hunza apricots, or organic, unsulphured dried apricots2 tbsp olive or sunflower oil3 cloves garlic, crushed 2 large onions, peeled and sliced3 large carrots , peeled and cut into 2cm/¾in chunks2 cinnamon sticks2 tsp ground cumin 1 tbsp whole coriander seeds, lightly crushed6 cardamom pods, lightly crusheda few small pieces dried ginger root (or1 tsp powdered)pinch of macelamb/mutton stock (made in advance from bone)1 glass white wine125g/4½oz good fruit chutneysalt and freshly black pepper



Method



1. Bone out the leg leaving the very tough meat at the end of the knuckle on the bone. As the meat is to be cut into pieces, no great subtlety is required in taking it off the bone just try and keep the pieces as large as possible to begin with. Trim any major fat and gristle off the meat and cut into large (5x5cm/2x2in) pieces. Most meat for stews is cut too small. 2. Roast the bone and the knuckle in a hot oven for ten minutes, put in a pan with a few stock Vegetables (carrots, onion, celery) and a bay leaf, bring to the boil and then simmer very gently for 1½-2 hrs. Strain the stock through a fine sieve.3. Rinse the apricots well in cold water then place in a bowl. Pour over enough boiling water from the kettle to barely cover them. Leave to soak for at least an hour (if you are using hunza apricots, better make it two).4. Heat half the oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat. Add the garlic, onion and carrot and sweat for a few minutes until softened. Add all the spices, and fry for a few more minutes. Transfer to your tagine or stockpot. Turn up the heat under the (now empty) frying pan and add the rest of the oil. Brown the meat quickly in small batches and add to the Vegetables. Pour over the juice from the soaked apricots, the glass of Wine, the chutney and enough stock to just (and only just) cover the meat. 5. Bring to the boil, then reduce immediately to a very slow simmer. Cook like this, uncovered (or in a low oven with a lid on if you prefer) for 1½ hours. Add the apricots at this point (any earlier and they would get too mushy) and cook for a further ½ hour. By this time the meat should be extremely tender. Taste a bit and if in doubt cook for a little longer.6. Serve with boiled rice, into which you have stirred 5g/1 tsp of whole cumin or caraway seeds.



Reduce (medicine)


reduce


1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. "And to his brother's house reduced his wife." (Chapman) "The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us." (Evelyn)

2. To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat. "An ancient but reduced family." "Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it." (Tillotson) "Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their fears." (Milton) "Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced." (Hawthorne)

3. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.

4. To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp. "It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust." (Milton)

5. To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or Vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.

6. <mathematics> To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours. To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.

7. <chemistry> To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in General, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; opposed to oxidize.

8. <medicine> To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.

<chemistry> Reduced iron, metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or Other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also iron by hydrogen.

<mathematics> To reduce an equation, to reform the line or column from the square.

Synonym: To diminish, lessen, decrease, abate, shorten, curtail, impair, lower, subject, subdue, subjugate, conquer.

Origin: L. Reducere, reductum; pref. Red-. Re-, re- + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Redoubt.

Source: Websters Dictionary