Also 5 stwed, 6 stude, stued(e, stuyd, 6–7 stewd, 7 stu’d. [f. STEW v.2 + -ED1.] Of meat, fruit, vegetables: Cooked by slow boiling in a closed vessel. Of tea: Made strong and bitter by being kept too long in the pot.
c. 1450. Two Cookery-bks., II. 72. Stwed Beef … Stwed Mutton.
1538. Elyot, Dict., Offella,… also a potage made with pieces of flesshe, as stuyd brothe or forced gruell.
1555. in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford (1880), 230. Item, stude meate … xd.
c. 1596. Henslowe, Diary (1904), I. 32. Then take a stewed pryne and plucke owt the stone.
1664. F. Hawkins, Youths Behav., II. 178. A dish of stu’d Oysters.
1747. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, ii. 48. A stewed Pheasant.
1816. Tuckey, Narr. Exped. R. Zaire, iv. (1818), 138. A repast … consisting of a stewed fowl, a dish of stewed beans, and cassava bread named Coanga.
1915. [W. H. L. Watson], in Blackw. Mag., May, 600/2. We had a great meal off lunch-tongue, bread, wine and stewed pears.
absol. 1861. [Trevelyan], Horace at Univ. Athens (1862), 24. I’m … tightly filled with roast, and boiled, and stewed, and pulled, and grilled.
b. Comb. † stewed-pot, a stew of various ingredients (cf. STEWPOT 2); stewed quaker U.S. (see quot. 1890).
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, S 2 b. Neither are these parts seuerally distinguished in his order of handling, but, like a Dutch stewd-pot iumbled altogether.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulgar T., Stewed quaker, burned rum with a piece of butter, an American remedy for a cold.
1890. Century Dict., s.v. Quaker, Stewed Quaker, a posset of molasses or honey, stewed with butter and vinegar, and taken hot as a remedy for colds. (Colloq.)
¶ c. With pun on STEWED ppl. a.2
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., II. iii. 128. There’s no more faith in thee then in a stu’de Prune. So 1597–1603 2 Hen. IV., II. iv. 158, Merry W., I. i. 296, Meas. for M. II. i. 92. Ibid. (1606), Tr. & Cr., III. i. 44. Sodden businesse, there’s a stewed phrase indeede.
1609. Dekker, Gull’s Horn-bk., v. 25. When your Knight is vpon his stewed Mutton, be you presently … in the bosome of your goose.
