Slow frying, which means stewing in melted grease for twenty or thirty minutes, is one of the most effective ways ever invented of spoiling good food and ruining digestion.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
On the other hand, from the point of view of fuel used, it is the most expensive of all forms of cooking; and unless a fire is being kept up for other purposes, which allows boiling or stewing to go on on the back of the stove as an "extra," without additional expense, careful experiments have shown that the prolonged boiling needed by many of these cheaper and coarser foods, especially such as are recommended by most diet reformers, brings their total cost up to that of bread, milk, eggs, sugar, and the cheaper cuts of meat,-all of which are more wholesome and more appetizing foods.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
He turned and crashed two of my stewing beakers to the floor and trampled on the mess.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford