This is an excerpt from The Second part of the good Hus-wiues Iewell
(England, 1597)
The original source can be found at
the University of Michigan's "Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse"
To stewe Steakes.. TAke a necke of Mutton and cut it in péeces, and then frye them with butter vntill they be more then halfe enough fry them with a good many of Onions sliced, then put them in a little pot, & put thereto a little parsely chopt, as muche broath of Mutton or beefe as couer them, with a little Pepper, Salt, and Uergious: then let it séeth together very softly the space of an hower, and serue them vpon soppes.