Instead, new ingredients and water are added when necessary and left simmering – cooking at a temperature just below boiling so that the food bubbles gently.
This, however, was full of dead bees, wasps, beetles, and leaves, well steeped and simmered, and would, therefore, require boiling and filtering through fresh charcoal before it could be made available.
And that beef neck is a perfect product to stir into a really speedy curry like this because it feels like it's been cooking down and stewing down for hours and hours and hours because it has.
This is an unfortunate stew of unpleasant circumstances. Chronic disease is driving a lot of this early death in women. A lot of this is death before the age of 50, believe it or not.