Beef à la Mode

Ingredients

• a nice thick piece of beef off the lower sirloin weighing about 6 pounds
• 1 onion
• 1 tablespoonful salt
• 7^ tablespoonful pepper
• 4 ounces larding pork
• 4 ounces raw ham
• 3 onions cut into slices
• 2 carrots
• Y, pint Rhine wine
• 1 tablespoonful butter
• 1 tablespoonful fiour
• 1 pint of the strained broth

Method

1. 1

   Prepare the beef with incisions and fill with pork and ham.

2. 2

   Layer a saucepan with pork, ham, onions, carrots, and bouquet.

3. 3

   Place the beef on top, add wine and broth, cover, and cook slowly for 3.5 hours.

4. 4

   Remove meat, strain broth, and prepare sauce with butter and flour.

5. 5

   Serve with sauce over the meat.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 159. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

eef ft la Mode. — Procure a nice thick piece of beef off the lower sirloin weighing about 6 pounds; chop fine 1 onion and some parsley, add 1 tablespoonful salt, 7^ tablespoonful pepper ; cut 4 ounces larding pork and 4 ounces raw ham into finger-thick strips, and make with a pointed knife incisions 1 inch apart in the meat ; roll the pork and ham in the seasoning, put the strips of pork and ham alternately into the incisions ; tie the meat with a string into a perfect round shape. Cover the bottom of a saucepan with three thin slices of larding pork, 4 ounces raw ham, 3 onions cut into slices, 2 carrots, and a large bouquet ; place the meat on top of this, add Y, pint Rhine wine and sufficient white broth to reach half way up the meat ; cover with buttered paper, put on the lid and cook slowly 37^ hours. When done take out the meat, remove the strings, trim neatly, lay it on a warm dish ; free the broth from every particle of fat and strain it. Melt 1 tablespoonful butter in a saucepan, add 1 tablespoonful fiour, stir and cook a few minutes; add 1 pint of the strained broth

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