Beef a la Mode

Ingredients

• a piece of beef
• a few slices of bacon
• a few onions
• a few carrots
• a little celery
• a little butter
• a small cup of vinegar
• a few cloves
• a bay leaf
• slice of lemon
• enough stock or water to half cover

Method

1. 1

   Roll up the beef, lard it, rub with pepper and salt, and brown with bacon, onions, carrots, celery, and butter.

2. 2

   Add stock or water, cloves, bay leaf, and lemon.

3. 3

   Cook for two and a half hours, add vinegar, and serve with roast potatoes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A Book of Cooking and Pastry: A Collection of Original Receipts Gathered ... (1887) by C. F. Pfau, page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BEEF a la MODE. // Use short rfB T ]rf£ces; bones taken out, well rolled up, lard it through, rub with pepper, salt, lay in the pan a few slices of bacon, a few onions, carrot, celery, a little butter, and let it brown slowly; when brown, add enough stock or water to half cover, add a few cloves, a bay leaf, slice of lemon. Cook two hours and a half, add small cup of vinegar

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