Beef a la Mode

Ingredients

• Take a piece of beef
• half a calf's foot
• an onion
• a carrot
• a bunch of sweet herbs
• a bay-leaf
• thyme
• a head of garlic
• a few cloves
• salt
• pepper
• a glass of water
• half a glass of white wine
• a spoonful of brandy

Method

1. 1

   Beat and lard the beef with bacon, add calf's foot, onion, carrot, herbs, bay-leaf, thyme, garlic, cloves, salt, and pepper.

2. 2

   Pour over a glass of water and half a glass of white wine, or a spoonful of brandy, and stew until tender.

3. 3

   Strain the sauce, remove fat, and serve.

4. 4

   Requires at least four hours to stew over gentle heat.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 169. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Beef a la Mode. Take a piece of beef, either oft* the round or off the flank ; beat it, lard it with large pieces of bacon ; add half a calf s foot, an onion, a carrot, a bunch of sweet herbs, a bay-leaf, thyme, a head of garlic, a few cloves, salt and pepper. Pour over the whole a glass of water, half a glass of white wine, or a spoonful of brandy

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