Beef a la Mode

Ingredients

• a dressed cow heel
• an ox cheek
• three ounces of dripping
• six onions
• three carrots
• a sprig or two of parsley
• a bay leaf
• a pint of water
• two tablespoonfuls of flour

Method

1. 1

   Wash and cut cow heel into pieces.

2. 2

   Wash and rub ox cheek with salt, cut into pieces, and flour.

3. 3

   Melt dripping, fry meat until brown.

4. 4

   Add sliced onions, carrots, and tied seasonings.

5. 5

   For each pound of meat, add a pint of water mixed with flour.

6. 6

   Boil, then simmer for three hours.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BEEF -ALA-MODE. — Take a dressed cow heel, wash it thoroughly in water, and cut off all the flesh in neat pieces. Then take an ox cheek and well wash it in cold water, rub it with salt, and dry it with a clean cloth ; cut it into neat pieces and flour it. Weigh the flesh of both the ox cheek and cow heel ; then put three ounces of dripping into a large saucepan over the fire, and when melted put in the floured pieces of meat and fry them till they are a nice brown, stirring occasionally. Slice very thinly six onions and three carrots. Take a sprig or two of parsley, one of marjoram and thyme, and a bay leaf. Tie the seasonings together, and put them into the saucepan with the vegetables, and for each pound of meat add a pint of water, to which has been added two tablespoonfuls of flour

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