Beef-broth from the Pot-au-Feu of Smaller French Households

Ingredients

• Meat, 750 grm.
• bones, 125 grm.
• water, 4 litres
• salt, 30 grm.
• carrots, 150 grm.
• onions, 150 grm.
• leeks, 200 grm.
• celery, 10 grm.
• clove, 1
• turnips, 150 grm.
• parsnips, 25 grm.

Method

1. 1

   Combine beef, bones, water, salt, carrots, onions, leeks, celery, clove, turnips, and parsnips in a pot.

2. 2

   Bring to a boil and simmer until the flavors meld and the broth is rich.

3. 3

   Strain before serving.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The spirit of cookery (1895) by Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Thudichum, page 97. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Beef-broth from the Pot-au-Feu of Smaller French Households. The name of iM-au-feu, as used in older French culinary writings, applies to a mixture of various kinds of meat and vegetables all stewed together after the manner of the ancient oille, or olid of the Spaniards. But the name as here used applies to a mixture of beef and vegetables l)oiled with a relatively large amount of water, the main object being evidently the production of a considerable amount of broth to be further developed into soup. We quote recipes in themselves very old, to sliow that they are still in use with all their virtues and faults unaltered; one is for a 2)ot-au-fcu with about 3 lb. of beef, called the lorye ; and rOT-AU-FEU 139 another with lb. of beef, called the, small* We give the quantities in grammes of the original : (a) Larger pot-au-feu : Meat, 1 kilo 500 grni. ; bones, 400 grm. ; water, 8 litres ; salt, 60 grm. ; carrots, 300 grm. ; onions, 300 grm. ; leeks, 400 grm. ; celery, 25 grm. ; cloves, 2 ; turnips, 300 grm. ; parsnips, 50 grm. (h) Small 2^ot-a2ir-feit, : Meat, 750 grm. ; bones, 125 grm., or about the quantity which generally accompanies the meat — that is to say, imposed by the butcher on the pur- chaser; water, 4 litres; salt, 30 grm.; carrots, 150 grm.; onions, 150 grm. ; leeks, 200 grm. ; celery, 10 grm. ; clove, 1 ; turnips, 150 grm. ; parsnips, 25 grm.

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