Beef (Stewed)

Ingredients

• One tablespoonful of butter
• 2 sliced onions
• 12 whole cloves
• 3½ teaspoonful salt
• ½ teaspoonful of black pepper
• 1 pt. of cold water
• 2 or 3 lbs. of tender beef
• a little flour
• a few sprigs of sweet basil

Method

1. 1

   In a stewpan, fry onions in butter until brown, adding cloves, salt, and pepper.

2. 2

   Add cold water and beef cut into small pieces.

3. 3

   Cover and stew gently for 2 hours, adding flour thickening before serving.

4. 4

   Sweet basil can be added for flavor.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The white ribbon cook book (1894) by Kathryn Armstrong, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Beef (Stewed) — One tablespoonful of butter, 2 sliced onions, 12 whole cloves, allspice, 3^ tea- spoonful salt, ^ teaspoonful of black pepper, 1 pt. of cold water, 2 or 3 lbs. of tender beef, a little flour, a few sprigs of sweet basil. In a stewpan place a large tablespoonful of butter, in which fry until quite brown two sliced onions, adding, while cooking, 12 whole cloves; ditto allspice; 3^ teaspoonful of salt, and half that quantity of black pepper; take from the fire, pour 1 pt. of cold water, wherein lay 2 or 3 lbs. of tender lean beef cut in small, thick pieces; cover closely, and let all stew gently 2 hours, adding, just before serving, a little flour thickening. A few sprigs of sweet basil is an improvement. Irish SteTT — Cut three pounds of the neck of beef into small pieces, put in a saucepan and cover with half a gallon of boiling water, add a teaspoonful of salt, 2 sliced onions and 3 or 4 pepper-corns, and simmer gently for 3 hours. Pare and quarter half a dozen pota- toes, add to the meat, and cook half an hour longer; thicken with the beaten yolk of an egg and a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour. Meats, 65 Hamburg Steak — This is a nice way to cook Hamburg steak: Chop fine 1 pound of round steak, add 2 small onions, chopped fine, and pepper and salt to taste. Flour your hands, take two tablespoonful of the mixture and make into small, flat cakes- Have a large lump of butter very hot in your frying-pan, drop in the cakes and fry brown on either side. Some people make a gravy by adding a couple teaspoonfuls of flour to the butter in the pan, stirring in half a pint of cold water, with salt and pepper, and letting it boil up. Hash — Put 1}/^ teacups of boiling water into a saucepan, and make a thin paste with a teaspoonful of flour and a tablespoonful of water. Stir and boil it for 3 minutes. Add half a teaspoonful of black pepper

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