Homemade Beef Stew

Ingredients

• three pounds of rump, hip, or flank beef
• two chopped onions
• three ounces of butter
• two tablespoonsful of flour
• one pound of potatoes
• one cup of puree of tomatoes

Method

1. 1

   Cut beef into squares, season, simmer with onions and butter, add flour, cover with water, cook, add potatoes, and finish with tomato puree.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Hotel St. Francis cook book (1919) by Hirtzler, Victor., page 248. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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