Pelotas a la Portuguese

Ingredients

• One quart can of tomatoes
• Two pounds chopped beef
• one onion, chopped fine
• two cups bread crumbs
• a little parsley
• salt
• pepper
• four cloves
• four all-spice

Method

1. 1

   Put tomatoes in a kettle on top of stove, simmer for one and a half hours.

2. 2

   Add pepper, salt, onions, allspice, and cloves after it starts to boil.

3. 3

   After two and a half hours, add chopped beef, onion, bread crumbs, parsley, salt, and pepper.

4. 4

   Make into meatballs the size of a plum and put into sauce, boiling slowly for one and a half hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Stag Cook Book: Written for Men by Men (1922) by Carroll Mac Sheridan, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PELOTAS A LA PORTUGUESE This serves from six to eight people and is my favorite dish/* One quart can of tomatoes. Put in kettle on top of stove, simmer or let boil slowly for one and a half hours. Add pepper, salt, two onions cut in fine slices, four all- spice and four cloves. The cloves and allspice to be added after it starts to boil. After two and a half hours add: Two pounds chopped beef ; add one onion, chopped fine, two cups bread crumbs, a little parsley

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