Beef à la Mode

The handbook of household management ... · Tegetmeier, W. B. · 1894

Source: The handbook of household management and cookery
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (12)

An ox-cheek
a cow-heel ↝ Beef, cow head [Beef, excludes ground]
six onions ↝ Onions, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
three carrots ↝ Carrots, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
one ounce of dripping
flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
pepper ↝ Spices, pepper, black [Spices and Herbs]
salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
cold water, one pint to a pound ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
two tablespoonfuls of flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
one of ketchup ↝ Ketchup [Tomato-based condiments]
one of water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]

Instructions (3)

Cut the cheek up, flour the pieces well, and put them with the dripping into a saucepan to brown.
Cut up the vegetables and the cow-heel and put into the saucepan with cold water, one pint to a pound, season to taste, cover close, and let it simmer for three hours.
Thicken the gravy with two tablespoonfuls of flour mixed with one of ketchup and one of water into a smooth paste.

Original Text

Beef à la Mode.—An ox-cheek, a cow-heel, six onions, three carrots, one ounce of dripping, flour, pepper and salt. Cut the cheek up, flour the pieces well, and put them with the dripping into a saucepan to brown; cut up the vegetables and the cow-heel and put into the saucepan with cold water, one pint to a pound, season to taste, cover close, and let it simmer for three hours. Thicken the gravy with two tablespoonfuls of flour mixed with one of ketchup and one of water into a smooth paste.

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