Beef A La Mode Recipe
Ingredients:
- 4 lbs round beef
- 2 carrots
- 1 turnip
- ½ onion
- 2 pieces celery
- 1 cup vinegar
- 2 tomatoes or¼ cup juice
- ½ pod garlic
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ pod red pepper
- 2 tablespoons brown flour
- Wipe beef with fat and salt Pour over vinegar Cut up vegetables and put on beef Let stand several hours Pour off vinegar Put beef in pot with a little butter or crisco Fry on both sides quickly until brown Then add flour, one and one-half pints of water and vegetables Cook twenty minutes to the pound Half a cup of claret can be added
Directions:
- To prepare this Beef a la Mode Recipe, first get a thick piece of beef of 4 or 5 pounds from the round or rump. Trim the edges into good shape, wipe, and put it into a deep earthen bowl or jar. Pour over it a cupful of vinegar, in which have been steeped 1 finely chopped onion, 2 tablespoonfuls salt, 1 saltspoonful pepper, 1 teaspoonful each cloves, allspice, and mustard; a blade or two of mace and a bay leaf.