{"id":5449,"slug":"cold-beef-a-la-mode","title":"Cold beef à la mode.","description":"From The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book (1919) by Victor Hirtzler.","ingredients_raw":["two pieces of rump of beef weighing about six pounds each","salt and pepper","a spoonful of fat or butter","two spoonfuls of flour","one quart of boiling water","a pint of claret","one bouquet garni","twenty-four small raw French carrots","twenty-four small white onions","butter for frying onions","four quartered tomatoes"],"ingredients_norm":["rump of beef weighing about pounds each","salt and pepper","fat or butter","flour","boiling water","claret","bouquet garni","twenty small raw french carrot","twenty small white onion","butter for frying onion","tomato"],"steps":["Take two pieces of rump of beef weighing about six pounds each, season with salt and pepper, place in a vessel with a spoonful of fat or butter, and roast until nice and brown all over.","Then sprinkle with two spoonfuls of flour, and cook until flour is brown.","Then add one quart of boiling water and a pint of claret, one bouquet garni, twenty-four small raw French carrots, twenty-four small white onions fried in butter, and four quartered tomatoes.","Cover, and boil in the oven.","Remove the carrots and onions when soft, and continue cooking the beef until well done.","Put the beef in an earthern pot and lay the carrots and onions around it.","Reduce the sauce, by boiling, to half its volume, and strain over the beef.","Prepare the day before using, so it will have sufficient time to become cold."],"categories":[],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":null,"source_name":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39550","source_ref":"pg:39550:w77:7","authors_url":null,"license":"Public domain (US)","license_url":null,"extraction_confidence":0.95,"content_hash":"f3ea2c2e2e931ce46f3ef528c60d1348812c9ccd856de198e5e28390456e9f06","created_at":"2026-08-02T16:44:05Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:32Z","notice":"Historical recipe (1919), reproduced as published: it may reflect its era's ingredients, language, and food-safety practices. Apply modern judgment on cooking temperatures and preservation.","url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/cold-beef-a-la-mode"}