Description[]
Boiled beef with horseradish
- Serves 6
Ingredients[]
- 1 onion
- 1 carrot
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 4½ pounds boiling beef
- 1½ tablespoons flour
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 tablespoon fresh horseradish
- 1 teaspoon vinegar
- salt
- pepper
- 4 large potatoes
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs — beaten
- ½ cup flour — sifted
- ½ cup dry bread crumbs
- ½ cup melted butter
Directions[]
- Slice onion and carrot.
- With other ingredients except the flour, place with the boiling beef in a kettle with enough water to cover.
- Let simmer 4 hours on top of the stove until tender.
- Remove fat from top of broth when cooled.
- Add flour to fat to make a smooth paste.
- Add 1 cup of the broth from the pan and cook, stirring, until thick.
- This is to be served as gravy for plain boiled potatoes.
- Slice the boiled beef and serve with: horseradish sauce mix all ingredients together, chill, and serve cold over cooled beef.
- For an unusual mixture of hot and cold, accompany the beef with: potato dumplings cook potatoes in their jackets until done.
- Peel and put them through a ricer, or mash them, while hot.
- Salt and let cool.
- Add eggs and mix well.
- Add the flour and work with the fingers until dough is smooth.
- If too moist, add a little more flour to make it firm enough to form a dozen or more dumplings, depending on their size.
- Drop the dumplings into a kettle of boiling water or into boiling stock if you have some left from the liquid the beef was boiled in.
- Cover and let cook 15 minutes.
- Brown the bread crumbs in the melted butter.
- Pour the buttered crumbs over the dumplings.