Meats: Beef
Braised Beef. 3 pounds beef, 2 ounces fat salt pork, 2 tablespoonfuls flour, 3 teaspoonfuls salt, teaspoonful pepper, 1½ pints water, 2 tablespoonfuls minced onion, 2 tablespoonfuls minced carrot, 2 whole cloves, 1 sprig parsley.
Cut the pork into thin slices and fry until brown and crisp. Take out the pork, putting the vegetables in the fat remaining in the pan, and cook slowly fifteen minutes. Rub MEATS half the pepper and 2 teaspoonfuls salt into the piece of meat, and place it in a deep graniteware pan. When the vegetables are cooked, put them with the meat, first pressing from them as much fat as possible. Into the fat remaining in the pan put the flour, and stir until it becomes brown. Add the water gradually, stirring all the while. Season this gravy with the remainder of the salt and pepper, and boil for five minutes; then pour over the meat in the pan. Add the cloves and parsley.