Beef a La Mode
4 lbs. round beef. 2 carrots. 1 turnip. 1/2 onion. 2 pieces celery. 1 cup vinegar. 2 tomatoes or 1/4 cup juice. 1/2 pod garlic. 1 teaspoon salt. 1/2 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.