Beef a la Daub

Ingredients

• 2 teaspoons of allspice
• 12 peeled onions
• Fat steak
• Salt
• Pepper
• Flour
• 1 pint of water
• Parsley
• Thyme
• Bay leaves
• Flour
• Garlic (optional)

Directions

1. Get a fat steak, wash, salt, and pepper it, and lard it all over.
2. Pierce it through with a knife and slip in thin pieces of raw middling.
3. Flour it and brown it well in a spider.
4. Add some parsley, thyme, bay leaves, and 1 dozen onions, peeled, and a little flour to thicken the gravy, a dessertspoonful of allspice.
5. Brown the meat.
6. Add 1 pint of water (and garlic if desired).
7. Stew togehter for 4 hours.

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Paul Johnson
Louisiana Anthology
June 16, 2021