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Buraki

A historical recipe from Allied Cookery, by Grace Clergue Harrison, Gertrude Clergue (1916).

A historical recipe

Allied Cookery: British, French, Italian, Belgian, Russian, by Grace Clergue Harrison, Gertrude Clergue (1916). Project Gutenberg eBook #44947.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From Allied Cookery, by Grace Clergue Harrison, Gertrude Clergue (1916). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #44947 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44947). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Russia. Associated with Russia by the source's category: Russian (confidence 0.65). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

  • 5 lbs. of fat beef
  • a tablespoon of butter stew them
  • 1 spoonful of flour mixed

Method

  1. Cut in cubes 4 or 5 lbs.
  2. of fat beef in enough water to make a good bouillon and boil it well.
  3. Cut some raw beets into small thin slices about an inch long, chop some onion, and with a tablespoon of butter stew them until tender and somewhat brown;
  4. add to the beef bouillon 1 spoonful of flour mixed with 2 spoonsful of vinegar, the beets, and onion and let all this cook in the oven until the beets and beef are quite tender.
  5. It should be closely covered.
  6. Sausages and some pieces of ham may be added if wished.
  7. Before you serve the bouillon, add some sour cream.