Recipe - Kens Beef Bourguignon

5 pound Beef; cut into cubes
Flour for dusting meat
One fourth cup Butter or margarine
One fourth cup Olive oil
Cognac
One half pound Bacon; chopped
4 Cloves garlic; chopped
2 Carrot; chopped
2 Leeks; chopped
4 md Onion; chopped
2 tablespoon Parsley
2 Bay leaves
1 teaspoon Thyme
1 Bottle burgundy wine
2 pound Onions; cut or sliced up
1 pound Mushrooms; cleaned

Dust beef with flour and brown in butter and olive oil. Pour warm cognac
over it and light. (I have never used the cognacit's too expensiveand I
never noticed a difference in the taste. But don't tell Ken).

Brown the bacon, garlic, carrots, leeks, onions and parsley. (I also never
put leeks in it) Add the vegetables to the meat in an oven proof dutch
oven.

Add bay leaves, thyme, wine. Add enough water to cover all the meat. Bake
at 350F for 1One half to 2 hrs. Stir in 1 tablespoon flour mixed with 1
tablespoon butter. Bake 23 hrs. more.

Brown the onions and mushrooms in margarine. Sprinkle with sugar. Add to
meat before serving.

Recipe by: card file/meat

Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by BLAdams96@aol.com
on Sep 23, 1997