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Beef Heart with Ragout Sauce

4 servings

Ingredients

• Beef heart (pcs)
• Water (a little)
• Salt (a little)
• 1 pcs Bay leaf
• Spices (a little)
• Onions (plenty)
• Brown flour (plenty)
• Pickled cucumber, peeled, sliced (a little)
• 1 pcs Onion, chopped
• 0.5 upper cup Currants, cleaned
• Vinegar (a little)

Instructions

1. Cook the beef heart until tender in a little water with salt, a bay leaf, spices, and plenty of onions.
2. Remove it from the broth and cut it into cubes.
3. Thicken the broth with plenty of brown flour, add sliced, peeled pickled cucumbers, a chopped onion, and ½ upper cup of cleaned currants.
4. Cook everything until tender, season the sauce with vinegar, and add the beef heart to bring it to a boil once more.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.