Spiced Mexican Beef Chili

Directions

Take lean beef and cut in small dice, put to cook with a little oil.

When well braised, add some onions, a clove of garlic chopped fine and one tables poon flour.

Mix and cover with water or stock and two tablespoons espagnole, 1 teaspoon each of ground oregano, camino, and coriander.

The latter can be purch ased at any drug store .

Take dried whole peppers and remove the seeds, cover w ith water and put to boil and when thoroughly cooked pass through a fine strainer.

Add sufficient purée to the stew to make it good and hot, and salt to taste .

To be served with a border of Mexican beans (frijoles), well cooked in salted water.

Boil beans in an earthen vessel until soft (four to eight hours).

Mash and put them into a frying pan of very hot lard and fry until comparatively dry and light brown.

Sometimes chopped onions are put int o the lard before the beans are added and sometimes pods of red pepper or grated cheese.