This section is from the book "The Modern Cook: A Practical Guide to the Culinary Art in All Its Branches", by Charles Elme Francatelli. Also available from Amazon: The Modern Cook: A Practical Guide to the Culinary Art in All Its Branches.
Prepare the ribs of beef for braizing in the usual manner, moisten with half a bottle of Madeira and a ladleful of good consomme ; braize the beef gently for about four or five hours ; when done, trim, glaze, and dish it up with alternate groups of fried potatoes in the shape of large olives, and any green vegetables the time of year may afford : use the clarified braize, reduced to an essence, as sauce, and send to table.
Trim and daube three small ribs of beef with some fillets of lean ham and fat bacon; place tham in an oval braizing-pan, garnish with six shalots, a grated stick of horseradish, and a garnished fagot of parsley and green onions; moisten with a bottle of Rhenish wine and a single ladleful of good strong broth, braize the beef gently on a slow fire, with live embers on the lid of the pan, taking care to baste the beef frequently with its own liquor; when done, glaze and dish it up ; strain the braize through a silk sieve into a stewpan, take off all the fat, add a small pot of red-currant jelly, the grated rind of two oranges, and the juice of four; reduce the whole to the consistency of sauce, pour it round the beef, garnish with a border of quenelles of pototoes (No. 312), glaze the beef afresh, and send to table.
Braized ribs of beef may also be sent to table in a variety of other forms; as, for instance, a VAnglaise, a la Milanaise, a la Macedoine, a la Royale, etc, for which see Braized Rolls of Beef.
 
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