Stufato alla Florentina (Stewed Beef)

Ingredients: Beef, mutton, or veal, onions, Burgundy, rosemary, stock, tomatoes, butter, potatoes, garlic.

Chop an onion and three leaves of rosemary; fry them up slightly in an ounce of butter. Now add meat (mutton, beef, or veal), cut into average -sized pieces, salt it and fry it slightly, then pour half a glass of Burgundy over it, and add two tablespoonfuls of tomato conserve, or fresh tomatoes in a smash. Mask the stewing pan and cook gently, stir occasionally, and add some stock in case the stew gets too dry. Potatoes can be added if you like. Cut them up, put them in the stewpan an hour before serving, and cook them with the meat. A clove of garlic with one cut may be added for five minutes.