Recipe: Tafelspitz

Ingredients

• about 1.5 kg beef topside in one piece (or other quality boiling beef, such as centre cut rump, chuck beef or brisket) / 3.5 lb
• beef bones, if desired
• 1 bunch carrots, yellow carrots, celeriac root, parsnips and parsley sprigs
• 1/2 leek
• 1 large onion with skin
• 2 bay leaves
• a few peppercorns
• salt
• soup garnishes such as semolina dumplings or "Frittaten" (sliced pancakes)
• freshly chopped chive