Chili Con Carne from the 1920s

Instructions

1. Place soup bone in pot and cover with water; cook slowly like soup.
2. Cut beef into very small pieces, fry until brown, add water and stew about an hour.
3. Remove bone from soup, cut off meat if any and put back in the pot, add the stewed beef with the gravy, small piece of onion, salt, pepper, and the heated tomatoes.
4. Put the beans on to cook in a separate pot at the same time you cook the soup bone.
5. Allow the beans to boil up, pour water off and add fresh water; cook till half done.
6. Then stir beans into meat and tomato mixture, add red pepper to taste, and cook till beans are done.