Ragout De Boulettes Canadian Meatballs - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 onion, finely chopped
1 tablespoon bacon grease
2 lbs ground pork
1 cup celery, diced
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon clove
SEASONED FLOUR
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
4 cups beef broth
BROWNED FLOUR
3 tablespoons flour

Preparation

Brown finely chopped onion in bacon grease.
Add to ground pork along with celery, allspice, cinnamon, and cloves.
Shape into balls about 1-1/2 inches in diameter.
Roll in seasoned flour (flour, salt, and pepper combined).
Drop meatballs into boiling beef broth.
Reduce temperature; simmer for 1 hour.
Thicken remaining stock with browned flour; season to taste.
NOTES FOR THE COOK:
You may make beef stock or use boullion cubes and water.
Browned flour is something our Mothers and Grandmothers made. It is very simple to make by just stirring several tablespoons of flour back and forth in a dry medium hot skillet. This type of flour will not thicken as quickly as plain flour because the heat breaks down the starch cells. It takes 3 tablespoons of browned flour to do the work of 1-1/2 tablespoons of plain flour. 'Flour may be browned in a hot oven' is what recipe says; I don't know about that; I think it could burn pretty easy.