Heat 50 gram butter until brown and stir fry the beef in it until it is brown on all sides. Add the flour and the garlic and stir fry two minutes more. Add the wine, the herbs de provence and salt to taste and bring this to the boil; simmer on very low heat for 2 hours. In the meantime, stir fry the bacon and onions in the remaining butter for 10 minutes, add the mushrooms and stir fry on high heat until they have shrunk; add the brandy. After two hours, add this to the meat and simmer for half an hour more. Serve with potato puree.

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Stir fry the onions for 5 minutes on low heat. Add the tomato puree, the honey and the tomatoes and heat two minutes more. Mix this with all other ingredients and shape it into a meat loaf. Bake the meatloaf for one hour at 170 degrees Celsius.