Do you need a stock for carbonade flamande
I'm Flemish and I don't use stock at all:

butter
half an onion,
beef
a nice coat of mustard smeared on top of peperkoek:

ginger bread will do nicely as well
use &quot;Appenzeller Biberli&quot; if you want to give it a Swiss twist and call it &quot;Carbonade Suisse&quot;


pepper, salt, nutmeg
the darkest non-bitter beer you can find (Any Flemish beer would be better though)...

:-)