Beef Croquettes (Strazzi)

Ingredients

• three ounces of buckwheat-groats
• a pinch of salt
• butter
• a pound of beef fillet
• a few tablespoonfuls of cooked fine herbs
• a pinch of onion chopped fine
• two tablespoonfuls of stock
• a little white wine
• a little thin glaze
• a little chopped parsley

Method

1. 1

   Boil buckwheat-groats with broth, salt, and butter until stiff.

2. 2

   Chop beef fillet, season, and flatten into strips.

3. 3

   Spread kascha on strips, roll them up, and bind with thread.

4. 4

   Fry in a buttered stewpan, add stock, cover, and cook on low heat.

5. 5

   Mix cooking stock with white wine and glaze, reduce, strain, and pour over strazzi.

6. 6

   Serve with mashed potatoes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 196. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

three ounces of buckwheat-groats (kascha) with broth, salt, and butter, but short of moisture so as to get it fairly stiff. When ready, take it off the fire, season, and finish with a few tablespoonfuls of cooked fine herbs. Pare a pound of beef fillet taken from the side near the head. Chop the meat, season, divide it in two, then flatten it with the blade of a knife into a thin strip of three inches width. On this strip spread a layer of the 495 BANQUETS OF THE NATIONS previously prepared " kascha," then transversely divide the strip in pieces two inches long, roll these pieces up about themselves in such a manner that the strip of meat encloses the kascha. Bind the strazzi with thread, range them one beside the other into a flat buttered stewpan, and sprinkle with a pinch of onion chopped fine. Set the stewpan on the fire, let strazzi fry slightly, add two tablespoonfuls of stock, cover the stewpan, and finish cooking on a very mild fire, with hot embers on the lid of the stewpan. At serving-time dish the strazzi, mix into their cooking stock a little white wine and a little thin glaze, which reduce till it be succulent ; pass it through a sieve, finish with a little chopped parsley

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