Creamed Chipped Beef

Ingredients

• a pound of dried beef
• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• two rounding tablespoonfuls of flour
• half a pint of stock
• half a pint of milk
• a teaspoonful of kitchen bouquet
• a dash of pepper
• the yolk of an egg
• four tablespoonfuls of cream

Method

1. 1

   Chip beef thinly, soak if too salty.

2. 2

   Heat butter in a pan, add beef, stir until heated.

3. 3

   Sprinkle flour, mix, and cook.

4. 4

   Add stock and milk, stir until boiling.

5. 5

   Add kitchen bouquet and pepper.

6. 6

   Remove from fire, add beaten egg yolk with cream, heat quickly, and serve garnished with toast.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from My best 250 recipes (1907) by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CREAMED CHIPPED BEEF Chip a pound of dried beef very thin and pull it apart in small pieces. If it is very salt soak it in boiling water for fifteen minutes. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter in a frying-pan; add the beef and stir over the fire until thoroughly heated; then sprinkle over it two rounding tablespoonfuls of flour; mix and cook. Add half a pint of stock and half a pint of milk. Stir until boiling. Add a teaspoonful of kitchen bouquet and a dash of pepper. Take from the fire and add the yolk of an egg beaten with four tablespoonfuls of cream

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