Curried Beef

Ingredients

• two large onions
• one apple
• one ounce of butter
• one teaspoonful of flour
• i saltspoonful of sugar
• and salt
• a full dessertspoonful of curry powder
• half a pint of good stock
• a teaspoonful of vinegar
• a dessertspoonful of chutney

Method

1. 1

   Chop onions and apple finely.

2. 2

   Melt butter, fry onions and apple until brown.

3. 3

   Sprinkle with flour, sugar, salt, and curry powder.

4. 4

   Add stock, mix until smooth, and simmer for one hour.

5. 5

   Add vinegar and chutney, then add meat and simmer for another hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Curried Beef. — Take two large onions and one apple, and chop them very fine. Melt one ounce of butter, and when it is hot, fry the onions and the apple together until they are quite cooked and a nice brown colour. Sprinkle over one teaspoonful of flour, i saltspoonful of sugar, and salt, and a full dessertspoonful of curry powder (more or less accord¬ ing to taste), and then add half a pint of good stock. Mix it all thoroughly until it is quite smooth, and let it simmer very gently for one hour. Add a teaspoonful of vinegar and a dessertspoonful of chutney

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