Curried Steak

Ingredients

• two onions
• one apple
• a pound of steak
• a tablespoon of curry-powder
• a tablespoon of flour
• half a pint of water or gravy
• lemon juice

Method

1. 1

   Slice the onions and apple, fry them in butter to a light brown.

2. 2

   Cut the steak into neat squares, mix curry-powder, flour, and salt on a plate, rub each piece of meat into it, and fry quickly.

3. 3

   Turn into a saucepan with hot water or gravy, and simmer gently for an hour.

4. 4

   Add lemon juice and serve with boiled rice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 89. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CURRIED STEAK. Slice two onions and one apple, and fry them in butter to a light brown. Cut a pound of steak into neat squares, mix a tablespoon each of curry-powder and flour, and salt to taste, together on a plate, rub each piece of meat into it, and fry quickly. Turn all into a saucepan with half a pint of water or gravy, which should be hot, and simmer gently for an hour; add lemon juice, and serve in a meat dish, with a border of boiled rice piled round. Mrs. Charlotte Rice. SPICED BEEF. Boil a shank of beef in as little water as will merely cover it. Cook till meat falls from the bone. Chop very fine, spice with ground cloves, pepper, salt and summer savory. Add sufficient of the liquor in which it was boiled to moisten well. Press into molds, and when cold slice. LiBBiE Thompson. CREAriED DRIED BEEF. (Fit for a Prince.) Pick in small pieces one-fourth of a pound of thinly-cut rather moist dried beef and brown in a little butter. When brown pour in it a coffee- cup of milk and cream. Let it come to a boil and slightly thicken with a little butter and flour creamed together. When it boils, pour it over a platter of golden brown toast and serve it at once. Mrs. M. BEEF PIE WITH POTATO CRU5T. When you have used the best of a cold roast of beef take the small pieces or as much as will half fill a granite baking pan; also any gravy that you have saved, a lump of butter, a bit of sliced onion, pepper and salt, and enough water to make plenty of gravy; put over a fire, thicken by dredging in a tablespoonful of flou

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