Dried Beef

Ingredients

• say to a pint of chipped beef, one quart of sweet milk
• one-half cup of corn-starch or flour
• two well beaten eggs
• a little butter
• and pepper

Method

1. 1

   Freshen dried beef in cold water, then boil.

2. 2

   Pour milk over beef, thicken with corn-starch or flour, butter, pepper, and beaten eggs.

3. 3

   Serve with baked potatoes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DRIED BEEF. The most common way of serving dried beef, is to shave it into thin slices or chips, raw; but a more savory relish may be made of it with little trouble. Put the slices of uncooked beef into a frying-pan with cold water, to freshen it; set it over the fire for ten minutes; when it comes to a boil, drain off the water and pour 36 MEATS. some milk on the beef — say to a pint of chipped beef, one quart of sweet milk. Thicken it with one-half cup of corn-starch or flour, a little butter and pepper, two well beaten eggs

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