Dried Beef

Ingredients

• The most common way of serving dried or smoked beef
• with a tablespoonful of butter
• and a little pepper
• allowing four to a half pound of beef

Method

1. 1

   Soak slices of uncooked beef in boiling water for ten minutes, then drain.

2. 2

   Cut into small bits, return to a hot pan with butter and pepper.

3. 3

   Stir in beaten eggs and cook for two minutes.

4. 4

   Serve in a covered dish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including .. (1902) by Marion Harland, page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DRIED BEEF. The most common way of serving dried or smoked beef is to shave it into thin slices or chips, raw; bat a more sav- ory relish may be made of it with little trouble. Fat the slices of nncooked beef into a frying pan with jast enough boiling water to cover them; set them over the fire for ten minutes, drain off all the water, and with a knife and fork out the meat into small bits. Return to the pan, which should be hot, with a tableenoonful of butter and a little pepper. Have ready some well-beaten eggs, allowing four to a half pound of beef

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