Durham Cutlets

Ingredients

• lb. cold minced beef
• lb. bread-crumbs
• I oz. flour
• I oz. butter
• I egg
• pint weak stock, or
• i dessert-spoonful Worcester sauce, or
• I dessert-spoonful tomato sauce
• Salt and pepper

Method

1. 1

   Melt the butter in a saucepan, mix in flour, add slowly the stock or water, stir till it boils.

2. 2

   Add sauces, salt, pepper, and 4 tablespoonfuls of bread-crumbs, mix well together.

3. 3

   Spread on a large dinner-plate and set aside to cool.

4. 4

   Divide the mixture into 8 or 12 parts, form each part into the shape of a cutlet.

5. 5

   Brush well over with beaten egg, cover with bread-crumbs, place in a frying-basket, and fry a golden brown in hot fat.

6. 6

   Drain on kitchen paper.

7. 7

   Put a piece of macaroni in the thin end of each cutlet to represent a bone.

8. 8

   Arrange on a hot dish, and garnish with parsley.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Household cookery (1905) by E. Crichton, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Durham Cutlets \ lb. cold minced beef. i dessert-spoonful Worcester \ lb. bread-crumbs. sauce, or I oz. flour. I dessert-spoonful tomato sauce. I oz. butter. \ pint weak stock, or I egg. \ pint water with \ tea-spoonful Salt and pepper

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