Fillet of Beef with Mushroom Sauce

Ingredients

• two short fillet under the rump
• two slices of fat pork
• one slice of onion
• a bit of bay leaf

Method

1. 1

   Wipe the fillet, remove fat and veins, lard with pork, rub with salt and pepper.

2. 2

   Place pork, onion, and bay leaf in a baking pan, add the meat, and bake in a hot oven for thirty minutes, basting often.

3. 3

   Serve with mushroom sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kirmess cook book (1907), page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FILLET OF BEEF WITH MUSHROOM SAUCE. Mrs. T. K. Egbert, New York. Buy the short fillet under the rump, using two if necessary. Wipe, remove the fat and veins and ten- dons in the middle, and have* it well larded with thin strips of pork. All this can be done by the butcher. Then rub the fillet well with salt and pepper. Put two slices of fat pork in baking pan with one slice of onion and a bit of bay leaf

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