Fillets of Beef (with Olives)

Ingredients

• A piece of rump steak
• pepper, salt
• olives
• onions
• flour
• stock
• sauce

Method

1. 1

   Take a piece of rump steak, cut it into slices three-eighths of an inch thick, and trim them into shape.

2. 2

   Melt plenty of butter in a baking-tin, lay the fillets of beef in this, and let them stand in a warm place for an hour.

3. 3

   Sprinkle with pepper and salt, and fry in very hot butter, turning to let both sides take color.

4. 4

   Stone a quantity of olives and parboil them.

5. 5

   Fry some onions to a brown color in butter, add a little flour, and when colored, add as much stock as you want for sauce, pepper, salt, and spices to taste.

6. 6

   Let the sauce boil, then strain it, add the olives, and serve hot with the fillets in a circle around them.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ideal cook book (1899) by Anne Clarke, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fillets of Beef (with Olives)—Ingredients—A piece ofrump. steak, pepper, salt, olives, onions, flour, stock, sauce. Take a piece of rump steak

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