Fresh Beef Curry

Ingredients

• one pound of the meat
• one ounce of oil or butter
• half of a minced onion
• a teaspoon of curry
• half a pint of rich gravy or hot water
• the juice of one orange
• a heaping teaspoonful of apple sauce

Method

1. 1

   Cut beef into square pieces.

2. 2

   Fry onion in oil until brown, add beef and cook for twenty minutes.

3. 3

   Add curry powder, gravy or water, orange juice, and apple sauce.

4. 4

   Simmer for nearly an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Luncheon (1888) by Thomas J. Murrey, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fresh Beef Curry. — The best piece of meat for this dish is the lean part of the flank, called flank steak, which, being cross-grained. CURRY OF BRISKET OF LAMB. 4 1 allows the curry to thoroughly assimilate with every particle of the meat. Cut up one pound of the meat into neat square pieces. Put into a frying pan one ounce of oil or butter, and fry in it half of a minced onion, stirred until they begin to brown, add the beef, and stir to prevent burning for about twenty minutes; now add a teaspoon of curry and half a pint of rich gravy (if possible) or hot water ; simmer ; squeeze out the juice of one orange, sweeten it a httle, add it to the dish, add a heaping teaspoonful of apple sauce

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