Fricassee of Dried Beef

Ingredients

• Pull the dried beef apart in tiny pieces
• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• a tablespoonful of flour
• half a pint of milk
• a dash of pepper
• half a teaspoonful of kitchen bouquet

Method

1. 1

   Soak dried beef in boiling water for fifteen minutes, then drain.

2. 2

   In a chafing-dish, heat butter, add beef, and cook until heated.

3. 3

   Sprinkle with flour, add milk, and stir until boiling.

4. 4

   Add pepper and kitchen bouquet, serve immediately.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from My best 250 recipes (1907) by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRICASSEE OF DRIED BEEF Pull the dried beef apart in tiny pieces, cover it with boiling water for fifteen minutes, and drain perfectly dry. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter in the chafing-dish ; when hot sprinkle in the beef ; stir and cook until the meat is thoroughly heated. Sprinkle over a tablespoonful of flour, and add half a pint of milk. Stir constantly until the mix- ture boils ; add a dash of pepper, and, if you have it, half a teaspoonful of kitchen bouquet

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