Fried Beefsteak with Onion Sauce

Ingredients

• Choose a tender steak cut from the round
• sufficient sweet salad-oil and vinegar
• fry the onions as directed in the recipe given below

Method

1. 1

   If the beef is not tender, moisten both sides with salad-oil and vinegar.

2. 2

   Heat a frying-pan until it sizzles when the steak touches it.

3. 3

   Quickly brown the steak on both sides, then cook to the required degree.

4. 4

   Fry the onions as directed.

5. 5

   When the beefsteak is done, season with salt and pepper, keep hot, and pour the onion gravy over it before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 151. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRIED BEEFSTEAK WITH ONION SAUCE. Choose a tender steak cut from the round : if the beef is not tender, put it, early in the evening, on a meat-dish containing sufficient sweet salad-oil and vinegar mixed to- SWE-DISHES (entries). 269 gether to cover the dish, and thoroughly moisten both sides of the beefsteak ; turn the steak over at bedtime. In the morning, heat a frying-pan hot eiiough to sizz when the steak touches it ; put in the steak, and quickly brown it on both sides ; when it is brown, set the pan where the heat is not too great, and cook the steak to the required degree ; mean- time fry the onions as directed in the recipe given below

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