Hamburg Steak

Ingredients

• Use round of beef
• grease with the meat fat
• Add flour
• stir into it slowly the boiling water or stock

Method

1. 1

   Wipe meat, cut into small pieces, remove fat and gristle.

2. 2

   Put through meat-chopper, add seasonings, form into 8 cakes.

3. 3

   Brown quickly in a greased frying-pan, then cook slowly for 10 min.

4. 4

   Make gravy with fat, flour, and boiling water or stock, season, and strain over meat.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The practical cookbook (1917) by Margaret W. Howard, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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