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Hamburger Steak
From Original White House Cookbook, 1887
Serves 2
A brown gravy can be made from the frying grease.
Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 75. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
HAMBUBGER STEAK. Take a pound of raw flank or round steak, without any fat, bone or stringy pieces. Chop it until a perfect mince ; it cannot be chopped too fine. Also chop a small onion quite fine and mix well with the meat. Season with salt and pepper ; make into cakes as large as a biscuit, but quite flat, or into one large flat cake a little less than half an inch thick. Have ready a frying pan with butter and lard mixed ; when boiling hot put in the steak and fry brown. Garnish with celery top around the edge of the platter and two or three slices of lemon
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