Hidden Steaks

Ingredients

• two slices of beef
• two or more porterhouse steaks
• half a can of mushrooms
• salt the steaks
• pepper the steaks
• a gill beef stock
• a piece of butter the size of an egg

Method

1. 1

   Butter, salt, and pepper the steaks.

2. 2

   Layer mushrooms between the beef slices, sew them together, and rub with vinegar and salt.

3. 3

   Cook over hot coals for 10-15 minutes.

4. 4

   Serve with mushrooms and juice, optionally making gravy with additional ingredients.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 350. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Hidden Steaks. — Have two slices of beei, each half an inch thick, cut from round. Take two or more porterhouse steaks, from one and a half to two inches thick ; remove bones from each, taking care not to separate tenderloin from upper part of steak. Butter, salt and pepper the steaks on each side ; spread over one slice of the round, half a can of mushrooms ; place porterhouse steaks on the mushrooms, then distribute the rest of the mushrooms over the steaks, covering them with the other slice of beef from the round. Bring the edges of the two slices together and sew. Rub vinegar and salt over the outside of each slice, which will harden them and 414 MEATS. ' .1. not only prevent their juices from dropping into the fire when being cooked, but force them into the enclosed steaks. Place the meat then on a double wire broiler and cook for from ten to fifteen min- utes over a bed of hot coals, turning the broiler every minute or two. The outside of the slices from the round will be done to a crisp. Be- fore serving, draw the thread binding them together, and lift care- fully off the upper slice, placing it with the crisp side down on a platter. Remove the steaks to a hot dish and spread over them all of the mushrooms. Scrape with a spoon the inside of each slice of the round, obtaining a quantity of rich juice, which pour over the steaks. If a gravy is desired, turn this juice into a saucepan, add a portion of the mushrooms, a piece of butter the size of an egg and a gill beef stock

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