Minced Beef with Cucumbers

Ingredients

• Take a rump steak undressed
• half a pint of beef gravy
• Cut two large cucumbers
• an onion sliced
• some clarified butter
• a little vinegar
• a lump of sugar
• some plain sauce
• thicken the sauce with a little flour and butter
• the squeeze of a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Shred the rump steak finely and cook in clarified butter with salt.

2. 2

   Add beef gravy and simmer until thick.

3. 3

   Fry cucumber slices with onion, clarified butter, vinegar, and sugar until brown.

4. 4

   Serve the mince topped with the cucumber mixture, thickened sauce, and lemon juice.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 127. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Minced Beef with Cucumbers. Take a rump steak undressed, and with a sharp knife shred it very fine. Put it into a stew-pan with a little clarified butter and some salt; stir it over a quick fire for some minutes, then add half a pint of beef gravy; let it boil gently till it becomes of a proper thickness. Cut two large cucumbers in slices the thick- ness of a crown piece, and put them into a stew-pan with an onion sliced, some clarified butter, a little vinegar, a lump of sugar, and fry them of a bright brown colour ; add some plain sauce ; let simmer gently till sufticiently done ; then lay the mince in the dish, and proceed to pour the cucumber over it. You may, if you please, thicken the 220 THE THOROUGH GOOD COOK. sauce with a little flour and butter ; and add the squeeze of a lemon

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