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Mushrooms With Steak Orders

From Cooking for profit, 1886

Serves 2

Canned mushrooms are imported and vary in quality.

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mushrooms With Steak Orders. Price in first-class restaurants 20 to 25c additional each person. About half a can with each beefsteak. Drain the mushrooms from their liquor and fry (saute) them in a small frying pan with a little butter. Add pepper and salt. When they have acquired a slight color draw them to one side of the pan, put in a heaping teappoonful of flour and rub it smooth in the hot butter, still keeping the pan over the fire, and when the flour has become slightly browned pour in the mushroom liquor gradually and a few spoonfuls of water. Shake in the mushrooms, let all boil up, squeeze in the juice of a quarter of a lemon
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