Onions with Beef-steak

Ingredients

• two large Spanish onions
• an ounce of butter or good dripping
• a pound of steak
• three ounces more of butter
• a table-spoonful of walnut ketchup
• a little pepper
• a little salt

Method

1. 1

   Peel and slice onions.

2. 2

   Melt butter in a saucepan, brown steak, add pepper, salt, onions, and more butter.

3. 3

   Cover and simmer until onions are tender.

4. 4

   Serve steak with onion gravy sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1021. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Onions, with Beef-steak, &e.— Take two large Spanish onions. Remove a thin piece oft' each end, peel off the outer skins, and cut them into slices a quarter of an inch thick. Place an ounce of butter or good dripping ia a saucepan, let it melt, then put with it a pound of steak, divided into pieces a Uttle thinner than for broihng. Bro^v-n these in the batter, add a little pepper and salt, the sliced onions, three ounces more of butter, but no liquid ; cover the saucepan closely, and simmer gently until the onions are tender. Arrange the steak neatly m the centre of a hot dish, boil up the omon gravy sauce with a table-spoonful of walnut ketchup

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