Potted Beefsteak

Ingredients

• two or three pounds of rough cut beef
• a slice of bacon
• a bayleaf
• salt
• pepper
• little vinegar
• two cups water

Method

1. 1

   Put beef in a gallon jar with spices and water.

2. 2

   Cover and bake for 3 hours in a slow oven.

3. 3

   Strain gravy, skim fat, and add walnut catsup before serving.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 181. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Potted beefsteak (village bought, rough, 30 cents.) ■ Macaroni with creamed cheese (12 or- ders, 12 cents.) Green peas (from garden, worth 20 cents.) Lima beans (dried, y^ lb, and season- ing,^ 5 cents.) Tomatoes (i can, 15 cents.) Potatoes (plain steamed, 3 cents.) ^^j^? P[^ ^-^o- 593; 3 pies, 19 cents.) I Old-fashioned rice puddmg (2 qts, 13 cents; sauce, 3—16 cents.) Condiments, crackers, nuts, raisins, cheese (average, 25 cents.) Butter 15, milk an^ cream 30, coffee, tea,^ bread 10. Total, $2 46; 25 persons; nearly lo cents a plate. 591— Potted Beefsteak. 589— Buttered Eggs. Break some eggs — about 6 or 8 at a time — into a bright saucepan and add for each egg a tablespoonful of m.elted butter and very little salt. Have a pan of water boiling on the stove ; set the saucepan in it and siir and beat the eggs until they are cooked as thick as scrambled eggs. Serve sometimes plain in dishes same as scram- bled eggs, sometimes on fancy toast. 590— Graham Cakes with S(ur Milk- Cheapest. It is necessary to mix white flour with ^ Beef in pieces baked m a covered jar, like Boston beans. Put two or three pounds of rough cut beef into a gallon jar, with a few cloves, a slice of bacon, a bayleaf, salt, pepper, little vinegar and two cups water

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