Sauce for Spaghetti

Ingredients

• a half teacup full of dried mushrooms
• cover the bottom of your frying pan or skillet with butter or olive oil
• one big onion
• two cans of tomatoes
• three small cakes of Hamburg steak or chopped beef
• two teaspoons of Eagle Chili Powder
• two teaspoons of Lea & Perrins sauce
• five dissolved cubes of beef or chicken bouillon

Method

1. 1

   Soak dried mushrooms in boiling water for half an hour.

2. 2

   In a frying pan, cook chopped onion in butter or olive oil.

3. 3

   In another pan, stew tomatoes for half an hour.

4. 4

   Cook Hamburg steak with onions, then mash together.

5. 5

   Add stewed tomatoes through a sieve and let steep for one hour with chili powder or sauce and bouillon.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Stag Cook Book: Written for Men by Men (1922) by Carroll Mac Sheridan, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SAUCE FOR SPAGHETTI This sauce for spaghetti is a real Italian mixture — and wonderful. This is how I learned to make it in Italy: Place in a cup or bowl a half teacup full of dried mushrooms. Pour boiling water over them and just let them stand until thoroughly softened, say — about a half hour. In the meantime cover the bottom of your frying pan or skillet with butter or olive oil (I prefer the butter). Chop one big onion and cook slowly, stirring frequently. In another pan or kettle place two cans of tomatoes. Stew them for half an hour. Then make three small cakes of Hamburg steak or chopped beef and put them in to cook, with the onions. Cook thoroug^y. Add at the same time the mushrooms which have been softened and chopped into fine particles. When the meat is cooked through mash the cakes up with a fork — ^mixing well with onions and mushroc«ns. Now add the stewed tomatoes and, in doing this, press them through a sieve or colander. Stir well. Place on back of stove and let steep for one hour after adding two teaspoons of Eagle Chili Powder (if available) [ii8] WRITTEN FOR MEN BY MEN or two teaspoons of Lea & Perrins sauce with five dis- solved cubes of beef or chicken bouillon

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