Simple Curry of Beef

Ingredients

• a quart of meat
• three table-spoonfuls of butter
• half an onion, cut fine
• two table-spoonfuls of flour
• one teaspoonful of curry-powder
• a pint of stock or water

Method

1. 1

   Cut the meat into small pieces and season.

2. 2

   Cook butter and onion for eight minutes, then add flour and curry powder, stirring until smooth and brown.

3. 3

   Add stock or water, bring to a boil, and season.

4. 4

   Strain over the meat and cook for twelve to fifteen minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 132. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Simple Curry of Beef. Free the meat of skin, fat, and bone, and, cutting it into rather small pieces, season it with salt and pepper. For a quart of meat allow a sauce made as follows, in- creasing the quantities of the ingredients in the proper proportion if there be more than a quart : — Put three table-spoonfuls of butter into a frying-pan with half an onion, cut fine. Cook slowly for eight minutes ; then add two table-spoonfuls of flour and one teaspoonful of curry-powder

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