Spanish Frico

Ingredients

• enough potatoes to make one and one-half pints
• cover with minced onions
• with rolled cracker
• two pounds of steak
• one pint of sweet cream
• seasoning the beef with salt and pepper
• pepper
• a lump of butter

Method

1. 1

   Half boil potatoes, slice, and line the bottom of a mold.

2. 2

   Layer with onions, rolled cracker, beef, and butter.

3. 3

   Repeat layers until ingredients are used, finishing with potatoes.

4. 4

   Add cream to just cover the last layer.

5. 5

   Steam for 2.5 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from High living (1904) by Linie Loyall McLaren,, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPANISH FRICO — Half boil enough potatoes to make when sliced one ana one-half pints. Line the bottom of a mold with these, cover with minced onions, then with rolled cracker ; add small squares of lean beef one-half of an inch thick, cut from the round, and on each piece place a lump of butter, first seasoning the beef with salt and pepper. Repeat the layers until the potatoes and two pounds of steak have been used, finishing with the potatoes. Then add one pint of sweet cream

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