Stewed Beef

Ingredients

• One pound stewing steak
• One ounce flour
• One ounce dripping
• One pint stock
• One onion
• carrot
• turnip
• Pepper
• salt

Method

1. 1

   Wipe the meat; leave it whole or cut into small pieces.

2. 2

   Skin, scald, and dry onion, cut into rings.

3. 3

   Make dripping hot in a stewpan, brown the meat quickly on both sides, then lift out onto a plate.

4. 4

   Fry onion for a few seconds, add flour, and fry until brown.

5. 5

   Add stock gradually, season with salt, bring to boil, and skim.

6. 6

   Return meat to pan, simmer gently for 1.5 to 2 hours.

7. 7

   Pile meat on a hot dish, season sauce, add cold water, boil, skim, strain over meat, and garnish with boiled strips of carrot and turnip.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Plain cookery recipes (1908) by Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Stewed Beef. ren ] the One pound stewing steak. One ounce flour. One ounce dripping. One pint stock. One onion, carrot, (small). turnip Pepper and salt

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