Tournedos of Beef

Ingredients

• a cooked fillet of beef
• slices of bread
• fat taken from the stock-pot
• good gravy
• a garnish of olives, or flageolets

Method

1. 1

   Cut the fillet into slices and bread into the same size.

2. 2

   Fry the bread in fat and warm the beef in gravy.

3. 3

   Arrange alternately and fill the center with olives or flageolets.

4. 4

   Serve with a sharp sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery and housekeeping (1882) by Reeve, Henry Mrs., page 62. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Tournedos of Beef. Cut a cooked fillet of beef into slices half an inch thick, and cut slices of bread the same size and thick- ness ; fry the bread in fat taken from the stock-pot, and warm the slices of beef (warm, not boil) in good gravy ; arrange in alternate slices ; fill the centre with a garnish of olives, or flageolets

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.