A very good Way to fry BEEF STEAKS

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (6)
Instructions (10)
  1. Cut your steaks as for broiling.
  2. Put them into a stew-pan, with a good lump of butter.
  3. Set them over a very slow fire.
  4. Keep turning them till the butter is become a thick white gravy.
  5. Pour it into a bason, and pour more butter to them.
  6. When they are almost enough, pour all the gravy into your bason, and put more butter into your pan.
  7. Fry them a light brown over a quick fire.
  8. Take them out of the pan, put them in a hot pewter dish.
  9. Slice a shallot among them.
  10. Put a little [shallot] in your gravy that was drawn from them, and pour it hot upon them.
Original Text
A very good Way to fry BEEF STEAKS. CUT your steaks as for broiling, put them into a stew-pan, with a good lump of butter, set them over a very slow fire, keep turning them till the butter is become a thick white gravy, pour it into a bason, and pour more butter to them; when they are almost enough, pour all the gravy into your bason, and put more butter into your pan, fry them a light brown over a quick fire, take them out of the pan, put them in a hot pewter dish, slice a shallot among them, put a little in your gravy that was drawn from them, and pour it hot upon them: I think this is the best way of dressing beef steaks. Half a pound of butter will dress a large dish.
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