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To fry Mutttn Steaks

From The prudent housewife, or Compleat English cook (1800).

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A historical recipe

The prudent housewife, or Compleat English cook, by Mrs Fisher and Hailstone, Edward, 1818-1890, former owner (1800).

United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a spoonful of red wine

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Take a loin of mutton, cut off the thin part, then cut the rest into steaks, and flat them with a cUaver, or paste pin.
  2. pin, season them with some pepper and salt, and fry them' in butter over a-qiiick fire ;
  3. as you fry them, put them into an earthen pot till you have fried them all ;
  4. then pour the ' fat out of the pan ;
  5. put in some gravy and the gravy that comes from the steaks, with a spoonful of red wine, an anchovy, and an onion shred ;
  6. shake up the steaks in the gravy, thicken it ’ with some flour, and serve them up.
  7. Garnish your dish with horse radish and shalots.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Chef's knife
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Credit

From The prudent housewife, or Compleat English cook (1800), printed page 28, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/2662425R.nlm.nih.gov

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.