RECIPES TRIED AND TRUE
"We never know what is hidden in each other's hearts; and if we had glass windows there, we'd need to keep the shutters up, some of us."
MEATS, POULTRY AND GAME
AMERICAN CHOP SUEY
- ½ cup boiled rice,
- 3 potatoes diced,
- 1 chopped onion,
- 2 tablespoons melted fat,
- ¾ lb. chopped beef,
- 1½ cups tomatoes.
Mix rice with diced potatoes and cook until soft. Drain and brown onion in fat add beef and sear well. Add rice, potatoes, tomatoes. Bake in casserole in moderate oven till brown. Left over cooked rice and meat may be used. Seven portions.
BAKED STEAK
Season with salt and pepper and place in baking pan. On top of steak, put sliced lemon, onions, green pepper, tomato catsup, very little Worcestershire sauce. Place in oven with cover and bake about twenty minutes.
BEEF A LA MODE
- 4 lbs. beef,
- 2 tablespoons fat,
- ½ cup of vinegar, water and wine,
- 1 chopped onion,
- 3 bay leaves,
- 3 slices lemon,
- 1 slice rye bread,
- Capers.
Melt fat and brown beef on both sides, then pour over vinegar, water and wine. Add onion, bay leaves, lemon, rye bread. Cover pot and let simmer until meat is tender. Place meat on platter, strain gravy, return to pot add capers, pour over meat and serve hot.
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