Meat Cakes
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
Method
For the sauce: Slice the vegetables (carrot, turnip, onions) and fry in 4 tablespoons of shortening for ten minutes.
Add flour, stock, mace, bay leaf, tomatoes, catsup, and herbs.
Stir till boiling, then simmer gently for forty-five minutes.
Rub through a sieve, season with salt, pepper, and red pepper, and use.
For the meat cakes: Grind steak and small onions together.
Add melted shortening, cheese, parsley, breadcrumbs, seasonings, and lightly beaten eggs.
Mix together, form into small cakes, toss in flour, and fry in hot shortening until cooked and browned.
Serve hot with the tomato sauce.
Original recipe, verbatim
Meat Cakes
1 lb. round steak yi lb. grated cheese
3 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 2 cupfuls breadcrumbs
3 small onions Salt, pepper, and paprika
1 tablespoonful chopped parsley to taste
2 eggs Tomato sauce
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Meats
For Sauce
4 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 can or >^ lb. fresh tomatoes
1 carrot 1 tablespoonful tomato catsup
1 turnip 1 bunch sweet herbs
2 onions Salt, pepper, and red pepper
3 tablespoonfuls flour to taste
2 cupfuls stock 1 blade mace
1 bay leaf
For meat cakes. Grind steak and onions together, add Crisco, cheese,
parsley, crumbs, seasonings, and eggs lightly beaten. Mix toget-her;
form into small cakes, toss in flour and fry in hot Crisco. Serve hot with
tomato sauce.
for sauce. Slice vegetables, fry in Crisco ten minutes; then add flour,
stock, mace, bay leaf, tomatoes, catsup, and herbs. Stir till they boil,
then simmer gently forty-five minutes. Rub through sieve, add seasonings
and use.
Sufficient for twelve meat cakes.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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