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Conservation of Beef

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Conservation of Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Meat Loaf.

  2. This recipe is splendid to eliminate the waste of bread, so much desired in these times, and to conserve meat.

  3. Cost. 2 lbs. hamburger steak @ 15c. $0.3000

  4. 1 c milk 0268

  5. 1 chopped onion (Y2 c) 0125

  6. 1 c bread crumbs 0150

  7. 1 t sage 0083

  8. 2 t salt 0006

  9. % t pepper 0021

  10. Bake with wood fire (% use).. .0250

  11. Cost for loaf $0.4303

  12. Mix ingredients all together evenly into a loaf and bake in a long tin 1% hours. — Amy B. Westbrook, 1540 Sa- lem avenue, Albany, Or.

  13. Spanish Hamburger.

  14. Round steak, ground $0.1500

  15. 1 c bread crumbs 0150

  16. 1 small green pepper, chopped .0250

  17. 1 c tomatoes, minced ■ .0267

  18. 1 c milk 0268

  19. % t chili powder 0021

  20. 1 t salt 0003

  21. Gas 30 minutes 0127

  22. Cost for 4 persons $0.2586

  23. Or 6% cents each.

  24. Mix ingredients and form into a loaf. Put in greased pan and bake 30 minutes. Sauce left lit pan may be thickened with catsup and poured over loaf before serving. — H. C. Liar- sen, 712 Washington street.

  25. Beefsteak Padding Boiled.

  26. Cost. 1% lbs. shoulder steak $0.1800

  27. 2 c flour 0290

  28. 1 c finely minced suet 0625

  29. 2 medium sized carrots (2-3 c) .0200

  30. 1 T salt 0008

  31. Vz t pepper 0042

  32. % t soda 0002

  33. Wood fire, 3% hours (% use) .0595

  34. Cost of pudding for 4 $0.3562

  35. Or about 9 cents each.

  36. Cut steak into 3x2-inch pieces. Grind or chop suet very fine. Mix with flour, 1 teaspoonful salt and % teaspoonful soda. Make flour and suet into a stiff paste, using as little water as can be easily handled.

  37. Roll paste to % of an inch thick and to an even measurement all around. Place the steak and carrots

  38. peppered and salted in center. Mois- ten the edges of paste and draw to- gether, pinching firmly so as to be watertight, dip the pudding cloth in boiling water, spread out and sprinkle lightly with flour.

  39. Lift the dumpling on to the cloth, gather the cloth together and tie tightly, but leave a very little loose- ness for the dumpling to swell. Place in a pot of boiling water sufficient to cover dumplings. An old plate should be in pot below pudding. Boil steadily for three or four hours, add- ing more boiling water as it evapo- rates.— E. G. Woodham, Route 1, Mil- waukie, Or.

  40. Cold Boiled Brisket.

  41. 3 lbs. brisket at 12%c $0.3800

  42. V2 c vinegar 0125

  43. 1 T olive (or Wesson's oil) 0057

  44. 1 T onion ( % c) 0125

  45. 1 t salt 0003

  46. 1 bay leaf 0001

  47. Parsley from garden 0000

  48. 6 pepper corns 0010

  49. Wood fuel, V2 use, 2% hours.. .0425

  50. Serve 6 persons for $0.4546

  51. Or 7% cents each.

  52. Marinate beef in vinegar, oil, onion, parsley, salt, pepper and bay leaf over night. Cook in same liquid, then place under weight and let get cold. Liquid may be boiled down and used. A half cupful of pickles chopped may be added if desired. — Mrs. J. B. McC.

  53. Jellied Beef or Veal.

  54. 1 T gelatin 0300

  55. Y2 c chopped tomato 0134

  56. 1 T grated onion 0016

  57. 1 t salt 0003

  58. 14 t pepper 0021

  59. Yz Pint boiling water 0000

  60. Cost $0.1474

  61. Put meat through the food chopper, soak the gelatin for half an hour In half cupful of cold water, mix the meat with gelatin and water and heat until dissolved. Add vegetables and seaconing, then boiling water, and turn into a square mold and set away to harden. Serve cold, cut in slices. I send this, as it is economical and a good way to use left-over meat. — Mrs. G. Spencer, 1260 East Davis street.

  62. Absolutely Unbiased in Its Principles — The Evening Telegram

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

511Calories
38 gProtein
22 gFat
41 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Woodnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Chapel, Inie Gage, Mrs. [from old catalog]. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pepper + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Carrot + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together794 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, egg, pepper, carrot, corn):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, egg, pepper, carrot, corn. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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