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Cooking a Steak

A steak seasoned with coarse sea salt and black pepper, cooked on a gridiron over a bright fire.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cooking a Steak

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fire

  1. Prepare a bright fire, ensuring it is free from gas exhalations.

  2. Place the gridiron on the fire for about 1 minute.

Cook the steak

  1. Season the steak with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  2. Cook the steak on the gridiron, turning it occasionally until it reaches your desired doneness.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Steak
Is the main cooked protein; its surface browns over the fire while the inside cooks to the chosen doneness.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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