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Onions for Steak

Thinly sliced onions cooked in steak fat until tender and browned, then seasoned with salt and served over steak.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the skin from the onion and slice it thinly.

  2. Heat the dripping or steak fat in a frying pan.

Cook and serve

  1. Add the sliced onions to the hot pan, cover, and cook for 15 minutes until tender and brown.

  2. Season with salt and serve over the steak.

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

Onion
Softens as it cooks and browns, giving sweetness and savoury depth to the dish.
Dripping or steak fat
Conducts heat in the pan and carries flavour from the steak into the onions.

“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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