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Potatoes Baked with Steak

Potatoes baked with steak, parboiled and browned in the steak's gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Potatoes Baked with Steak

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Parboil, skin, and quarter the potatoes.

Cook and serve

  1. About 10 minutes before the steak is done, lay the potatoes around it in the pan.

  2. Brown the potatoes in the hot gravy.

  3. Serve the potatoes in the dish with the steak laid on the outer edge.

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

Large potatoes
Parboiling and quartering gives them a tender interior that browns in the gravy.
Steak
Provides the main protein and the drippings that flavour the gravy the potatoes brown in.

“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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