Skip to main content
Main

Broiled Beefsteak

A steak cooked over hot coals, greased with butter, served with juices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Broiled Beefsteak

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat a grill over hot coals and grease the grates with butter.

Cook

  1. Place the steak on the grill and cook one side until done.

  2. Warm a platter with a little butter and place the steak cooked side down on it to collect juices.

  3. Do not press the meat.

  4. Return the steak to the grill and cook the other side to your liking.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Steak
Provides the main protein; its thickness and tenderness shape the juiciness of the finished dish.

“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.

More broiled steak recipes

Pan 5 See all 129 →

You might also like

Tomato SoupTomato Soup526 recipesBrown BreadBrown Bread461 recipesMutton BrothMutton Broth292 recipesYorkshire PuddingYorkshire Pudding264 recipes