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Scraped Beef

A dish of finely chopped raw steak cooked with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Scraped Beef

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the beef

  1. Remove all hard and gristly parts from the steak.

  2. Lay the steak on a meat board and scrape it into fine bits with a knife.

Cook and serve

  1. Place the scraped beef into a pan over medium heat.

  2. Stir occasionally until thoroughly heated.

  3. Season with a little salt before serving.

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
Provides the main protein; scraping it finely gives the beef a soft, tender texture.

“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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