=Bullock's Heart.=--THIS is an inexpensive portion of the beef, but a
very tasty one when properly cooked. It should always be served on very
hot dishes, both plates and platter. If you elect to roast your heart,
put in a basin of warm water and let soak for an hour to draw out the
blood. Wipe dry, brush with oil or butter and tie or skewer in shape.
Put in well-greased bag and roast about two hours. Serve with a border
of carrots sliced and fried.
=Stewed Bullock's Heart.=--Soak in a basin of warm water for an hour,
then drain and wipe dry. Cut in halves, rub each side with flour and put
in a frying pan with a little hot butter. As soon as browned, transfer
to a buttered bag, adding four or five onions sliced and browned lightly
in the same butter, together with a sprig of thyme and salt and pepper
to season. Add a half cupful of water and cook slowly about three hours.
=Filet of Beef.=--Cut from the end of a tenderloin of beef, slices about
5/8 of an inch thick. Flatten down to about 3/8 of an inch and trim
round. Salt lightly on both sides, dust with pepper, and lay in a little
hot melted butter, flavored with a tiny scraping of garlic for an hour,
turning three or four times in the meantime. Take out, put in a
well-buttered bag, seal and cook twenty-five minutes. Serve on small
pieces of toast that have been spread with butter and browned in a bag,
pouring over them the juice of the meat that will have collected in the
bag.
=Hamburg Steak.=--Hamburg steak, which is too often a delusion and a
snare as furnished by the inexperienced cook, can be so manipulated in
paper bag cookery as to emerge a very delectable and decorative dish. In
the first place never telephone for hamburg steak nor buy that already
chopped and mounded ostentatiously on a platter with a garnish of
parsley. Naturally the butcher works up his trimmings and inferior cuts
into this comparatively inexpensive and much patronized form. Having
purchased your cut of round steak in the slice, its lack of natural fat
must be made up by the addition of a little beef suet (preferably from
the kidney). A piece of suet the size of a butter nut may be allowed to
each pound of lean meat. Next, if possible, get the butcher to chop it
by hand rather than by the easier-to-him method of running it through
the meat grinder. Now having your good meat at home it may be prepared
in any one of a half dozen ways. For the Hamburg steaks, press lightly
together into cakes about the size of a chop. If onion is desired a
little onion juice may be added with discretion, but for most tastes
boiled onions served separately, to accompany the steak, will be found
preferable, or a few rings of raw onion added to a lettuce salad. The
closely packed Hamburg steak is bound to be tough and dry. Better add a
beaten egg to hold the chopped meat together than press the small and
delicate particles of meat compactly.
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