Steaks with Chestnuts

Name: Steaks with Chestnuts
Cuisine: England
Ingredients: 1 fine thick steak; good beef gravy; cayenne pepper; salt; 25 chestnuts; Espagnole sauce

Origin: London, England

Source: Anonymous, 1846

Ingredients

1 fine thick steak
good beef gravy
cayenne pepper
salt
25 chestnuts
Espagnole sauce

Instructions

Half fry the steak. Flour it and place it in a stewpan with a little good beef gravy. Season with cayenne pepper and salt. Simmer for about ten minutes. Add the peeled chestnuts with their inner skin scraped off. Let them stew with the steak until well done. A little Espagnole sauce may be added to heighten the flavor.