Fried Beef with Mushrooms
Origin: Chicago, Illinois
Source: Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), 1914
Ingredients
- 1 pound beef
- 1 pound mushrooms
- 1 small onion
- 6 lotus seeds
- 2 tablespoonfuls syou
- 1 teaspoonful salt
- 0.5 pound suet
Instructions
- Chop up the suet and fry it out until all the fat renders.
- Drain off the solids.
- Fry the beef pieces in the rendered fat until good and brown.
- Add the onion and slice the lotus seeds.
- Cut up the mushrooms and turn them in.
- Fry for about two minutes.
- Add the syou and salt.
- Cover tightly and let simmer for fifteen minutes.
- Serve with rice.