Beef Olives (Mrs. Jackson's Recipe)

Ingredients

• rump steaks
• fine bread-crumbs
• pepper
• salt
• thyme
• onions
• butter or fat
• 1 pint water
• bay leaves
• brown flour
• thread

Instructions

1. Cut rump steaks into strips three or four inches long and quarter of an inch thick.
2. Sprinkle the strips with fine bread-crumbs, pepper, salt, and thyme.
3. Roll up each strip and tie with a thread.
4. Fry some onions in butter or fat.
5. Add one pint of water and some bay leaves to the onions.
6. Place the beef rolls into this mixture and stew gently for an hour.
7. Just before serving, remove the threads from the beef rolls.
8. Dredge the gravy with some brown flour to thicken it.