STEWED BEEF WITH OYSTERS (Cold Meat Cookery)

Ingredients

• A few thick steaks of cold ribs or sirloin of beef
• 2 oz butter
• 1 onion sliced
• pepper and salt to taste
• 1/2 glass port wine
• a little flour to thicken
• 1-2 dozen oysters
• rather more than 1/2 pint of water

Instructions

1. Cut the steaks rather thick, from cold sirloin or ribs of beef; brown them lightly in a stewpan, with the butter and a little water;
2. add 1/2 pint of water, the onion, pepper, and salt, and cover the stewpan closely, and let it simmer very gently for 1/2 hour;
3. then mix about a teaspoonful of flour smoothly with a little of the liquor;
4. add the port wine and oysters, their liquor having been previously strained and put into the stewpan;
5. stir till the oysters plump, and serve.
6. It should not boil after the oysters are added, or they will harden.