To Hash Beef
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- beef
- water
- catsup
- 1 clove of garlic
- pepper
- salt
- 1 lump butter
- flour
Instructions
- Cut slices of raw beef and put them in a stew pan with a little water, some catsup, a clove of garlic, pepper and salt.
- Stew them till done.
- Thicken the gravy with a lump of butter rubbed into brown flour.
- A hash may be made of any kind of meat that has been cooked, but it is not so good, and it is then necessary to have a gravy prepared and seasoned, and to keep the hash over the fire only a few minutes to make it hot.