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Portuguese Beef

Ingredients

• 2 pounds of cold beef
• 1/2 pint of any brown gravy
• 1 small onion chopped fine
• 1 orange
• 1/4 saltspoonful of grated nutmeg
• cayenne
• 1 gill of port wine
• slices of bread

Instructions

Cut in thin shavings the cold beef, and put it into a sauce-pan with the gravy, and heat it gradually; in another pan put the onion, the rind of the orange chopped, the juice, the grated nutmeg, as much cayenne as can be taken up on the point of a very small pen-knife blade, and the port wine; boil these ingredients rapidly until the liquid is reduced one half, and then mix them with the beef; fry in hot fat some slices of bread, cut in the shape of hearts, about two inches long and one inch wide, pile the beef in a mound on a hot dish, lay the croutons of fried bread around it, and serve it hot.

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Source

The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery (1877).