For Petone Listeners

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 120, 10 October 1941, Page 46

For Petone Listeners

| HAMBURGER: You need one pound of steak cut about 12-inch thick or more, 1 tablespoon grated onion, 1 tablespoon grated cheese, 1 tablespoon worcester sauce, pinch cayenne, salt to taste. Well butter a flat dish and dredge it with flour. Mark or dice the steak all over, on both sides, but do not cut it right through-just have the marks on it like a draught board. Then cut it into the number of portions, according to the number of persons; put in the dish, sprinkle. with the onion and cheese, a little flour, sauce, a dab; of butter on each, and almost cover with milk. Cook in a hot oven for thirty minutes then reduce the heat for another thirty minutes. A lovely gravy is made with the milky mixture. HAMBURGER SAUSAGE FRICANDELLES: You may like to try thesethey make a very tasty little dish. One pound of minced steak, %2lb. pork sausage meat, 2 tablespoons of minced onion, 1 teaspoon salt, 4 teaspoon pepper, a little thyme, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons of fine breadctumbs, dried. in the oven, and 2 tablespoons of water. Combine in the order given, Form into round flat cakes and fry in sausage fat, or dripping, for about eight minutes. They are extra nice with thickened stewed tomatoes. REAL AMERICAN HAMBURGER: Buy some ordinary mince, or mince a cheaper cut yourself, with the largest cutter on the mincer. Mix it in a basin with a little pepper and salt, a little flour, and bind with an egg. Roll out on a floured board, sprinkle chopped of rated onion on, fold over, and roll out again. Cut into shapes with a glass, and fry in hot fat about quarter of an inch deep. Serve with mashed potatoes.