Isabella Beeton

Beef-Steaks and Oyster Sauce

Preparation info
  • Sufficient for

    4

    persons.
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Great Cooks and Their Recipes
Great Cooks and Their Recipes

By Anne Willan

Published 1977

  • About

Oysters have long been used to enrich meat and poultry and they have only recently become expensive.

Ingredients

  • 3 dozen oysters, ingredients for oyster sauce
  • 2 lbs. of rump-steak
  • seasoning to taste of

Method

Mode

Make the oyster sauce and when that is ready, put it by the side of the fire, but do not let it keep boiling. Have the steaks cut of an equal thickness, broil them over a very clear fire, turning them often, that the gravy may not escape. In about 8 minutes they will be done, when put them on a very hot dish; smother with the oyster sauce, and the remainder send to table in a tur