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Back in the late 1920's and early 1930's a woman by the name of Florence White compiled a large set of recipes to celebrate the regional dishes of England. The book Good Things in England was republished in 2003 and is listed on Amazon.co.uk for £12 and Amazon.com for $22.71. This Staffordshire Beef Steaks recipe that dates from 1823.

Ingredients: beef steaks, flour, pepper; salt; dripping; onions; boiling water; mushroom or walnut ketchup a spoonful.

Time: about 1 1/2 hours or more according to the tenderness of the meat.

Method:

1. beat steaks a little
2. flour them and season with salt and pepper
3. fry them a nice brown in a little dripping
4. lift them out and place them in a fireproof glass oven dish
5. fry some sliced onions, add a little flour to them, sufficient to take up all the fat
6. fry a nice brown but don't burn
7. pour enough boiling water over them to make a nice thick gravy (it must not be too thick)
8. boil up and stir in a good spoonful of ketchup and
9. put all in the oven dish with the steaks
10. put on the lid, put in the oven and cook until tender