Cecils with Tomato Sauce (An English Dish)
2 cups cooked beef chopped fine
4 tablespoons of bread crumbs
Dish 2 tablespoons butter
Yolks of 2 eggs
Salt to taste
A few drops of onion juice
1/2 cup of flour
Mix all together and shape in rounds or cones. Roll in flour and put into greased baking dish, and brown oven or under gas flame. Served with tomato sauce made as follows:
Tomato Sauce
2 cups stewed tomatoes
1 slice of onion
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
1/4 to 11/2 teaspoon salt
Cook onion with tomato till tender. Melt butter, add flour, and blend. When smooth and bubbling, add tomato mixture, stirring constantly to keep smooth. Let it boil three or four minutes, season, strain and serve with cecils. This is a good way to use up left over beef. See Menu III
May 1929 VOL IV No 5