Thursday, August 21, 2025

Cecils with Tomato Sauce (An English Dish)

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  

RECIPE WAS FOUND IN 

FROM CRIB TO COLLEGE The PARENTS Magazine Title registered US Patent Office and in Canada 
May 1929 VOL IV No 5