to hash beef
(from The Virginia Housewife by Mary Randolph, 1860)
Ingredients:
Instructions:
(from The Virginia Housewife by Mary Randolph, 1860)
Ingredients:
sliced raw beef
a clove of garlic
pepper and salt
butter
brown flour
Instructions:
Cut slices of raw beef, put them in a stew pan with a little water, some catsup, a clove of garlic, pepper and salt, stew them until done, thicken the gravy with a lump of butter rubbed into brown flour. A hash may be made of any kind of meat that has been cooked, but it is not so good, and it is necessary to have a gravy prepared and seasoned, and keep the hash over the fire only a few minutes to make it hot.
In honor of Hash day - from 'The Virginia Housewife," 1860.
This recipe doesn't sound anything like what we think of today as hash, more like stewed beef with pan gravy. And the catsup surprised me. But according to Mrs. Mary Randolph of Virginia, this is hash:
This sounds like it would be quite doable over a camp fire! Just need some way to refrigerate everything until you're ready to go.
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