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Beef Stroganoff

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2 pounds beef tenderloin
Butter or margarine
1 tablespoon flour
1 cup beef stock or bouillon
½ pint sour cream
3 tablespoons tomato paste
¼ cup grated onion
1 teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon pepper

Cut the beef in ¼ inch slices with a sharp knife. Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a large saucepan. Add and stir in the flour. Cook and stir, over low heat, until mixture bubbles and is smooth. Slowly add and stir in the beef stock. Cook and stir until the mixture begins to thicken, then boil 2 minutes. Add sour cream alternately with tomato paste, a little at a time, stirring constantly. Simmer mixture, without boiling, about 10 minutes, stirring often.

Meanwhile heat 3 tablespoons more butter in a large skillet. Add the beef and brown well, turning to brown evenly. Add the onion, salt and pepper. Cook 10 minutes longer, stirring occasionally. Add the meat mixture to the cream mixture and simmer 3 to 5 minutes longer. If desired, serve the Beef Stroganoff with Kasha (buckwheat groats) or rice. Makes 6 servings.

Published by –COOKINDEX– Division of H.S. Stuttman Co., Inc., New York ©️ Copyright 1958 Tested Recipe Insititue, Inc., New York

Cabbage Schnitzel (Shnitszeli iz kapusty)

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4 servings

You will need
1 ⅔ lb. cabbage leaves
3 oz. ham
½ onion
3 tablespoons butter
1 cup milk
3 oz. white bread with crusts trimmed and cut into long strips
1 egg
little MSG (monosodium glutamate) (optional)
1 egg, mixed with 1 cup milk
little bread crumbs
butter or vegetable oil
1 ¼ cups Béchamel sauce
salt
pepper

Garnish:
4 carrots, glazed
4 small-sized tomatoes
pickled red cabbage
½ cup green peas

Slice both cabbage and ham in long strips. Chop the onions. Sauté them in butter. Add the milk, cover and simmer over low heat.

When vegetables are tender, turn off heat and cool. Add the bread, 1 egg, salt, pepper and MSG. Form 2 patties per person.

Dip the patties in the beaten egg and then in the bread crumbs twice. Heat vegetable oil and butter in a frying pan and brown them over medium heat. Lower heat, cover and cook, taking care not to burn.

Arrange the schnitzel with tomatoes, grazed [SIC] carrots, pickled red cabbage and green peas. Serve with hot Béchamel sauce.

© Shufunotomo Co., Ltd., Japan 1973

Кисель, Бапбка из твoрoга c oрехами и мë дом (Kiseli, bapka iz tvaraga su arekhami i miydom) (Kisel and Babka with Cottage Cheese)

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Kisel

4 servings

You will need
4 oz. canned pineapple
3 oz. canned pear
⅓ cup canned fruit juice
⅓ cup white wine
½ cup water
1 ½ oz. cornstarch
4 tablespoons sugar
juice of ⅓ lemon
2 tablespoons grenadine

Dice 2 pineapple rings and set aside. Combine the remainder of the pear and fruit juice and purée in a blender.

Add the wine, water, cornstarch, sugar and grenadine to the puréed mixture; pour into a pot, mix well and heat until thickened. Finally add the lemon juice and diced pineapple. Let cool, and then chill in the refrigerator. Serve in a glass dish.

Babka

4 servings

You will need
6 oz. cottage cheese
4 teaspoons flour
1 small egg
2 tablespoons milk
1 ⅔ tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon sugar
1 ½ tablespoons melted butter
1 ½ tablespoons chopped walnuts
little grated lemon rind
1 ½ tablespoons butter for plate

Fruit sauce:
3 oz. canned apricots
½ cup canned apricot syrup
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon cornstarch

Sieve the cottage cheese. Sift the flour; separate egg and beat the white until stiff.

Add the remaining ingredients and the egg yolk to above.

Add the egg white and grated lemon rind.

Grease 4 custard cups with butter. Pour the above mixture in and steam over low heat 25 minutes, leave the lid slightly ajar.

When cool, unmold. Pour the fruit sauce over.

Fruit sauce: combine the canned apricots and its juice. Pour into a pot, add sugar and cornstarch. Heat, stirring until thickened.

©Shufunotomo Co., Ltd., Japan 1971