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Onions, with Beef Steak, Etc

Take two large Spanish onions; remove a thin piece off each end, and peel off the outer skins; cut them into slices a quarter of an inch thick. Place an ounce of butter or good dripping in a saucepan, let it melt, then put with it a pound of steak, divided into pieces a little thinner than for broiling. Brown these in the butter, add a little pepper and salt, the sliced onions, three ounces more of butter, but no liquid; cover the saucepan closely, and simmer as gently as possible till done. Arrange the steak neatly in the centre of a hot dish, boil up the onion gravy sauce with a table-spoonful of walnut ketchup, pour it over the meat, and serve immediately. Chickens or rabbits are sometimes cooked in the same way. Time, about an hour and a half. Probable cost, 1s. 6d. Sufficient for two or three persons.