This section is from the book "Cookery From Experience", by Sara T. Paul. Also available from Amazon: Cookery From Experience.
Shave the beef as thin as paper; melt in a frying-pan a piece of butter the size of a large egg; when hot, stir in the beef, and toss it about for a minute; have ready a teacup of cream or rich milk, with the yolk of an egg beaten in it and a saltspoonful of mixed mustard; dust the beef with flour, stir it about, then pour in the cream, shake it through the meat boil up and serve.
Chip the beef as thin as paper with a very sharp knife. Melf in a frying-pan butter the size of an egg, stir the beef about in it for two or three minutes, dust in a little flour, add half a teacup of rich cream, give a boil up, and serve in a covered dish.
Chip the beef as above, melt in a frying-pan butter the size of an egg, stir in the beef, toss it about over a hot fire, add two tablespoonsful of hot water, boil up and serve. Cook the beef rather longer in this recipe than in the former one, with cream.
 
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