This section is from the book "Mrs. Rorer's Diet For The Sick", by Sarah Tyson Rorer. Also available from Amazon: Mrs. Rorer's Diet For The Sick.
Put a half pound of the round of beef twice through the meat chopper; add a half teaspoonful of salt and form it into a round cake, making it of equal thickness throughout - that is, have the sides as thick as the center. Put this into a perfectly dry, hot iron pan; turn it with a cake turner several times, cooking it at least ten minutes. Dish it on a heated plate, squeeze over a little lemon juice and serve at once. If, for any reason, the meat is needed very well done, make the half pound into two cakes. The stringy portion, about one-half the weight of the meat, should be held in the chopper. A little butter over the cooked steaks is frequently admissible. The salt should be added to the meat, use no pepper.
 
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