Salisbury Steak

Name: Salisbury Steak
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1/2 cup, milk; 7 tablespoons, instant potato flakes; 1 pound, 90-percent lean ground beef; , Salt and pepper; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 1 , onion, halved and sliced thin; 1 pound, white mushrooms, sliced thin; 1 tablespoon, tomato paste; 2 tablespoons, all-purpose flour; 1 3/4 cups, low-sodium beef broth; 1/4 cup, ruby port (see note)

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2007

Main Courses

Beef

Two unlikely ingredients-one from the pantry, the other from the liquor cabinet-rescue this recipe from the supermarket freezer section.

SERVES4

TIME1 hour, plus 30 minutes chilling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

It's hard to imagine that chopped steak could be considered health food, but that's what Dr. James Henry Salisbury had in mind when he invented the dish of “Salisbury Steak" as a "meat cure" for wounded and ill Civil War sold...

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