The Saturday Sip: June 29, 2024
Here's your etiquette tip, quote and an Emily Post Cookbook recipe to start your weekend off right!
The Tip
Play the role of host and guest equally in your friendships. If you find yourself always someone’s guest, make an effort to invite your friend and do some hosting, even if it’s just initiating an afternoon walk.
The Recipe
There's nothing like a burger on a summer night.
Emily Post’s Cookbook, 1951, pg. 87 *Please note that recipes are copied as exactly as possible, including grammatical errors and inconsistencies.
Hamburger with Celery
TIME: 25 minutes
SERVES: 4
Ingredients
1 egg
1/4 c milk
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 medium onion, chopped
1/3 cup bread crumbs (dehydrated prepared bread stuffing for a chicken is good in place of plain bread crumbs)
1 cup celery
1 lb. chopped top round of beef
1 tbs. meat jelly or concentrated meat stock
2 tbs. butter
Directions
Add salt, pepper, and milk to beaten egg and stir. Then add onion, breadcrumbs, celery, and meat. As celery will not be cooked in the time it takes to cook the hamburgers, it must be chopped very fine or even grated. Do not parboil it as it is the little bits of half-raw celery that give this hamburger its unusual flavor. Mix all lightly with fingers and form into 4 flat balls. Grease a pan with butter and leave a few pieces of the butter to help in making a sauce. Place the 4 balls in the pan and put 1/4 tbs. of meat jelly and a small piece of butter on top of each. Broil under an electric broiler or under a medium gas flame for 5 minutes. Turn hamburgers over, add any butter remaining, and broil 3 1/2 to 4 minutes more.
Serve with the juice in the pan as gravy, mashed potatoes, and peas. If the celery is left out, double the bread crumbs and onion and add 1/2 tsp. celery seed.
The Quote
“Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.” - Emily Post
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Cheers!
Lizzie and Dan
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