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[Mosca]

Anyone want to make a fricando of beef? From The Virginia Housewife, 1860.

A FRICANDO OF BEEF.

Cut a few slices of beef six inches long, two or three wide, and one thick, lard them with bacon, dredge them well, and make them a nice brown before a brisk fire; stew them half an hour in a well seasoned gravy, put some stewed sorrel or spinage in the dish, lay on the beef, and pour over a sufficient quantity of gravy; garnish with fried balls.

Honestly, I got no idea. I mean, I could figure it out, but not from what is actually on the page.

[Mosca]

Stewed, so chuck roast? Browned, sure. Braise them; got it. Spinage = spinach. Fried balls… hush puppies, maybe?

But I brought all that with me. Someone else might choose strip steak, cook it well done, braise it, and top it with Rocky Mountain oysters.