1 pound of beef.
1 clove of garlic, minced.
1 teaspoonful of minced onion.
1⁄2 teaspoonful of black pepper.
Same of salt.
Chop the beef like sausage meat, with one-fourth fat to three-fourths lean. Add the seasonings. Make it up in balls, flatten out to thin cakes, dust with flour on both sides and fry in a frying pan with a little drippings.
Whitehead’s Family Cook Book, 1891