Old-fashioned Salisbury Steak With Gravy

While you may in charity assume that a Christian brother acts from pure motives, you dare not assume that your own heart is upright. You must be more charitable to others than you are to yourself. You have no access to a fellow Christian’s heart. No ability to test his inward devotion to the Lord, which is the all-important matter in using things indifferent. But you can scrutinize your own heart. You can examine your inner man to detect your own motives and aims for every act.

Walter Chantry

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Eggs, Dairy		Ground meat, Main dishes, Sauces/grav	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Lean ground beef
1/3	c	Onion, minced
1/4	c	Saltine cracker crumbs
1		Egg white, slightly beaten
2	T	Milk
1/2	T	Horseradish
1/4	t	Salt
1/8	t	Pepper
1		Jar, 12-oz prepared brown
		beef gravy
4	oz	Mushrooms, cut in 1/4"
		slices
2	T	Water

INSTRUCTIONS

In a medium bowl, combine ground beef with onion, cracker crumbs, egg
white, milk, horseradish, salt and pepper. Shape into four 1/2" thick
oval patties.  Heat a large non-stick skillet at med until hot.  Place
patties in skillet; cook 7 - 8 min or until no longer pink and  juices
run clear, turning once.  Remove from skillet; keep warm.    Add gravy
ingredients to same skillet.  Cook over medium heat 3 - 4  min or until
mushrooms are tender. Recipe By     : Best Recipes 4/94  Posted to
FOODWINE Digest 19 November 96  Date:    Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:34:47
-0600  From:    Ellen Court <CourtMoss@NOVA-NET.NET>

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 320 Calories From Fat: 219 Total Fat: 23.7g Cholesterol: 85.7mg Sodium: 249.1mg Potassium: 435.5mg Carbohydrates: 2.9g Fiber: <1g Sugar: 1.7g Protein: 22.3g

Jesus Christ demands self-denial, that is, self-negation (Matt. 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23), as a necessary condition of discipleship. Self-denial is a summons to submit to the authority of God as Father and of Jesus as Lord and to declare lifelong war on one's instinctive egoism. What is to be negated is not personal self or one's existence as a rational and responsible human being. Jesus does not plan to turn us into zombies, nor does he ask us to volunteer for a robot role. The required denial is of carnal self, the egocentric, self-deifying urge with which we were born and which dominates us so ruinously in our natural state. Jesus links self-denial with cross-bearing. Cross-bearing is far more than enduring this or that hardship. Carrying one's cross in Jesus' day, as we learn from the story of Jesus' own crucifixion, was required of those whom society had condemned, whose rights were forfeit, and who were now being led out to their execution. The cross they carried was the instrument of death. Jesus represents discipleship as a matter of following him, and following him as based on taking up one's cross in self-negation. Carnal self would never consent to cast us in such a role. "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die," wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was right: Accepting death to everything that carnal self wants to possess is what Christ's summons to self-denial was all about.

J.I. Packer