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This Salisbury steak with mushroom gravy recipe features seasoned beef patties and an easy homemade sauce for a classic, comforting dish.
~Simple Salisbury Steak Recipe~
Recipe by: 'Savor the Flavor'
~Old Fashioned Salisbury Steak~
Recipe by: 'Quiche my Grits'
You probably know Salisbury Steak as the rubbery, gravy-covered puck found in a frozen TV dinner, but its origins are far stranger than you could ever imagine.
Salisbury Steaks
Dr. James Salisbury, 1860s Civil War physician.
Union soldiers were dying. Not from bullets. From dysentery, scurvy, and typhoid.
The military diet: Hardtack, beans, coffee. Minimal meat due to cost.
Salisbury observed: Soldiers with access to beef recovered faster from everything. Wounds healed quicker. Infections cleared. Energy returned.
He started prescribing pure beef. Three times daily. Nothing else.
The results were so dramatic that officers started requisitioning beef specifically for sick soldiers.
Salisbury published his findings in 1888: "The Relation of Alimentation and Disease."
His conclusion: Most chronic diseases stem from improper fermentation in the digestive system caused by eating starches and vegetables.
His prescription: Minced beef, three times daily, with hot water. For weeks or months depending on severity.
He documented successful treatment of:
- Tuberculosis
- Rheumatism
- Mental disorders
- Digestive diseases
- Obesity
- Gout
His work was hugely influential. Salisbury steak was named after him. Originally it wasn't a convenience food. It was medicine.
By 1920s: Pharmaceutical companies developing antibiotics and drugs for the same conditions.
By 1950s: Salisbury's work is ignored, mocked, or forgotten.
Today: "Salisbury steak" is a processed meat patty with gravy served in school cafeterias. The medical application has been completely erased from history.
A physician who cured chronic diseases with beef was memory-holed because his cure couldn't be patented.
The pharmaceutical industry didn't just compete with his methods. They erased them from medical history entirely.
I need to remember to post more on here. Since moving to a new country and now being married SO much has changed; especially when it comes to my mental health. I am SO much happier. 🥹
In my marriage, I'm more so the cook than my husband (but I had experience cooking on my own when I lived on my own). I'm still very much learning how to cook things (and bake), but learning to cook WITH my husband has been SUCH a treat. ❤️
Every now and then he'll make me food and it makes me feel so loved. Honestly he does make certain things better than me; like the veggies he makes them taste so good!!
I look forward to the day when we have more freedom to do so living on our own. God has been so so so good to us! 🥹❤️