Recipe: George Fassett's Fake Jerky Strips

George Fassett's Fake Jerky Strips
rec.food.recipes/Fred Towner (1998)
Yield: 12 pieces

MEAT
1 lb Ground beef
1 tsp Garlic powder
1 tsp Salt
1/4 tsp Black Pepper
1 tsp Liquid smoke
1 Tbsp A-1 Sauce
1/2 cup Quick Quaker Oats
1 Eggwhite

SAUCE
2 Tbsp A-1 Sauce
2 Tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
3 Tbsp Ketchup
2 Tbsp Vegetable Oil
1 tsp Soy Sauce
1 tsp Liquid Smoke
2 Tbsp Water

Mix ground beef with all other ingredients, stir until mixed. Put into a food processor with chopping knife and chop for a good minute, until well-mixed together and consistency of putty.

On a floured cutting board, take ball of meat mixture and coat both sides lightly with flour so it won't stick and roll out with floured rolling pin, fold and roll until roughly 8" by 12" rectangle 1/8" or less thick. Using a pizza cutter, cut into 1" wide strips 8" long and carefully transfer to a wire rack.

Heat oven to 300F, place wire rack with meat in oven on oven rack in center of oven, with second oven rack one notch below. On lower rack, place cookie sheet under meat to act as a drip pan.

Bake for 1 hour at 300F.

Mix together sauce ingredients in shallow dish. Remove rack of meat, roll each strip into sauce mix and return to rack. When all coated, return to oven and increase temp. to 450x. Bake for 15 min.

Remove rack again and recoat strips and return to oven for another 15 min. or until strips become almost burnt around edges.

Remove from oven and coat one last time, then let sit and cool to room temperature.