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MARTHA'S PLUM CASSEROLE
Simple beef casserole with plum and tomato

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This is a delicious sweet beef casserole. The contributor got it from a radio talk-back show a few years earlier; it was a listener's old favourite.

Yield

Serves 4.

Ingredients

* 3 lbs cubed beef, 1.5 kg
* 3/4 cup plum jam, 150 ml
* 1 cup tomato sauce, 250 ml
* 1 cup Worcestershire sauce, 250 ml
* Flour, as needed to coat the beef

Method

1. Roll the beef cubes in flour.

2. Place the floured beef in an ungreased casserole dish.

3. Mix together the plum jam, tomato sauce, and Worcestershire sauce.

4. Pour the sauce mixture over the beef, coating it well.

5. Bake at 250 degrees F, 120 degrees C, for 1 hour.

6. Serve hot.

Notes

This is a very simple sweet-and-savory beef casserole built around plum jam, tomato sauce, and Worcestershire sauce.

The beef is not browned before baking. It is simply coated in flour and placed directly into the casserole dish.

The casserole dish is left ungreased.

Verified Recipe Note: The original ingredient markup uses rCL(34rCY for 3/4. This has been converted here for readability.

Verified Recipe Note: The recipe calls for flour to coat the beef, but the source does not specify an amount.

Verified Recipe Note: The source gives the oven temperature as 250 degrees F and 120 degrees C. These have been preserved as written.

Verified Recipe Note: The original recipe uses the term rCLtomato saucerCY without further explanation, so it has been preserved exactly rather than substituted with another tomato product.

Rating

* Difficulty: Easy
* Time: 5 minutes preparation, 1 hour baking
* Precision: No need to measure

Contributor

Michael Gigante
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Melbourne Vic., Australia
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Origin Note

This recipe comes from the USENET Cookbook project, a moderated electronic recipe collection distributed through early Internet newsgroups. The original was written in the project's structured recipe markup, where PLUM-CASSEROLE was the recipe key and M marked it as a main dish.

The preserved entry lists the recipe as last modified on 27 May 1986 and posted to mod.recipes on 6 Jun 1986. It was contributed by Michael Gigante of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.

The dish is a simple baked beef casserole in which flour-coated beef cubes cook beneath a sweet, tangy sauce made from plum jam, tomato sauce, and Worcestershire sauce.

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On 9/19/2026 11:53 AM, MummyChunk wrote:

MARTHA'S PLUM CASSEROLE
Simple beef casserole with plum and tomato

----------------------------------------

This is a delicious sweet beef casserole. The contributor got it from
a radio talk-back show a few years earlier; it was a listener's old
favourite.

Yield

Serves 4.

Ingredients

* 3 lbs cubed beef, 1.5 kg
* 3/4 cup plum jam, 150 ml
* 1 cup tomato sauce, 250 ml
* 1 cup Worcestershire sauce, 250 ml
* Flour, as needed to coat the beef
That looks fucking disgusting. What the fuck is wrong with you, posting garbage like that? I really wish that you would die before you get the

chance to ever post here again.
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On 9/19/2026 1:30 PM, Bryan Simmons wrote:

On 9/19/2026 11:53 AM, MummyChunk wrote:

MARTHA'S PLUM CASSEROLE
Simple beef casserole with plum and tomato

That looks fucking disgusting. What the fuck is wrong with you, posting

garbage like that? I really wish that you would die before you get the chance to ever post here again.

Thank you for your important contribution to the thread. Death wishes
are a nice classy touch too
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On Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:49:23 -0400, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:

On 9/19/2026 1:30 PM, Bryan Simmons wrote:

On 9/19/2026 11:53 AM, MummyChunk wrote:

MARTHA'S PLUM CASSEROLE
Simple beef casserole with plum and tomato

That looks fucking disgusting. What the fuck is wrong with you, posting

garbage like that? I really wish that you would die before you get the
chance to ever post here again.

Thank you for your important contribution to the thread. Death wishes
are a nice classy touch too

He always wants people he disagrees with to die. Typical redneck.
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Bryan Simmons wrote:
On 9/19/2026 11:53 AM, MummyChunk wrote:

MARTHA'S PLUM CASSEROLE
Simple beef casserole with plum and tomato

----------------------------------------


This is a delicious sweet beef casserole. The contributor got it from
a radio talk-back show a few years earlier; it was a listener's old
favourite.



Yield

Serves 4.

Ingredients

* 3 lbs cubed beef, 1.5 kg
* 3/4 cup plum jam, 150 ml
* 1 cup tomato sauce, 250 ml
* 1 cup Worcestershire sauce, 250 ml
* Flour, as needed to coat the beef
That looks f***ing disgusting. What the f**k is wrong with you, posting

garbage like that? I really wish that you would die before you get the
chance to ever post here again.

--
--Bryan

For your safety and protection, this sig. has been thoroughly
tested on laboratory animals.

"Most of the food described here is nauseating.
We're just too courteous to say so."
-- Cindy Hamilton

"You know how I describe the economic and social classes in this
country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes.
The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor
are there just to scare the sh*t out of the middle class."
-- George Carlin

Maybe you should save that for Martha or Michael Gigante

EfyL
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MummyChunk wrote on 9/19/2026 2:16 PM:

Bryan Simmons wrote:
On 9/19/2026 11:53 AM, MummyChunk wrote:

MARTHA'S PLUM CASSEROLE
Simple beef casserole with plum and tomato

----------------------------------------


This is a delicious sweet beef casserole. The contributor got it from
a radio talk-back show a few years earlier; it was a listener's old
favourite.



Yield

Serves 4.

Ingredients

* 3 lbs cubed beef, 1.5 kg
* 3/4 cup plum jam, 150 ml
* 1 cup tomato sauce, 250 ml
* 1 cup Worcestershire sauce, 250 ml
* Flour, as needed to coat the beef
That looks f***ing disgusting. What the f**k is wrong with you, posting

garbage like that? I really wish that you would die before you get the
chance to ever post here again.

--
--Bryan

For your safety and protection, this sig. has been thoroughly
tested on laboratory animals.

"Most of the food described here is nauseating.
We're just too courteous to say so."
-- Cindy Hamilton

"You know how I describe the economic and social classes in this
country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes.
The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor
are there just to scare the sh*t out of the middle class."
-- George Carlin

Maybe you should save that for Martha or Michael Gigante

EfyL

Recipe looks OK to me, except it needs more worcestershire. I think a
quart would be about right.

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