It is a mistake to cook theflank with the sirloin.
The flank steak is a choice piece of lean, boneless meat that lies close to the ribs and weighs from one and three-quarters to two and one-half pounds.
Remove the flank end and then the tenderloin, also taking out the bones.
CHILI OF BEEF Cut one pound of flank steak in one-inch blocks and then roll in flour and brown quickly in hot fat.
Have the butcher remove the chine bone and then the flank end.
Let him add a piece of suet to the flank end; then put it through the food chopper for hamburg steak.
This made my left flank more secure, and enabled Maclagan to withdraw the defensive flank which he had deployed along the river from Cerisy to Morcourt.
The Australian Corps became the south flank of that Army.
Having returned to his Company, he personally placed a post on his left flank to ensure its safety, and then reconnoitred and established two posts on his right flank.
As regards the action of the flank Corps, General Rawlinson held the view that a direct assault on the canal itself ought to be attempted, and that this should be entrusted to the Ninth Corps.
I had also had some experience of the futility of relying too much upon the sympathetic action of flank Corps, who usually had their hands full enough with their own problems, and had little time to devote to the needs of their neighbours.
The left Battalion had assigned to it as an immediate objective the ruins of the village of Feuillaucourt, from which it was hoped that a flank attack upon the Mount could be developed.
Thus the advance on this day of the 6th Brigade materially assisted the attack on Peronne by the 14th Brigade, while the progress of the latter removed much trouble from the southern flank of the 6th Brigade.
Borella refused his left flank about 40 yards during the first counter-attack he sent his men back one at a time, and was himself the last to leave, under heavy fire.
The right flank of our Third Army, therefore, lay exposed to the danger of being turned, if the enemy should succeed in pressing his advantage as far west as Corbie, and in crossing the river at or west of that town.
The north flank of the French was hourly retiring in a south-westerly direction, and the ever widening gap was filled only by a scratch force of odd units supported and assisted by a few elements of the First Cavalry Division.
The Canadians were to operate on my right, and further south again the First French Army (Debenay) was to supply a Corps to form a defensiveflank for the Canadians.
The first step in this plan was to ensure effective tactical contact between the right flank of the Third Division and the left flank of the Fifth Division.
Later, it was noticed that the Company on his left was held up in the wire by a very strong force on the left flank of the Battalion.
The infantry were divided into two bodies, but in making a flank march, they formed into three, by passing through the files.
The flank becoming thus unprotected, Captain Estill directed Cook with three men to occupy Miller's station, and repel the attack in that quarter to which this base act of cowardice exposed the whole party.
Mason marched almost to the creek without finding any Indians, and was about to return, when he was furiously assailed in front, flank and rear by the whole of Girty's army.
Another wild pig scampered across the path, and once, to the astonishment and dismay of the party, they suddenly sighted the flank of an enormous animal, apparently almost asleep beneath the shade cast by the trees.
The troopers, riding almost level with him now, obeyed the order instantly, and catching the Mahrattas on the flank hurled them to the ground like ninepins.
In their rear ran a rivulet, with steep and awkward banks, while their right flank lay in front of the village.
Perfectly disciplined and composed of gallant fellows, the fine regiment wheeled round to the other flank and reformed the sections into line.
He formed his troopers up on the left flank of the regiment and rode in front of them, a horse's length in rear of the commander of the gallant 29th, who was now of junior rank, for Major Griffiths had fallen five minutes before.
Phorenice also seemed of this opinion, for (as she herself told me later) at the moment that Tob's galley was reported as having its flank against the marble of the royal quay, at that precise moment did she start out from the palace.
And on the night which follows, you are to go round to that flank of the Sacred Mountain away from the city where the rocks run down sheer, and there they will lower a rope and haul you up to their hands above.
They came up alongside, two females (the smaller) on the flank of the ship, the giant male by himself on the other.
And presently they vanished entirely, and the great mountain's flank lay before me trackless, and untrodden by the foot of man since time began.
The flank of the Prussian position was turned; the French army passed entirely around them, and Napoleon seized and blew up the magazines at Naumburg.
Prussians, for Bulow was still pressing upon the flank and rear.
Lannes, who was to flank Ney, abruptly seized Napoleon's horse to lead him out of the galling fire.
The allies crossed the Elster suddenly, under the cover of a thick morning fog, and attacked the left flank of the French, who had been advancing in column, and who thus commenced the action under heavy disadvantages.
They were met by a storm of cannonade which broke their centre, and on either flank the French were all but routed.
Augereau's division occupied the bridge of Arcola which was swept by the enemy's cannon and assailed in flank by their battalions.
The Emperor hoped in this manner to throw himself on the flank of Blucher's march, as he had done before at Champaubert; but the Prussian received intelligence of his approach and drawing his troops together, retired to Soissons.
At daybreak on the 1st of December the French began their attempts to turn the flank of San Juan, who imagined himself invincible in his position.
The morning after the victory of Montenotte Bonaparte dispatched Augereau to attack Millessimo; Massena to fall on Dego, and La Harpe to turn the flank of Beaulieu.
The rowel was in hisflank again, and the scourge at his back.
Owing to the great speed with which the mountaineers move about the hills, most of them were able to escape before the flankattack could cut them off.
It was loopholed for musketry, but had no flank defences.
Besides this the cross fire from their right flankadded to their difficulties.
The 24th Punjaub Infantry protected their flank as they reached the camp.
From this position they established touch with the flank attack, and the whole force pursued the flying tribesmen with long-range fire.
As this regiment was being withdrawn, a sudden attack was made from the high ground above the Buddhist road, and directed against the left flank of the troops.
Punjaub Infantry and the 45th Sikhs, were to ascend the hills to the right, and deliver a flank attack on the head of the ridge.
Had these tribesmen been able to debouch from this valley, they would have fallen on the flank of the brigade, and the situation would have become one of danger.
The left flank of the company was then turned, and the pressure became so severe that they were withdrawn to a more interior line of defence, and took up a position along the edge of the "Sappers' and Miners' enclosure.
For six hours the picket there held out against all assaults, but the absence of flank defences enabled the enemy to come close up to the walls.
The firing now became heavy and the half-company, finding its flank threatened, fell back to the next position.
They accordingly began streaming along the ridge towards the left, at first with an idea of meeting the flank attack, but afterwards, as the shell fire grew hotter, and the musketry increased, only in the hope of retreat.
During the movement Gregg's cavalry division covered the rear and flank next to the enemy.
The attack of this small regiment on the flank of the rebels was so sudden that the latter were glad to escape with their guns.
Gregg, seeing the situation, recalled Custer, who had previously received orders to move over to the left flank of our army near Round Top.
My squadron rode along the flank of this charging column of the enemy, and expended nearly all of its carbine ammunition upon it.
After this engagement we were kept busy scouting in all directions upon the rear andflank of our army, constantly watching along the slopes of the Blue Ridge and Bull Run Mountains.
No windows, of course, nor any other opening than the door; for the building is half-buried in the flank of the mountain.
With the stones now mingle angular rocks; and we sometimes have to flank queer black bulks that look like basalt.
Still the mountain seems far away; but we are really running up its flank at a height of more than five thousand feet.
As he did so, he exposed his flank to the young hunters, who could not have been given a better opportunity to bring him down, for the throwing forward of the foreleg, opened his most vulnerable part to the bullet.
But he continued to rake the rocks and cactus clumps with frequent shots, while the Navahos in the ditch followed along the flank of their half-exposed enemies.
As soon as the fog of early morning had passed away, they could be seen approaching in two columns, while a party of skirmishers, sent out by Gibbs, were ordered to turn the leftflank of the Americans and attack their rear.
In the meantime, Gibbs and Rennie were endeavoring to flank the American left, driving in the pickets till they were within a hundred yards of Carroll and his Tennesseeans.
He slapped his linen clad flank gleefully, and his round old face, which had been knotted with resolution, broke up into a wrinkly, ample smile; he spun on his heel and hurried back into the house and to the telephone in the hall.
Above the place of the meeting rose the flank of the mountain, scarred with washes and scantily clothed with stunted trees, so that in patches the soil showed through like the hide of a mangy hound.
And he slapped the lines down on the mare's flank and jogged off through the dust.
He knew that cunning men would seek toflank and surprise them, and he noticed that the sergeant also watched in a wide circle.
On the other flank another Northern force which also had crossed the creek attacked with fire and spirit.
In ten minutes they would be there, but rifles suddenly blazed from the forest on their flank and many saddles were emptied.
Sheltered in the underbrush, they might have made a good defense there, but a sudden tremendous cheer arose, and they were charged in the flank by the Ohio regiment, coming up on the run.
Then the fifty rifles cracked together and the Southern flankwas swept by fifty well-aimed bullets.
This attack deep into the flank of the Confederacy appealed to them with its boldness, and created a certain romantic glow that seemed to clothe the efforts of a general so far from the great line of battle in the East.
Off on the flank the ominous tread of Southern horsemen was coming fast.
The troopers in gray were unable to flank them or drive them back.
Colonel Hertford sprang into the saddle and formed his cavalry on the flank as a screen against the dreaded sweep of Forrest.
Shrapnel, grape and canister whistled incessantly over their heads, and on either flank the thunder of the battle swelled rapidly.
Dick saw besides the Confederate column many irregulars in the woods, skilled sharpshooters, who began to sting them on the flank and bring down many a good soldier.
We're on the extreme left flank here, and maybe they're trying to overlap us.
Whitley's flank movement had proved wholly successful, and Colonel Winchester reinforced him in the little forest peninsula with fifty more picked men, where they lay well hidden, a formidable force for any assailant.
He was aware that his enemy might try a circling movement in order to reach him on the flank or from behind, but he believed that his ear would be keen enough to detect him if he came near.
The Manchus could not permit this, as such a realm would have threatened the flank of their homeland, Manchuria, and would have attracted those Manchus who objected to sinification.
Although this conquest represented a peril to the eastern flankof the Hsiung-nu, it did not by any means mean that they were conquered.
In addition to this, the realm of the Toba was dangerously gaining strength on the flank of the new empire.
But with that promptitude which was characteristic of all his operations, Lee anticipated this movement and struck at Grant's flank early on the morning of the fifth.
On the twenty-seventh of July Sherman again moved by his right flank in the attempt to cut the railroad lines south of Atlanta.
Continuing his southward movements by the right flank Sherman at last succeeded in placing his army south of Atlanta, where a deal of hard fighting occurred.
He crushed Hood's entrenched left flank and forced him back to a new line of entrenchments in the rear.
It was Jackson's purpose to march westward on a route parallel with Hooker's line, turn its western end and strike it in flank and rear.
It might be that he intended to move northward, take Buell in flank and rear, destroy his communications, cut him off from assistance or retreat, and perhaps compel his surrender.
Hill, with the remainder of the Confederate army was posted at Port Royal, twenty miles further down the river, eastward, to meet and repel any attempt that might be made to cross there and turn the flank of Lee's position.
He himself with the Companion cavalry marched along rapidly against the left wing of the barbarians, being eager to attack them in flank while still in a state of disorder, before their cavalry could be deployed.
We have spoken frankly about it (rather than affect an impassive indifference) simply because we think our readers would like us to do so.
And ever on itsflank hung the lean but resolute army of the Continentals, waiting and longing for a chance to strike.
John saw that the river would form an excellent defence to the left flank of his little force, and running back to Ferrier, he asked him to edge nearer to it.
John took aim at the nearest of the herd, which presented itsflank to him.
The animal immediately turned to pursue him, for the first time presenting his flank to John.
The lion swerved after him, presenting his flank to the anxious spectators.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flank" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
