Amish Poor Man's Steak

Ingredients

• 14.5 ounce cream of mushroom soup canned
• 1 pound ground beef 
• 1 teaspoon ground pepper black
• 1 cup milk 
• 1  onion finely chopped
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 1 cup saltines crushed

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• baking sheet
• oven
• roasting pan
• kitchen thermometer

Directions

1. Mix ground beef, milk, saltine cracker crumbs, onion, salt, and black pepper in a bowl. Shape mixture into a narrow loaf and place onto a baking sheet; cover and refrigerate 8 hours to overnight.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
3. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat.
4. Cut loaf into 1-inch-thick slices and sear the 'steaks' in the hot skillet until browned, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Insides will still be pink. Arrange slices in a roasting pan.
5. Spread mushroom soup over steaks.
6. Bake steaks in the preheated oven until mushroom soup is bubbling and meat is no longer pink inside, about 1 hour. An instant-read meat thermometer inserted into the center of a meat slice should read at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).