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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Beef Patties (another way)'.— Take thick slices of bioad, a week old if it can be obtained, and make them of the desired form and size with a tin cutter. Scoojd out the middle to receive the mince, prepared as in the preceding recipe. Dip each piece of bread into cream, and when drained brush them with white of egg, and dredge bread -crumbs, or bread- raspings, over them. Fry in good fresh butter, fill them with the miucc, made hot, and send to table on a napkin. Beef Patties, Meat for.— Mince half a pound of good, fresh suet ; put it to one pound of beef and one pound of veal, cut into small pieces, but not chopped. Season it with pepper, salt, allspice, and a very little mace — the allspice and mace should be pounded. Mix all together ; and when wanted for patties, cut wp a little l^arsley, and shred one blade of shalotBeef Patties, Meat for, very finely, to mix with it. Bake in ^Datty-pans, or buttered saucers for half an hour. They are also good cold, and may be warmed up at any time. Probable cost, 2s. 6d. Beef, Pickle for. — This pickle is in- tended for diy-salting. The ingredients must be well pounded and mixed together before the meat is rubbed with it, and the beef, or hams, turned and well I'ubbed every day until salt enough. One i:>ound of common salt, three ounces of saltpetre, four pounds of brown sugar, and one tea-spoonful of black pepperBeef, Pickle for, will be found to impart a good, rich flavour to the meat. Cost of ini;i-i'(lients, about Is. 2d. Beef, Pickle for (another way). — To two gallons of clear, spring water, take four pounds of salt, two pounds of sugar, and two ounces of saltpetreBeef, Pickle for (another way). Treacle may be used with sugar, l^art of each, if preferred. Boil all together until the scum has quite disappeared, and when cold throw it over the meat to be pickled. A piece of beef, weighing from fourteen to sixteen pounds, will take twelve, or even fourteen days, and a ham a fortnight or thi-ee weeks. Cost for two gallons, about 8d. Beef Pie, Raised. — Cover the sides of a raised pie-mould with butter, and put a lining of paste, made in the following manner, neetly into it: — Chop a quarter of a pound of suet, put it into a stewpan -with a quarter of a pound BEE (59) BEE of butter and a pint of water; when boiling, pass thom through a sieve into two pounds of iioui-, and stir it with a spoon until the heat has gone olf . Wlien the dough, or paste, is quite smooth, roll it out, and it is ready for the lining. Take two pounds of rump steak and cut them into small coUops ; season them with minced parsley, pepper, and salt ; dust them with flour, and lay them roTind . the mould ; fill it with alternate layers of potatoes, thinly sliced, and meat, ilake a lid for the moidd with some of the paste, brush it over with beaten egg, and bake about three hours and a half. Put an oi'namental centre to the cover, that it may be more easily raised to throw in some gravy as soon as it is baked. Probable cost, 3s. lOd.