This section is from the book "The Just-Wed Cook Book", by E. F. Kiessling. Also available from Amazon: The Just-Wed Cook Book.
Take cold pieces of beef that have been left over and chop them fine; then add cold boiled potatoes chopped fine; add pepper and salt and a little warm water; put all in a frying-pan and cook slowly for about twenty minutes.
Take a piece of meat, cross-rib is best, put a slice of bacon or some lard in the bottom of pot, then the meat, and fill up with water till the meat is covered; then take two onions, some pepper-corns, cloves, bay leaves, one carrot and a crust of brown bread, salt and some vinegar; pepper, sprinkle flour over top and boil slowly.
About twenty cents worth of ox-tail for three people. Have them disjointed in pieces about an inch long. Take one large onion and brown in butter, one carrot, one turnip, one small piece of garlic, enough water to cover and cook slowly for four hours.
Take one head of cabbage, and after removing all soiled and bruised leaves, cut in sections lengthwise making about eight or nine pieces, leaving the piece of heart attached to each piece to hold it together. Place in the kettle on top of beef, which has been boiling some time; boil together for one hour. Salt to taste and pepper. Lift out the meat, let the cabbage boil a few moments longer in the beef broth and send it to the table.
Take three pounds of steak from the round and grind it through a chopper. Beat two eggs, pepper and salt, one and one-half of fresh, soft bread crumbs. Press this into a shallow, oblong, tin loaf - shaped pan and cover with about eight slices of salt pork, cut thin. Add one-half cupful of water to the pan, bake an hour, basting often, then put in on a warm platter, removing pieces of pork. Thicken the gravy in the pan with a little Gold Medal Flour, and one-half canful of stewed mushrooms; pour over and around the meat and serve hot. It is good when cold if cut in slices and served with lettuce salad.
When you have used the best of a cold roast of beef take the small pieces, or as much as will half fill a granite baking pan; also any gravy, a lump of butter, a bit of sliced onion, pepper and salt, and enough water to make plenty of gravy; put over a fire, thicken by dredging in a tablespoonful of Gold Medal Flour; cover it up where it may stew gently. Now boil a sufficient quantity of potatoes to fill up your baking dish, mash smooth and beat light with milk and butter and lace in a thick layer on top of meat. Brush it over with egg, place the dish in an over and let remain long enough to become brown. There should be a goodly quantity of gravy left with the beef, that the dish be not dry and tasteless.
Take a good rump steak, flatten and lay upon it a seasoning made of bread crumbs, parsley, pepper and salt, mixed with butter beaten to a cream. Roll up the steak, bind it evenly, and lay it in a dish with a cup of boiling water. Cover with another dish and bake forty minutes, baste often.
 
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