Cold Potatoes And Beef

Slice the beef and the potatoes; put an onion to a good gravy, either from the joint, or stewed from the bones; let the potatoes and beef simmer in the gravy. Add vinegar, pepper, and salt. Thicken the gravy, and serve hot, with slices of toasted bread.

Cold Beef, Mutton Or Veal, Recooked

Take a pound or more of cold meat and chop it very fine; add a small piece of butter, with salt and pepper; mix all well together. Boil six fresh eggs twenty minutes; lay them in cold water, and take off the shells; mash the yolks very fine and add them to the meat. Make it into small cakes, roll them in flour or fine bread crumbs, and fry them in butter or good lard.

Turnovers Of Cold Meat

Cut any kind of cold meat into small pieces, and season well with pepper and salt, and add a little finely-chopped onion if liked. Take some cold potatoes, grate them, beat an egg and put to them, and dust in as much flour as will form a dough. Roll this out about the ordinary thickness for pies, put on a portion of this paste some of the seasoned meat, fold the edges of the paste and pinch them together so as to hold the meat, and fry them on both sides a fine brown.

"Toad In The Hole" From Cold Meat

Take some rather thick slices of cold under-done beef, seasoning with salt and pepper. Make a batter by beating the whites and yolks separately of four eggs. To a pint of milk add the yolks of the eggs, and enough flour to make a batter. Lastly put in a little salt, and stir in gradually the whites of the eggs. Pour the batter into a deep baking dish, and lay the meat on the top. Set it in the oven and bake it a nice brown.

Beef Baked In Forms

Mince very fine equal quantities of cold roast beef and tongue. Season well with popper and salt, and add the whole or a part of a well-beaten egg, according to the quantity of meat. Mix it well, and butter a mould; put in the meat and press it down very hard, to acquire the shape of the mould: then turn it out on a baking tin, and wash it over with some well-beaten egg. Set it in the oven to brown.

A Fricassiee From Fragments Of Cold Beef

Cut the meat into thin slices, and free them from fat; take some cold gravy and thicken it with butter rolled in flour; and for seasoning use young onions, pepper, and salt. Put it in a stew-pan, and as soon as it begins to boil it may be served. If something a little better is required, add a glass of port wine, the yolk of an egg beaten, and the juice of a lemon. Stir the fricassee, but do not allow it to boil.

A Nice Breakfast, Luncheon, Or Supper Relish From Potted Cold Beef

Having a joint of dressed beef which cannot be consumed, proceed in the following manner. Drain the meat from the gravy, cut it in pieces, and chop it fine. Season with pepper, salt, and spices to the taste. Put it into small cans, press down, and cover with plenty of melted butter.

Pie Made Of Cold Roast Beef

Cut about half a pound of cold under-done beef into small pieces; add pepper and salt to the taste. Line a deep pie dish with paste; put in a layer of meat. Over this strew some finely-minced onion, dredge flour over it, then add another layer of meat, onion, and flour, till the pie is full. Pour in a little water, and on the top layer lay some lumps of butter. Cover the top with paste, leaving a hole in the centre. Bake it, and serve with oyster sauce; or, in place of the onions, layers of oysters may be substituted.

Cold Beef Hashed With Vinegar

Take some cold roast beef, beefsteak, or the meat from a shin which has been boiled for soup; cut it in pieces about half an inch square; season with Cayenne pepper and salt to the taste. Take as much vinegar as would cover the meat; boil in it a few grains of whole allspice and a couple of cloves; pour it over the meat while boiling hot, and stand it away to get cold. This is a nice dish for supper or luncheon.

Beef Cakes

Take some cold beef - that which is under-done is the best - mince it very fine, and grate a little uncooked ham into it, enough to flavor it. Season it with pepper and salt. Mix the whole together and make it out into small cakes, flour them, and fry them a nice brown on both sides.