Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book

Mode. — Slice the onions and fry in a little butter, when quite cooked add a little flour and a couple of tablespoonfuls of ketchup, pepper and salt ; allow all to cook for about ten minutes. Cut the beef into small dice-shaped pieces, put these in the saucepan, and barley, cover with stock if you have it, if not, with water, or soup made from Liebig's Extract, and allow to simmer for one hour. 186— STEWED BEEF AND MUSHROOMS. Cold beef Pepper and salt 2 onions Small piece of ginger 1 tin mushrooms or 1 lb. fresh (if obtainable). Mode,— Prepare the onions as the other recipes, but Cut the meat in very thin slices and sprinkle it with flour, fry it with the onions, stew it with the liquor from the Beef Entrees. tinned mushrooms, if fresh add no water, but put tlie fresh ones in with the meat and onions, there will be sufficient liquor from them to stew the beef, add pepper and salt to taste. 187— STEWED BEEF AND WALNUTS. Cold beef 2 onions ' ' ½ bottle pickled walnuts Cloves and ginger ■ Stock. Mode. — The fatty end of a sirloin of beef is best for this dish. Stew the beef well for about two hours in stock, if any, if no stock, water or beef extract will do, with the cloves, onions and ginger, thicken it with a little flour, cut up the walnuts each into four pieces, and add about ten minutes before required. 188— MINCED BEEF. 1 lb. beef 1 onion Wineglass sauce Salt and pepper to taste 1 tablespoonful of butter. Mode. — Mince the beef and onions together, put into a saucepan with the butter, and about a wineglassful of sauce, pepper and salt to taste ; cook for quarter of an hour. Dish up with mashed potatoes. 189— DBY HASH. Remains cold corned beef 1 onion Cold boiled potatoes Sauce Pepper and salt. Mode. — Mince the beef, also the potatoes (these are much easier dealt with if put through the machine also), and onion, mix the meat and two-thirds of the potatoes and onion, add a little sauce, pepper, and put in a pie-dish. Mix all the remaining potatoes and onions with some butter and cover the dish with them, and bake about twenty minutes. Beef Entrees. 190-CUEEIED BEEF. ' Cold beef Butter Onions Cloves, etc. Apple Curry powder. Mode. — Slice the onions and fry in butter witb the apple (cut very small), cloves and a tablespoonful of chutney ; when the onions are cooked add the curry powder, and allow all to cook for about ten minutes ; cut the beef very small and put to this, cover with stock, extract of beef, or water, allow to stew gently for about an hour , never add flour to curry. Serve up with boiled rice. - 191— SAVOUEY MEAT PIE. 4 large potatoes 1 lb. cold beef 1 onion Pepper and salt. Mode. — Slice the potatoes and onion, and place a layer of these in the bottom of the pie-dish, then a layer of beef (which has been previously minced), pepper and salt, fill up the dish with alternate layers, nearly fill the dish with warm water, cover and allow to bake for an hour ; remove the cover and put on a crust of short paste, and return to the oven until the paste is well cooked. 192— BEEF OLIVES. 1 small onion Breadcrumbs 6 olives Pepper, salt and flour Parsley Butter 1 lb. steak or remains cold sirloin.