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Mrs. Roundell's Practical cookery book

1898

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Presented as published in 1898. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Beef Olives. — Take a pound and a quarter of rump Steak, beat it well, or hack it with a very blunt knife on both sides. Cut it into thin strips two inches wide and six inches long. Spread them with sausage meat or forcemeat, roll them up, and tie each round with a thread. Put the rolls into a saucepan close together, with a sliced carrot, and a bunch of herbs, just cover them with stock (about a pint and a half ■will be wantedBeef Olives), and simmer them very gently till quite tender. This will take from three and a half to four hours. Arrange the rolls on a border of good mashed potato, being careful to remove the threads. Skim the stock, thicken it, strain it, and pour it round the rolls. Put a vegetable puree, such as spinach, in the centre of the dish. Marrow Patties, — Get the butcher to break the marrow- 174 BEEF bone so that the fresh marrow can be got out in pieces the size of a walnut. Put the marrow into a stewpan with a pinch of salt, cover it with cold water. Then boil it for a minute or two, and pass it through a hair sieve. Have ready six patty pans lined with puff paste. Mince finely one tablespoonful of mixed parsley, thyme, and chives (all previously blanched), take a tablespoonful of cream and beat it and the herbs well together with a few drops of lemon-juice, and a dust of salt and pepperMarrow Patties. Put the marrow in the patties with a little of this cream, cover with paste, and bake in a moderate oven for a quarter of an hour. Or when you have blanched the marrow let it drain and get cold on a sieve, then cut it in slices, warm it up in a little broth in the bain-marie and fill the patties. Pnt a dessertspoonful of marrow into each. See also Marrow-Bones, Beef Pie, Beef-steak Pie, and Savoury Stew. Beef-steak fop One Person.— {Family Recipe.) — Cut a small juicy Beef-steak one inch thick, and trim off all fat. Season with salt and pepperBeef-steak for One Person, and flour the Steak on both sides. Cover the bottom of a stewpan with just enough cold water to keep the meat from sticking, and let it cook on the hot-plate for an hour and a quarter, or longer if the Steak is large. This Steak is very tender, and the gravy is eqnal to beef tea. Serve on a hot- water plate. Vienna Steaks. — Mince very finely half a pound of raw lean beef and half a pound of raw lean veal. Season with spiced pepper and salt, add a dessertspoonful of chopped parsley and a teaspoonfnl of finely-minced shallot, and mix into the mince two well-beaten eggsVienna Steaks. The mixture should be half an inch thick. Turn it out on a flat dish and leave it all night to get firm. Next day cut the mince into rounds with a three and a half inch cutter, flour each, and sauter them in butter. Allow three minutes for one side, turn round, and allow three minutes for the other side. Dish the steaks round a pile of mashed potato, and hand round brown gravy. [Wyvern.~\ Tournedos, or Twice-laid, of Beef. — Pass half a pound of lean Hamburg spiced beef or salt beef through the mincer. Cut the fat into dice and fry them till the fat is thoroughly melted. Have ready in a hot saucepan a TOURNEDOS i75 Tournedos, or Twice-laid, of Beef