Another Cold Meat Dish

Ingredients

• Make a batter of 3 tablespoonsful of flour
• 1/2 pint of milk
• one egg
• Chop the meat
• half a boiled onion
• 1/2 teaspoonful chopped parsley
• and salt

Method

1. 1

   Stir into the batter.

2. 2

   Grease a pie dish, stir in the omelette, and bake for 30 minutes.

3. 3

   Turn out on a dish, and serve with gravy.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "ideal" cookery book (1902) by Lilian Clarke, page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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