Beef Mince

Ingredients

• Rub six pounds or more of round of beef
• half a pound of brown sugar
• one ounce of saltpetre
• one pound of butter

Method

1. 1

   Rub beef with sugar and saltpetre, let it sit for 24 hours, wash, dry, and season.

2. 2

   Cut into pieces, bake in a hot oven for three hours, mince, and pound in a mortar.

3. 3

   Heat butter with gravy and mix to desired stiffness.

4. 4

   Press into jars, cover with clarified butter, and store in a dry place.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery (1897) by Marguerite Ninet, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Rub six pounds or more of round of beef with half a pound of brown sugar and one ounce of salt- petre, let it lie for twenty-four hours in a pan, wash it, dry it with a cloth, season with a mixture of pounded mace and pepper and salt to taste, cut it into six or eight pieces, and put it into an earthenware jar with lumps of butter, bake it in a hot oven for three hours, trim off all hard surfaces, etc., mince and PICKLING AND PHESERVING. 119 pound it in a mortar, add more mace and general seasoning, heat one pound of butter

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