Cold Boiled Beef

Ingredients

• one-quarter pound of butter
• a tablespoonful of flour
• some chopped onion
• shred parsley
• three-fourths of a pound of good stock or gravy
• a tablespoonful of catsup
• season with pepper

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter over a slow fire, into flour, and when they have simmered a little, add chopped onion and parsley.

2. 2

   When browned, add stock or gravy; mince the meat finely, put it in with the rest, and let it heat gradually; when near boiling, thicken with flour, and just before serving, add catsup.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COLD BOILED BEEF. Melt one-quarter pound of butter, over a slow fire, into a tablespoonful of flour, and when they have simmered a little, add some chopped onion and shred parsley. When the whole is browned, season with pepper, and add three-fourths of a pound of good stock or gravy ; mince the meat finely, put it in with the rest, and let it heat gradually ; when near boiling, thicken with a tablespoon- ful of flour, and just before serving, add a tablespoonful of catsup

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