Dresden Patties (Beef)

Ingredients

• some cooked beef
• a small quantity of cooked bacon
• a dust of salt
• a dust of pepper
• some clarified dripping
• two teaspoonfuls of minced onion
• some slices of bread
• plenty of boiling fat
• a little powdered parsley

Method

1. 1

   Mince cooked beef and bacon, season with salt and pepper.

2. 2

   Fry minced onion in dripping until brown, add minced meat and stir for 8 minutes.

3. 3

   Add brown sauce to moisten.

4. 4

   Cut bread into rounds, dip in milk, brush with egg, cover with breadcrumbs, fry until golden.

5. 5

   Fill with mince and scatter parsley on top.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soyer's standard cookery (1912) by Nicolas Soyer, page 111. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Dresden Patties (Beef). Mince some cooked beef finely, taking care to remove all the fat and gristle; and a small quantity of cooked bacon, also minced, and a dust of salt and pepper. Spread some clarified dripping evenly over a small stewpan, put in two teaspoonfuls of minced onion and let it fry for a few minutes until it shows signs of becoming brown, then add the minced meat and stir it constantly for eight minutes. Pour in sufficient nicely- flavored, thick, brown sauce to moisten the mince, draw the pan to the side of the stove and let it simmer for fifteen to twenty minutes. Cut some slices of bread from a " tin " loaf of about one inch in thickness, stamp them out into medium- size rounds with a cutter, mark the bread in the middle but 160 STANDARD COOKERY. without cutting it through; dip the rounds of bread quickly into milk, then brush them over with some beaten egg, and after covering them thickly with fine dry breadcrumbs, fry them at once in plenty of boiling fat. Take care the bread does not become more than a golden brown, and after draining it on paper, remove the portion from each round which was marked with the small cutter, and fill up the little cases thus formed with the prepared mince. Have ready a little pow- dered parsle

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