Hashed Beef on Toast

Ingredients

• cold roast beef
• a level tablespoonful of flour
• a small teacupful of soup-stock or water
• half a dozen slices of bread
• a tablespoonful of butter

Method

1. 1

   Chop beef finely and season with salt and pepper.

2. 2

   For each pint of meat, add flour and soup-stock or water.

3. 3

   Simmer for twenty minutes.

4. 4

   Toast bread and spread meat mixture on top.

5. 5

   Serve immediately.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 178. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HASHED BEEF ON TOAST. Chop a quantity of cold roast beef rather fine and season it well with pepper and salt. For each pint of meat add a level tablespoonful of flour. Stir well and add a small teacupful of soup-stock or water. Put the mixture into a small stewpan and, after covering it, simmer for twenty minutes. Meanwhile, toast half a dozen slices of bread nicely and at the end of the twenty minutes spread the meat upon them. Serve at once on a hot dish. In case water be used instead of soup-stock, add a tablespoonful of butter

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