Minced Beef or Mutton

Ingredients

• Cold beef (cut into dice) . I lb.
• Onion (chopped) I.
• Butter
• Flour
• Brown stock
• Mushroom catsup ...
• Pepper and salt

Method

1. 1

   Melt the butter in a stewpan, put in the onion, fry a nice brown, add the flour and stock, boil well, then add the catsup, pepper and salt.

2. 2

   Simmer for ten or fifteen minutes.

3. 3

   Put in the meat, let it get quite hot, and serve in a neatly-made border of mashed potatoes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Home cookery (1898) by North Midland School of Cookery, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Onion (chopped) i. Parsley (chopped) | tablespoonful. Seasoning to taste. Uncooked potatoes (sliced). Milk. Mince the meat, add the onion and parsley, season well. Butter a pie-dish, put at the bottom a layer of mince, then a layer of potatoes, and so on till the dish is full. Cover thickly with potatoes. Fill with milk, and bake for at least two hours in a moderate oven. Fill up with milk while baking, if necessary. The onion and parsley may be omitted if preferred. Minced Beef or Mutton. Cold beef (cut into dice) . Onion (chopped) Butter Flour Brown stock Mushroom catsup ... Pepper and salt

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