Potted Meat

Ingredients

• a pound of rump steak
• three ounces of butter
• season with cloves
• cayenne
• allspice
• mace
• nutmeg
• salt
• three ounces of oiled butter
• colour with cochineal

Method

1. 1

   Cut the rump steak into dice and place it in a jar with butter at the bottom.

2. 2

   Tie it down and boil in a saucepan of cold water over a good fire.

3. 3

   Season with spices when nearly done, boil until tender, then let it cool.

4. 4

   Wash and bone two anchovies, pound with the meat, stir in oiled butter, warm up, color with cochineal, press into small pots, and cover with melted fat.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 139. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a pound of rump steak, put it into a jar with three ounces of butter at the bottom, tie it down, stand it in a saucepan of cold water, and boil it over a good fire. When nearly done, season with cloves, cayenne, allspice, mace, nutmeg, and salt ; boil till tender, and let it get cold. Wash and bone two anchovies and pound them with the meat ; put the meat back into the saucepan, stir in three ounces of oiled butter, warm up, colour with cochineal

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