Savoury Hash of Australian Meat

Ingredients

• a pound and a half of meat
• a dessert-spoonful of chopped herbs
• two-thirds parsley
• one-third marjoram and thyme
• half a pint of melted butter
• a small nut of brown thickening
• an ounce of butter
• half an ounce of flour
• two pickled gherkins

Method

1. 1

   Cut meat into pieces, season with pepper, salt, and herbs.

2. 2

   Prepare gravy with melted butter, stock, and thickening.

3. 3

   Add minced gherkins, warm the meat in the gravy, and serve immediately.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Savoury Hash of Australian Meat. Baked Batter Pudding1. Dinner. Parsnip Soup made of Sheep’s Head Broth. Cold Beef. Salad. Cutlets with Piquant® Sauce. Pried Potatoes. Brussels Sprouts. Apple Gateau. Cheese. Marketing. For the Bay.— A Neck of Nutton ; Parsnips and Gherkins, if these are not in the house; Salad. The butcher should be asked to pare away as much of the fat from the mutton as he can. It is economical to buy the whole of the neck of mutton rather than the best end. The scrag end can always be served separately. If asked to do so, the butcher will divide the cutlets. The best end of the neck will afford seven, three without bones and four with them. If not wanted immediately, the neck should hang in a cool place. Potatoes. Brussels Sprouts, Apples, Split Peas. Bee akf ast.— -Anchovies with hard-boiled eggs (January 18th); Lunch Tongue (January 2nd and 3rd) ; Milk Toast (June 17tli). Luncheon. — Savoury Hash of Australian Meat. — We will sup¬ pose there is a pound and a half of meat. Take a dessert-spoonful of chopped herbs, consisting of two-tliirds parsley and one-tliird marjoram and thyme. Cut the meat into pieces convenient for serving, and sprinkle over each one a little pepper and salt, and a portion of the mixed herbs. Take half a pint of melted butter made of the jelly of the meat dissolved in stock or hot water, and thickened with a small nut of brown thickening ; and if this is not at hand, with an ounce of butter and half an ounce of flour stirred over the fire together till brown. Let the gravy boil, then stir in two pickled gherkins

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