Warming a Good-sized Piece of Beef

Ingredients

• a good-sized piece of beef
• finely chopped parsley
• thyme
• a shred of onion
• an egg
• an equal quantity of gravy or milk
• pepper
• salt
• a slice of pork or bacon
• a good piece of butter

Method

1. 1

   Trim the beef and scoop out the inside.

2. 2

   Chop the scooped meat and mix with parsley, thyme, onion, bread crumbs, butter, pepper, and salt.

3. 3

   Make a paste with egg and gravy or milk, fill the hollow in the meat, and tie it.

4. 4

   Cook in a pot with pork and gravy or brush with beaten egg, cover with crumbs, pour melted butter, and bake, basting well.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Catherine Owen's new cook book .. (1885) by Helen Alice (Matthews) Nitsch, page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

o Wakm a Good-sized Piece of Beef. — Trim it as much like a thick fillet as you can ; cut it horizontally half way through, then scoop out as much as you can of the meat from the inside of each piece. Chop the meat fine that you have thus scooped out, season with a little finely chopped parsley and thyme, a shred of onion, if you like it; or if you have celery boil a little of the coarser part till tender, chop it and add Wanning Over, 79 as much bread finely crumbled as you have meat, and a good piece of butter ; add pepper and salt, and make all into a paste with an egg, mixed with an equal quantity of gravy or milk ; fill up the hollow in the meat and tie, or still better, sew it together. You may either put this in a pot with a slice of pork or bacon

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