Mrs Beetons Meat Recipes Revisited
Broiled Beef and Oyster Sauce
(Cold Meat Cookery)
Slices of Cold Roast Beef
24 Oysters
Mashed Potatoes
50g (2oz) Butter
3 Cloves
1 Blade of Mace
½ tsp Flour
Cayenne and Salt, to taste
Put the oysters in a saucepan, with their strained liquor.
Add the cloves, mace, butter, flour and seasoning and allow to simmer gently for 5 minutes.
Have ready in the centre of a dish round walls of mashed potatoes, browned.
Pour the oyster sauce into the middle, quite hot and round the potatoes place, in layers, slices of the beef, which should be previously have been grilled.
Time: 5 minutes.
Sufficient for 4 or 5 persons.
Seasonable from September to April.
BROILED BEEF AND OYSTER SAUCE
(Cold Meat Cookery)
613. INGREDIENTS - 2 dozen oysters, 3 cloves, 1 blade of mace, 2 oz. of butter, 1/2 teaspoonful of flour, cayenne and salt to taste, mashed potatoes, a few slices of cold roast beef.
Mode - Put the oysters in a stewpan, with their liquor strained; add the cloves, mace, butter, flour, and seasoning, and let them simmer gently for 5 minutes. Have ready in the centre of a dish round walls of mashed potatoes, browned; into the middle pour the oyster sauce, quite hot, and round the potatoes place, in layers, slices of the beef, which should be previously broiled over a nice clear fire.
Time - 5 minutes.
Average cost, 1s, 6d., exclusive of the cold meat.
Sufficient for 4 or 5 persons.
Seasonable from September to April.
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