385. A quicker way

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849

Source: The Modern Housewife
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (15)

lean bacon ↝ Beef, bacon, cooked [Bacon]
beef cut thin ↝ Beef, ground, raw [Ground beef]
pepper ↝ Spices, pepper, black [Spices and Herbs]
salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
chopped parsley ↝ Parsley, raw [Not included in a food category]
chopped eschalots (if not objectionable)
flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
half a gill of broth or water ↝ Soup, broth [Soups, broth-based]
coloring, No. 178
mashed potatoes ↝ Potatoes, raw, skin [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
half the above quantity of liquor
a thin suet crust
a bay-leaf ↝ Spices, bay leaf [Spices and Herbs]
chopped parsley ↝ Parsley, raw [Not included in a food category]
chopped gherkins ↝ Pickles, NFS [Olives, pickles, pickled vegetables]

Instructions (13)

Cook a few slices of lean bacon in a frying-pan, but not too much.
Lay some of the bacon in the bottom of the pie-dish.
Over the bacon, lay slices of beef cut thin.
Season the beef with a little pepper, salt, chopped parsley, and chopped eschalots (if not objectionable).
Sprinkle over a little flour.
Proceed thus until the dish is pretty full.
Pour over half a gill of broth or water, to which you have added a little coloring, No. 178.
Note: more seasoning would be required if water was used.
Cover the meat over with mashed potatoes.
Set the dish in the oven for about an hour.

Alternative preparation (pie)

By adding half the above quantity of liquor (0.25 gill), the meat might be covered with a thin suet crust and served as a pie.
This method can also be used for any of the former receipts.
A bay-leaf, chopped parsley, or even chopped gherkins, might be served with the pie, being a great improvement.

Original Text

385. A quicker way.—Cook a few slices of lean bacon in a frying-pan, but not too much, lay some of them in the bottom of the pie-dish, over which lay slices of beef cut thin, which season with a little pepper, salt, chopped parsley, and chopped eschalots (if not objectionable), sprinkle over a little flour, proceeding thus until the dish is pretty full, when pour over half a gill of broth or water, to which you have added a little coloring, No. 178, (more seasoning would be required if water was used), set the dish in the oven (having previously covered the meat over with mashed potatoes) for about an hour. By adding half the above quantity of liquor, the meat might be covered with a thin suet crust and served as a pie, as also might any of the former receipts, in which also a bay-leaf, chopped parsley, or even chopped gherkins, might be served, being a great improvement.

Notes

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