How to Boil Beef

A Plain Cookery Book for the Working ... · Francatelli, Charles Elmé · 1852
Source
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (4)
For the stew
Instructions (6)
  1. Put the beef into your three or four gallon pot, three parts filled with cold water, and set it on the fire to boil.
  2. Remove all the scum that rises to the surface, and then let it boil gently on the hob.
  3. When the meat has boiled an hour and is about half done, add the parsnips in a net.
  4. At the end of another half hour put in the cabbages, also in a net.
  5. The dumplings may, of course, be boiled with the beef, etc.
  6. The dumplings and vegetables, with a small quantity of the meat, would be all-sufficient for the children's meal.
Original Text
No. 2. How to Boil Beef. Put the beef into your three or four gallon pot, three parts filled with cold water, and set it on the fire to boil; remove all the scum that rises to the surface, and then let it boil gently on the hob; when the meat has boiled an hour and is about half[14] done, add the parsnips in a net, and at the end of another half hour put in the cabbages, also in a net. A piece of beef weighing five or six pounds will require about two hours' gentle boiling to cook it thoroughly. The dumplings may, of course, be boiled with the beef, etc. I may here observe that the dumplings and vegetables, with a small quantity of the meat, would be all-sufficient for the children's meal.
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