BROILED BEEF AND OYSTER SAUCE

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861
Source
The Book of Household Management
Time
Cook: 5 min Total: 5 min
Yield
4.0 – 5.0 persons
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (9)
Instructions (6)
  1. Put the oysters in a stewpan, with their liquor strained.
  2. Add the cloves, mace, butter, flour, and seasoning.
  3. Let them simmer gently for 5 minutes.
  4. Have ready in the centre of a dish round walls of mashed potatoes, browned.
  5. Into the middle pour the oyster sauce, quite hot.
  6. Round the potatoes place, in layers, slices of the beef, which should be previously broiled over a nice clear fire.
Original Text
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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