BROILED BEEF AND OYSTER SAUCE (Cold Meat Cookery)

Ingredients

• 2 dozen oysters
• 3 cloves
• 1 blade mace
• 2 oz butter
• 1/2 teaspoonful flour
• cayenne and salt to taste
• mashed potatoes
• a few slices of cold roast beef

Instructions

1. Put the oysters in a stewpan, with their liquor strained;
2. add the cloves, mace, butter, flour, and seasoning, and let them simmer gently for 5 minutes.
3. 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.