HASHED BEEF (Cold Meat Cookery) (II)

Ingredients

• The remains of ribs or sirloin of beef
• 2 onions
• 1 carrot
• 1 bunch savoury herbs
• pepper and salt to taste
• 1/2 blade pounded mace
• thickening of flour
• rather more than 1 pint of water

Instructions

1. Take off all the meat from the bones of ribs or sirloin of beef;
2. remove the outside brown and gristle;
3. place the meat on one side, and well stew the bones and pieces, with the above ingredients, for about 2 hours, till it becomes a strong gravy, and is reduced to rather more than 1/2 pint;
4. strain this, thicken with a teaspoonful of flour, and let the gravy cool;
5. skim off all the fat;
6. lay in the meat, let it get hot through, but do not allow it to boil, and garnish with sippets of toasted bread.
7. The gravy may be flavoured as in the preceding recipe.