FRIED PATTIES (Cold Meat Cookery)

Ingredients

• Cold roast veal
• a few slices of cold ham
• 1 egg boiled hard, pounded mace
• pepper and salt to taste
• gravy
• cream
• 1 teaspoonful minced lemon-peel
• good puff-paste

Instructions

1. Mince a little cold veal and ham, allowing one-third ham to two-thirds veal;
2. add an egg boiled hard and chopped, and a seasoning of pounded mace, salt, pepper, and lemon-peel; moisten with a little gravy and cream.
3. Make a good puff-paste;
4. roll rather thin, and cut it into round or square pieces;
5. put the mince between two of them, pinch the edges to keep in the gravy, and fry a light brown.
6. They may be also baked in patty-pans: in that case, they should be brushed over with the yolk of an egg before they are put in the oven.
7. To make a variety, oysters may be substituted for the ham.