BAKED BEEF (Cold Meat Cookery) (II)

Ingredients

• Slices of cold roast beef
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 sliced onion
• 1 teaspoonful minced savoury herbs
• 5-6 tablespoonful gravy or sauce of any kind
• mashed potatoes

Instructions

1. Butter the sides of a deep dish, and spread mashed potatoes over the bottom of it; on this place layers of beef in thin slices (this may be minced if there is not sufficient beef to cut into slices), well seasoned with pepper and salt, and a very little onion end herbs, which should be previously fried of a nice brown;
2. then put another layer of mashed potatoes, and beef, and other ingredients, as before;
3. pour in the gravy or sauce, cover the whole with another layer of potatoes, and bake for 1/2 hour.
4. This may be served in the dish, or turned out.