A Nice Little Dish of Beef
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- cold roast beef
- onion
- pepper
- salt
- good gravy
- potatoes
- butter
Instructions
- Mince the cold roast beef very fine, combining both fat and lean meat. Add the chopped onion, pepper, and salt to taste, then mix in a little good gravy.
- Fill scallop shells two parts full with this beef mixture. Top each shell with mashed potatoes that have been smoothed with cream, filling them to the rim.
- Place a bit of butter on top of each shell and set them in an oven to brown.