SIMPLE WAYS OF USING COLD COOKED MEAT.
Curry. Time—1¼ hour.
1 lb. pieces of cold cooked meat, 2 oz. clarified dripping, 1 apple, 1 onion, 1 dessertspoonful curry powder, 1 dessertspoonful flour; salt and pepper to taste; ½ pint cold water.
Peel and cut up the onion and apple, and cut the meat into neat slices; fry the vegetables brown in the dripping, add the curry powder, flour, salt and pepper, and stir the water into it gradually. Let it boil, and then simmer for ½ hour with the lid off. Add the meat, heat it through, but do not let it boil. Serve in a ring of boiled rice (see page 35).
Hash. Time—2 hours.
1 lb. cold cooked meat and bones, 2 onions, 1 carrot, a small bunch of herbs, ½ oz. dripping, 1 tablespoonful flour, 1 dessertspoonful ketchup, 1 saltspoonful salt, ½ saltspoonful pepper.
Chop the bones of the meat into small pieces, and put them into a saucepan with enough cold water to cover them. Add to them the herbs, chopped onion, and the carrot, washed, scraped and cut into slices. Simmer 1½ hour, strain, and add the seasoning. Cut the other onion into thin slices, fry it brown in the dripping, add it to the stock, and thicken with the flour. Stir well till it boils, then add the ketchup, the meat cut into neat slices, and heat thoroughly without boiling. Serve with small pieces of toast, or in a ring of mashed potatoes.
Macaroni Mutton. Time—2¼ hours.
1 lb. cold cooked mutton, 1 large onion, 1 oz. dripping, 1 pint of stock or pot-liquor, 1 tablespoonful sauce of any kind, ¼ lb. macaroni; pepper and salt to taste.
Fry (in a saucepan) some slices of mutton (underdone is best) in the dripping, with the onion cut in pieces, then add the stock or pot-liquor, Worcester, Harvey or other sauce, pepper, salt and macaroni. Simmer for 2 hours and serve.
Meat Croquettes. Time—1 hour.
¼ lb. cold meat; pepper and salt to taste; ½ lb. cold boiled potatoes, ¼ lb. flour, 2 oz. dripping, bread-crumbs or vermicelli, 1 egg.
Rub the potatoes through a sieve, add the flour and salt and rub in the dripping. Mix to a stiff paste with cold water, roll it out and cut in into rounds. Put a little chopped meat in each round, egg half the round, press the edges together and nick them. Roll each croquette first in egg and then in bread-crumbs or vermicelli, and fry in boiling fat or oil.
Cold Meat Patties. Time—1 hour.
½ lb. cold cooked meat, ¾ lb. flour, ¼ lb. dripping, 1 teaspoonful baking-powder, pepper and salt to taste, ½ teaspoonful mixed herbs, 1 gill stock or gravy.
Rub the fat into the flour, add the baking-powder, mix to a stiff paste with a little cold water, roll it out ¼ inch thick, and cut 24 rounds. Grease 12 patty pans, and line them with 12 rounds of paste. Mince the cold meat, season with pepper, salt, and half a teaspoonful mixed herbs, moisten with stock or gravy. Fill the patty pans with the mixture, press on the remaining 12 rounds of paste, trim the edges neatly, decorate, brush over with beaten egg, and bake ½ hour.
Potato Pie. Time—1 hour.
1 lb. cold cooked meat, 1½ lb. boiled potatoes, 1 oz. dripping, 1 tablespoonful gravy or water, ½ teaspoonful herbs or 1 onion, 1 teaspoonful salt, ¼ teaspoonful pepper.
Cut the meat into small pieces, or mince it, sprinkle with the seasoning and put in a pie-dish, add the water or gravy. Melt the dripping, add to it the mashed potatoes, pepper and salt, stir well and spread over the meat to form a crust. Smooth neatly with a knife dipped in hot water, and mark with a fork. Bake in a hot oven about ¾ hour.
Potato Surprise. Time—½ hour.
2 oz. lean cooked mutton, 1 potato, pepper and salt.
Choose a large potato, parboil it without peeling, cut a small piece off the end and scoop out the inside. Mince the meat fine, flavour with pepper and salt, mix with a little gravy and fill the potato. Cork up the end with the piece cut off and bake about 20 minutes.
Ragout of Beef. Time—2½ hours.
1 lb. pieces of beef, raw or cooked, ½ pint cold water, 3 large onions, 1 teaspoonful salt, ¼ teaspoonful pepper, 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley, ½ teaspoonful chopped herbs, ½ oz. rice or pearl barley.
Peel and cut the onions into rings, cut the pieces of meat into squares, put them in a stew-pan, add all the other ingredients and then the water. Simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally to prevent burning.
Rissoles. Time—¾ hour.
½ lb. cold cooked meat, ½ gill stock or gravy, 1 dessertspoonful flour, 1 oz. dripping, ½ teaspoonful mixed herbs, or 1 slice cold smoked beef, ½ teaspoonful chopped parsley, pepper and salt to taste, 1 egg, bread-crumbs.
Melt the dripping, stir in the flour and stock, the seasoning, and lastly the meat, chopped fine. Heat thoroughly, then turn on to a plate to cool; form into balls, dip into egg and bread-crumbs, and fry a golden brown in hot fat or oil.
Salt Meat Salad. Time—¼ hour.
Cut up into neat pieces any scraps of cold salt meat. To a small quantity, add 1 tablespoonful capers, 1 tablespoonful mustard pickles, and small pieces of watercress chopped fine. Mix well together, heap on to a dish and garnish, if liked, with the white and yolk of a hard boiled egg rubbed through a sieve, strips of beetroot and small bunches of watercress.
Tomato Pie. Time—¾ hour.
1 lb. cold mutton, ½ lb. potatoes, 1 lb. tomatoes, 1 gill stock, ½ onion, pepper and salt to taste.
Cut the meat into neat pieces, add the potatoes and onion sliced, and cover with sliced tomato. Add the stock and seasoning, make a short crust (see page 41) and bake about ½ hour.
Stuffed Tomatoes.
2 lbs. round tomatoes, 2 oz. chopped smoked beef, 1 chopped shalot, 2 to 3 mushrooms, 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley, 1 tablespoonful bread-crumbs.
Cut a small piece off the top of each tomato and squeeze them slightly. Mix the other ingredients over the fire for a few minutes, then stuff each tomato with some of the mixture, replace the top pieces, sprinkle with bread-crumbs and bake 10 minutes.
Stuffed Vegetable Marrow. Time—½ hour.
1 marrow, 1 lb. cold meat, pepper and salt to taste, ½ teaspoonful herbs, ½ gill stock or gravy.
Cut a small piece off the end of the marrow, scoop out the seeds, and replace them with the meat, chopped fine and seasoned, and moistened with stock. Cork up the end with the piece cut off, roll up in a pudding cloth, cover with boiling water, and cook about twenty minutes. Serve with gravy. This dish may also be baked, but must be basted occasionally with dripping.
Walnut Stew. Time—2 hours.
Proceed as for Hash (page 28), but when heating the meat, add 2 pickled walnuts cut up small, and a little of the liquor, and garnish with 6 or 8 walnuts instead of toast.