A nice dish from Cold Beef with Mashed Potatoes

Hint 10 Mash potatoes, either in a plain way, or with hot milk, and the yolk of an egg, and add some butter and salt. Slice the cold Beef and lay it at the bottom of a pie dish, adding to it some sliced shallots, pepper, salt, and a little beef gravy; cover the whole with a thick paste of the potatoes, and make the crust to rise like a pie crust. Score the potato crust with the point of a knife in squares of equal size. Put the dish before a fire in a Dutch oven, and brown it on all sides. When nicely browned, serve immediately. This, with an apple tart or dumpling to follow, is a capital makeshift dinner for a small family; or a nice supper for a winter's evening.

“Rissoles” of Cold Beef Mutton or Veal

Hint 11 Mince cold Beef or Mutton, season it to liking, and moisten with a little mushroom or walnut ketchup. Make with beef dripping a very thin paste, and roll it into thin pieces about four inches square; enclose in each piece some of the mince, in the same way as for puffs, cutting each neatly round; fry them in dripping of a very light brown. The paste can scarcely be rolled out too thin. Cold Veal may be dressed in the same way, grating into it some bits of cooked ham, and mixing with white sauce, flavoured with mushrooms. The same mince may be fried in balls without pastry, being first cemented together with egg and breadcrumbs.

To make a very relishable dish from Cold Beef or
Mutton, with the addition of Poached Eggs