Creamed Chipped Beef

Chip a pound of dried beef very thin and pull it apart in small pieces. If it is very salt soak it in boiling water for fifteen minutes. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter in a frying-pan; add the beef and stir over the fire until thoroughly heated; then sprinkle over it two rounding tablespoonfuls of flour; mix and cook. Add half a pint of stock and half a pint of milk. Stir until boiling. Add a teaspoonful of kitchen bouquet and a dash of pepper. Take from the fire and add the yolk of an egg beaten with four tablespoonfuls of cream. Heat quickly and serve in a deep dish garnished with toast.

Chopped Steak

Put two pounds of lean beef through a meat-chopper; add two level teaspoonfuls of salt and a saltspoonful of pepper; mix thoroughly and form into one large steak. Broil slowly over a clear fire or in a hot pan; cook on one side, then turn and cook on the other for about ten minutes. Dish on a heated plate, and put over it a tablespoonful of butter and a tablespoonful of chopped parsley, or serve with tomato or mushroom sauce.