This section is from the book "The People's Cook Book", by Jennie Taylor. See also: Larousse Gastronomique.
Take a shin of beef from the hind quarter, saw it into four pieces, put it into a pot and boil it until the meat and gristle drop from the bones; chop the meat very fine, put it in a dish and season it with a little salt, pepper, clove, and sage to your taste; pour in the liquor in which the meat was boiled and place it away to harden. Cut in slices and eat cold.
Dried beef chipped very fine; put butter and lard into a skillet, and when hot put in the beef; heat for a few minutes, stirring to prevent burning; break up some eggs into a bowl; season and stir in and cook a few minutes.
Three eggs well beaten, to which add nine tablespoonfuls of flour, a small teaspoonful of salt, and beat up with milk until about the consistency of thick cream. This batter pour into a pan in which the beef has been roasted, having enough grease (which must be hot) to bake it. Bake in a quick oven.
Put in the skillet a little lard and the steak; peel and slice the onions and lay them over the meat till the skillet is full; season with pepper and salt, cover tightly and place over the fire. After the juice of the onions has boiled away and the meat begins to fry, remove the onions, turn the meat to brown on the other side, then replace the onions as before, being careful that they do not burn.
Take a sirloin steak raw, remove the bone and all gristle or stringy pieces, and chop until a perfect mince; season with salt and pepper; make into a large flat cake about one-half of an inch thick; put into a skillet a good-sized piece of butter and when quite hot put in the steak, and fry brown on both sides. Make a little gravy in the skillet and pour over the meat. This is a nice way to use the ends from tenderloin steaks. The meat can not be chopped too fine.
Take a rump steak about an inch thick; make a stuffing of bread, herbs, etc., and spread it over the steak. Roll it up, and with a needle and coarse thread sew it together. Lay it in an iron pot on one or two wooden skewers, and put in water just sufficient to cover it. Let it stew slowly for two hours; longer if the beef is tough; serve it in a dish with the gravy turned over it. To be carved crosswise, in slices, through beef and stuffing.
Broil a sirloin or tenderloin steak; season; take one quart of oysters, drain off all the liquor, put them into the stew-pan with half of a small cupful of butter, or less butter and a little sweet cream; let them boil, and turn them over the steak on the platter. Oysters broiled and laid on the steak are very nice.
Take one pound best rump steak without any fat; put in an oval dish a dozen and a half oysters (taking care to remove the hard part and beard), with the liquor from the oysters to cover them; put the steak on them, cover the top of the steak with two onions cut in the thinnest possible manner; put another dish inverted over the steak, then put a paste round the edge of both dishes and put this into a gentle oven for an hour. Reverse the dishes for five minutes, then take off the dish which was originally at the top, and serve.
 
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