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Beef, Hash, with Croutons

Take a pint of good stock, a table-spoonful of lemon pickle, one of mushroom ketchup, a glass of claret, and about a dozen silver button onions, which have been previously fried in butter and well browned. Put the mixture into a stewpan with the butter in which the onions were fried. Set it over a clear fire until the onions are tender, then pour it all over about two pounds of cold beef cut into slices. Let it stand about twenty minutes, well covered; then draw it nearer to the fire, but do not allow it to boil. Serve up with croutons. To prepare the croutons: take two rounds of bread cut very thin, make them any desired shape, long strips, stars, or rounds; fry them in boiling butter a nice brown colour, drain on a cloth, and serve. Probable cost, without meat, 7d. or 8d. Sufficient for four or five persons.