The Cook Book of Left-Overs

What to do with left-over everything, 1911 — beef to cake, four hundred ways to use what the last meal left behind.

Left-Over Beef

18 recipes in this part of The Cook Book of Left-Overs.

Beef Pie

Cut cold roast beef into inch-square pieces, using two cups. Put into a quart baking-dish and season with one-half teaspoonful of salt, a…

Fire Island Stew

A good Monday dinner when a Sunday roast and macaroni have preceded it. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add one small sliced onion, and…

Pot-Roast Pie

Remove the seeds and parboil one medium-sized sweet green pepper in boiling water for five minutes.` Cut into thin slices and sprinkle a…

Twentieth-Century Hash

Have baked six medium-sized potatoes. With a spoon carefully remove the potato, leaving rest of skin unbroken. Season the potato with one…

Minced Beef with Potato Border

To two cups of well - seasoned mashed potato add the yolks of two eggs. Beat together until very light and creamy. Form this mixture into a…

Irish Rissoles

Any kind of meat may be used for these, preferably rare roast beef or steak. Put the meat through the meat grinder together with enough…

Sift

Season one cup of chopped meat with salt, pepper, and a drop or two of Tabasco sauce. together three-quarters of a cup of flour. one and…

Shepherd's Pie

Minced roast beef Mashed potatoes Salt and pepper Butter (mashed with potatoes) Roast beef gravy Put beef and potatoes in layers in a…

Beef Balls with Horseradish Sauce

Season a cup and a half of cold chopped beef with salt, pepper, celery salt, very little onionjuice, and lemon-juice; add one beaten egg…

Corned-Beef Hash

This dish is most acceptably prepared by using some of the fat meat chopped with the lean. To two cups of meat chopped rather coarse, allow…

Corned-Beef-and-Beet Hash

Use about equal amounts of cooked corned beef and boiled potatoes, and a little less quantity of cooked beets. Chop all three separately…

Corned Beef Creamed

Slice any remnants of cold corned beef in thin pieces to make two cups. Make two cups white sauce No. 8 (see page 68) Cook until smooth and…

Beef Soup

A good soup can be made of the bones and "odds and ends" of the roast, with the usual vegetables and seasonings, but the soup will be…

Savory Meat

Celery salt, I tea- Salt, teaspoonful spoonful Summer savory, Grated onion, teaspoonful White pepper, 1 teaspoonful

Nutmeg

Sweet marjoram, 1 Paprika teaspoonful teaspoonful Chop the meat fine, removing all gristle. Season, moisten with the stock, and press into…

The Sunday Roast and Good Carving

Practise the art of good carving. A well-carved joint looks better, tastes better, and goes further.

Cold Roast Beef with Horseradish Sauce

Let the first use of left-over roast beef be the serving of it sliced and cold--it is a mistake to miss this use. Cut thin slices of the…

Horseradish Sauce

Season two tablespoonfuls of grated horseradish with one-quarter teaspoonful each of salt and sugar, and one tablespoonful of vinegar. Whip…

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