Boiled Beef Recipe
This is an economical dinner, especially where there are many mouths to
feed. Buy a few pounds of either salt brisket, thick or thin flank, or
buttock of beef; these pieces are always to be had at a low rate. Let us
suppose you have bought a piece of salt beef for a Sunday's dinner,
weighing about five pounds, at 6-1/2d. per pound, that would come to
2s. 8-1/2d.; two pounds of common flour, 4d., to be made into suet
pudding or dumplings, and say 8-1/2d. for cabbages, parsnips, and
potatoes; altogether 3s. 9d. This would produce a substantial dinner
for ten persons in family, and would, moreover, as children do not
require much meat when they have pudding, admit of there being enough
left to help out the next day's dinner, with potatoes.
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