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Beef Olives

Meats

Individual portions of very thin beef, or veal, steaks rolled around a filling such as bacon stuffing, chopped mushrooms etc. Baked in a gravy.

WM 1658 suggests seasoning the steaks with nutmeg, pepper, salt and sugar and rolling them round suet, chopped herbs and egg, to serve with a gravy containing wine or verjuice with sugar and onion. Walsh 1859 uses bread, shallot, a little suet or fat, pepper and salt.


Original Receipt in WM 1658;

To make a Dish called Olives.
Take a Fillet of Veale, and the flesh frow the bones, and the fat and skin from either, cut it into very thin slices, beat them with the back of your Knife, lay then abroad on a Dish, season them with Nutmeg, Pepper, Salt and Sugar, chop halfe a pound of Beefe-Suet very small, and strew upon the top of the meat, then take a good handfull of herbs as Parsly, Time, Winter-Savoury, Sorrell, and Spinage, chop them very small, and strew over it, and four Egges with the whites, mingle all these well together with your hands, then roul it up peice by peice, put it upon the spit, roasting it an hour and half, and if it grow dry, baste it with a little sweet Butter, the sauce is Verjuyce or Clarret-Wine with the Gravy of the Meat and Sugar, take a whole Onyon and stew it on a Chafing Dish of coales, and when it tastes of the Onyon, pour the liquor from it on the meat, setting it a while on the coales, and serve it in.




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