Cookbook:Gravy Cakes (Hartshorne)

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Gravy cakes are meat-based cakes, great as sides to a roast dinner or other meat-based meal. This recipe is an interpreted method from the original recipe in Henry Hartshorne's the Household Cyclopedia.

Ingredients

 * 2 legs of beef
 * 700 ml (1.5 pints / 3 cups) water
 * 3 onions
 * Gravy spices

Procedure

 * 1) Chop 2 legs of beef in pieces, put them into a pot of water, and slow cook for 24 hours.
 * 2) Add onions, herbs, and spices as for gravy.
 * 3) Continue stewing until the meat is off the bones, and the gravy has started to develop.
 * 4) Strain the mixture into a milk-pan, to which quantity it should be reduced.
 * 5) When cold, skim off the fat, put it into a saucepan, and add any other flavourings as wanted.
 * 6) Simmer it on a slow heat until reduced to about 12 saucers two-thirds full,
 * 7) Put them in an airy place till as dry as leather, put them in paper bags, and keep in a dry place.