Recipe for potted meat?

[retep 68]

Mrs Beetons,

Potted Beef

2lb lean beef

a pinch of powdered cloves

a pinch of powdered mace

a good pinch of powdered allspice

salt- pepper

1/2 -1 teaspoon anchovy essence

Clarified butter

Wipe trim and cut the meat into small pieces.

Put in a stone jar or casserole with 1 tablespoon water, the cloves,mace, allspice,

salt -pepper. Cover with several thicknesses of greased paper and a lid,

and place in a pan of boiling water, or cook in the oven in a tin of boiling water.

Cook gently for about three hours, replenishing the water as it reduces.

Then pound the meat well, adding juice from the meat and a few drops of anchovy

essence by degrees.

Season to taste, rub through a fine wire sieve, press into pots and cover with

melted clarified butter.

 

Or just buy some.

[Potted Dog 10]

The Company is still there now called Binghams Food Ltd - it has been at Western Rd since the 1930s and was started by a Charles Bingham in 1913 . Does anyone out there used to work for the "Potted Dog Factory" ??

 

Slightly off the subject, but wasn't there a potted meat factory on Western Road, Crookes? I'm sure I remember one when I was a youngster.

 

Dave

[handypandy 14]

I love it! but (and I promise this is no word of a lie) In 1969/70 I worked briefly for a food wholsaler near West Bar. The proprietor purchased from somewhere (I dont know), hundreds of boxes of six pound cans of corned beef dating back to the second world war. He sent some samples off to be analyzed for 'fit for human consunption'. It was grey in colour:gag:

The results were fine and the whole lot was purchased by a well known local factory, who shall remain nameless, to be processed into potted meat. I kid you not.

[Potted Dog 10]

That was Binghams.

 

That Still is Binghams

[skippy_54 10]

My dad used to make something he called potted meat, he used,

 

1lb shin beef

1 cow heal ready boiled (it is white in colour)

salt and pepper

 

Mince the shin beef

take the cow heal of the bone and mince

 

simmer both until soft and drain of all the liquid,put all the meat into a dish and place a saucer over it and press over night with weights on the saucer, turn it out onto a plate and it should look like a jelly.

He used to have it on sandwiches.

 

I dont know if you can still get cow heal anywhere but he use to get it in the market, ready boiled, that is what sets it like jelly I think they make gelatine out of it.

[loobylou-lou 10]

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[echo beach 581]

There used to be a potted meat factory on Ecclesall Road in the building to the right of the Berkeley Centre. The company was called Hartley's Potted Beef.

In the late '50s and early '60s my Mum used to make deliveries in a small van from there to shops all over Sheffield and as far out as the Peak district. I'm not sure when it closed.

[Downsunder 10]

got this recipe from a good owd yorkshire lass and it taste just as good to me

1tin of stewing steak 1tin of corned beef

one oxo and 100mils water

 

put in blender and blend to a paste.

if you like a stronger taste put 2 oxos into it,

living in tassie we carnt seem to get stewing steak so i use braise steak and onion and omit the water. enjoy folks

[heeleyson 10]

For a potted dog sarnie - start by getting your shoes on, make it to a bread shop and insist on oven bottom breadcakes.Nip into an half decent butchers and ask for 1/4 for one or1/2 lb for two of potted dog. Leg it home and paste well on said breadcakes,stuff down your neck and head out on the lash mmmmm! Works well on a saturday cos your owd lass feels involved.