Potted Beef

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 pound beef stew meat, cut into 1/2 inch pieces
• 1/4 pound butter
• salt to taste
• ground black pepper to taste
• paprika to taste
• ground nutmeg to taste

Recipe

Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ready Time: 4 hrs


• in a heavy medium saucepan, simmer the beef in 1/4 inch of water. stew until very tender, about 2 to 3 hours, replacing water as necessary. drain, reserving the liquid.
• pass the cooked stew meat through a meat grinder twice, until it is the consistency of a thick, stringy paste.
• in a small saucepan, melt the butter. filter the melted butter through clean muslin (cheese cloth), to remove the milk solids.
• in a medium bowl, mix the cooked meat with 3/4 of the strained, melted butter. season with salt, pepper, paprika and nutmeg to taste. stir in desired amount of reserved cooking liquid to moisten.
• transfer the mixture to sterile containers and top with remaining butter. seal and chill in the refrigerator until serving.