A Small Roast of Beef
HAD a New Zealand friend in Washington, who had only been married and living there a short time. She told me that after their honeymoon, when they were established in a flat, she decided to have a good typical New Zealand Sunday dinner, So she asked for a small roast of beef, about 3 or 4
pounds, Dut when it was wrappeac up, and she was asked to pay 27/6, she nearly collapsed. She compromised with three pork chops, which was within the scope of: her housekeeping allowance. She learnt, as I soon learnt, that the Americans didn’t have roast of beef and roast legs and fore-quarters of lamb in the light-hearted way we do. They had more poultry, and far more
made dishes, Dut the roast joint was very fare, and I don’t wonder at that price. Once or twice, as a compliment to me as a New Zealand visitor, I was served with roast lamb, but I found my hostess had spent a reckless sum to get it. The Americans live well; they eat lots of salads; in fact the salad is a separate course with dinner, and they quite frequently make a lunch off a salad, but it is a very good and comprehensive salad. And you got a great many things served up in a cream sauce. One, which I came across rather too often, and did not like, was pressed beef, shaved very thin, and bedded down in this cream sauce. Oysters, mushrooms, brains, sweetbreads and other little odds and ends were treated in the same manner, and took the place of our hearty meat meal out here.-(" Shoes and Ships and Seal-ing-wax," by Nelle Scanlan, 2YA, July 29.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 5
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289A Small Roast of Beef New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 5
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