There are several dishes of this name: (1) (2)
Original Receipt in 'The Book of Household Management', 1861, edited by Isabella Beeton (See Mrs.B)BEEF ROLLS (Cold Meat Cookery).
647. INGREDIENTS: The remains of cold roast or boiled beef, seasoning to taste of salt, pepper, and minced herbs; puff paste.
Mode: Mince the beef tolerably fine with a small amount of its own fat; add a seasoning of pepper, salt, and chopped herbs; put the whole into a roll of puff paste, and bake for½ hour, or rather longer, should the roll be very large. Beef patties may be made of cold meat, by mincing and seasoning beef as directed above, and baking in a rich puff paste in patty-tins.
Time: ½ hour.
Seasonable: at any time.