The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Beeton

15. Shin,--stewing.

The following is a classification of the qualities of meat, according to the several joints of beef, when cut up in the London manner. _First class_.--includes the sirloin, with the kidney suet (1), the rump-steak piece (2), the fore-rib (9). _Second class_.--The buttock (4), the thick flank (7), the middle-rib (10). _Third class_.--The aitch-bone (3), the mouse-round (5), the thin flank (8), the chuck (11), the leg-of-mutton piece (12), the brisket (13). _Fourth class_.--The neck, clod, and sticking-piece (14). _Fifth class_.--The hock (6), the shin (15). RECIPES.