Possible Clues:

• Beef put on butter is prime bit
• Deli meat often served on rye
• Westward island markets a soft smoked beef
• Meat on rye, sometimes
• In time gone by one welcomed butter and beef
• Beef and butter dunked in gently sparkling wine
• Lost memory? One might have a beef here
• Old animal I used in beef dish
• Former artist, on the road, given some beef
• Meat dish I put on father's vehicle