Beef Roll, or Canellon de Bœuf (Entrée)

Ingredients

• 2 lbs lean and very tender beef
• 1 lb bacon
• 1 large teaspoonful pepper
• salt
• 1 small nutmeg
• 1 lemon
• flour and water paste
• butter
• brown gravy

Instructions

1. Chop and mix thoroughly two pounds of lean and very tender beef with one pound of slightly striped bacon.
2. Season the mixture with pepper, salt, nutmeg (or mace), and either grated lemon rind or minced thyme and parsley.
3. Form the whole into a thick rouleau (roll).
4. Wrap a buttered paper around the roll.
5. Enclose the wrapped roll in a paste made of flour and water.
6. Send it to a moderate oven for a couple of hours.
7. Remove the paper and the crust.
8. Serve the meat with a little brown gravy.