Beef à la Mode

Ingredients

• 10 lb Round of Beef
• 2 teaspoons Salt
• 2 teaspoons Fine Pepper
• 1 oz Fine Saltpetre
• 1 tablespoon Brown Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Mixed spices
• 1 tablespoon Vinegar
• Strips of Fat Bacon
• Breadcrumbs
• Suet
• Parsley
• Thyme
• Onion
• 0.5 tumbler Red Wine
• 1 spoonful Flour
• Lard and Gravy

Instructions

1. Hang the beef until quite tender.
2. The day before cooking, spread over the beef a mixture of the spices (ginger, mace, allspice, cloves, and coriander seeds), brown sugar, salt and pepper, moistened with vinegar.
3. The next day, fill the hole where the bone was taken out with a highly seasoned stuffing made of breadcrumbs, suet, parsley, thyme, and a few shreds of onion.
4. Skewer the opening and roll the meat into a good shape.
5. Lard the outside with strips of fat bacon.
6. Place the beef on a small tripod on a baking-dish into the oven.
7. Baste the meat continually with a little lard and gravy throughout cooking.
8. Half an hour before the meat is done, pour over it half a tumbler of red wine into which a spoonful of flour has been stirred.
9. Cook for four or five hours total until done.