Beef à la Mode

Ingredients

• 10 pounds beef round
• 1.5 tablespoonfuls salt
• 1 teaspoonful cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoonful black pepper
• 4 large carrots
• 2 medium white turnips
• 4 sprigs parsley
• 0.5 pint claret
• 1 small onion

Instructions

1. Have the butcher lard the ten-pound round of beef.
2. Tie it tight with a strong cord.
3. Rub into the beef one and one-half tablespoonfuls of salt, one teaspoonful each of cayenne and black pepper.
4. Place the beef into a pot of sufficient size.
5. Slice thin four large carrots and two white turnips and lay them around the beef.
6. Add to the pot about four sprigs of parsley, half a pint of good claret, and one small onion, sliced.
7. Let it cook slowly for five or six hours and send to table.