à-la-mode BEEF

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 180 min Total: 180 min
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
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Ingredients (16)
beef
forcemeat
baking
gravy
Instructions (11)
  1. Take the bone out of a rump of beef.
  2. Lard the top with bacon.
  3. Make a forcemeat of four ounces of marrow, two heads of garlick, the crumbs of a penny loaf, a few sweet herbs, chopped small, nutmeg, pepper, and salt to your taste, and the yolks of four eggs well beat.
  4. Mix it up, and stuff your beef where the bone came out, and in several places in the lean part.
  5. Skewer it round, and bind it about with a fillet.
  6. Put it in a pot, with a pint of red wine, and tie it down with strong paper.
  7. Bake it in the oven for three hours.
  8. When it comes out, if you want to eat it hot, skim the fat off the gravy, and add half an ounce of morels, a spoonful of pickled mushrooms.
  9. Thicken it with flour and butter.
  10. Dish up your beef and pour on your gravy.
  11. Lay round it forcemeat balls, and send it up.
Original Text
To à-la-mode BEEF. TAKE the bone out of a rump of beef, lard the top with bacon, then make a forcemeat of four ounces of marrow, two heads of garlick, the crumbs of a penny loaf, a few sweet herbs, chopped small, nutmeg, pepper, and salt to your taste, and the yolks of four eggs well beat, mix it up, and stuff your beef where the bone came out, and in several places in the lean part, skewer it round, and bind it about with a fillet, put it in a pot, with a pint of red wine, and tie it down with strong paper, bake it in the oven for three hours; when it comes out, if you want to eat it hot, skim the fat off the gravy, and add half an ounce of morels, a spoonful of pickled mush- rooms, thicken it with flour and butter, dish up your beef and pour on your gravy; lay round it forcemeat balls, and send it up. To make Brisket of Beef à-la-royale. BONE a brisket of beef, and make holes in it with a knife, about an inch one from another, fill one hole with fat bacon, a second with chop- ped parsley, and a third with chopped oysters, seasoned with nutmeg, pepper, and salt, till you have done the brisket over, then pour a pint of red wine boiling hot upon the beef, dredge it well with flour, send it to the oven, and bake it three hours or better; when it comes out of the oven take off the fat, and strain the gravy over your beef: garnish with pickles, and serve it up.
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