Beef a la Mode

Ingredients

• six pounds of round beef
• vinegar or claret wine
• one turnip
• one carrot
• a small piece of corned pork
• whole cloves
• sweet marjoram
• thyme

Method

1. 1

   Soak beef overnight, parboil turnip and carrot.

2. 2

   Tie beef tightly, insert vegetables and dressing into gashes.

3. 3

   Boil in water for four hours, turning occasionally.

4. 4

   Make gravy from the pot liquor.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooks in clover (1889), page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Beef a la Mode. — Soak six pounds of round beef in vinegar or claret wine over night. Prepare and ! parboil one turnip and one carrot. Take the beef out ! of the vinegar or wine, and tie up tightly with cord. Cut deep gashes in both sides ; into each gash insert pieces of carrots and turnips, and onions chopped fine, also a little bread dressing — as for poultry, well seasoned with pepper and salt ; also insert in alter- nate gashes a small piece of corned pork. Spice with whole cloves, sweet marjoram and thyme

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