Beef a la Mode

Ingredients

• Round of beef, eight pounds
• table spoonful cloves
• allspice
• cinnamon
• seven carots
• five turnips
• half pint of water
• half pint sherry

Method

1. 1

   Lard the beef and bind it with muslin.

2. 2

   Boil and cut carrots and turnips, then place them with spices in the beef.

3. 3

   Bake slowly for three hours, adding more vegetables and sherry in the last hour.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 11 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Landmarks club cook book (1903) by The Landmarks club, Los Angeles, Calif., page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BEEF A LA MODE. Round of beef, eight pounds; have larded at butcher’s, bind with piece of muslin to keep in place. Have ready table- spoonful cloves, allspice and cinnamon, salt and pepper. Take seven carots, five turnips, boil slightly, cut in strips, drop in spices and put in places where larded a few pieces of garlic. Put in covered baking pan, sprinkle with flour, half pint of water in the pan ; bake slowly three hours. Chop carrots and bits of pork fine, put on top, add in pan whole carrots, onions and turnips, and cook one hour more. Last half hour baste with sherry. Gravy: One turnip, one carrot, half pint water; let boil and thicken slightly; add half pint sherry

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