Marinated Beef

Ingredients

• a fillet of beef
• four hours
• vinegar, red wine, and water in equal parts
• some small onions
• some cloves
• a few bay leaves
• two or three pieces of ginger
• branches of thyme, marjoram, and any other herbs
• a little gin
• two spoonfuls of flour
• some boiled milk
• some butter
• some minced anchovies
• some capers

Method

1. 1

   Sprinkle beef with salt for 4 hours.

2. 2

   Make a pickle with vinegar, wine, water, onions, cloves, lemon, bay leaves, ginger, and herbs.

3. 3

   Boil and pour over beef for 3 days.

4. 4

   On the fourth day, lard with anchovies, place in a pot with bacon, cover with pickle, and cook.

5. 5

   Make sauce with flour, milk, butter, anchovies, and pickle, strain and pour over beef.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soyer's standard cookery (1912) by Nicolas Soyer, page 112. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Marinated Beef. Sprinkle well a fillet of beef with salt and let it stand for four hours. Now make a pickle of vinegar, red wine, and water in equal parts, some small onions stuck with cloves, slices of lemon, a few bay leaves, two or three pieces of ginger, and branches of thyme, marjoram, and any other herbs that are liked. Some people add a little gin, but this is not neces- sary. Boil this pickle and pour it over the fillet of beef, which must be left in it for three days. Each day the pickle is again boiled up and poured over the fillet. On the fourth day remove the fillet and lard it with an- chovies cut into thin strips, and then place it in a stewpan or earthenware cooking pot upon a layer of slices of fat bacon. Cover with more slices of fat bacon, moisten with a little of the pickle, and then place a sheet of buttered paper over the whole. While cooking add from time to time a very little of the pickle. When the fillet is done make a sauce by mixing two spoonfuls of flour with a little boiled milk, adding some butter, minced anchovies, and a little of the pickle. Cook this over the fire, strain, add some capers

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