Roast Beef

Ingredients

• Six pounds of sirloin beef
• one-half tablespoonful of salt
• one teaspoonful of pepper
• one ounce of butter
• one-half ounce of flour
• one-half pint of second stock

Method

1. 1

   Put the meat into a dry oven-pan and then into a hot oven for ten minutes.

2. 2

   Allow the oven to cool a little and continue roasting with moderate heat, giving fifteen minutes to each pound of meat and fifteen minutes over.

3. 3

   Baste frequently with the natural gravy.

4. 4

   After roasting, sprinkle with salt and prepare the gravy with the stock and butter.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of cooking (1880) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Roast Beef. — Six pounds of sirloin beef, one-half tablespoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of pepper, one ounce of butter, one-half ounce of flour, one-half pint of second stock

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