Spaghetti-for-the-Gang

Ingredients

• about three or four pounds of solid meat from the round
• A clove of garlic
• a pound of Italian made spaghetti
• a small can of tomato paste
• salt to taste
• grated Roman cheese

Method

1. 1

   Cut pockets in the meat and insert bacon or herbs.

2. 2

   Grease a deep iron skillet and cook the meat, adding water as needed.

3. 3

   Boil spaghetti in salted water for twenty minutes, then drain.

4. 4

   Add tomato paste to the meat gravy and serve over spaghetti with grated cheese.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Stag Cook Book: Written for Men by Men (1922) by Carroll Mac Sheridan, page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPAGHETTI-FOR-THE-GANG Many a time as a very small boy I watched my distin- guished Piedmontese grandfather grandly direct the cook. This is the way our spaghetti sauce was prepared. Buy about three or four pounds of solid meat from the round, cut thick. Ask for the "eye of the beef." It is inex- pensive. Cut little pockets in it and insert bits of fat bacon in some. In others stuff sage, thjrme, parsley and bay leaf with salt and pepper to taste. Sometimes I spread thinly with mustard, the prepared sort ; covering the top. A clove of garlic tucked in with the seasoning goes well, if you have Wop ancestry. Pale people use onions. But surely one or the other. Grease well a deep iron skillet with iron top, the pot- roast utensil. When the gravy begins to drip add a little water, but not much. The steam makes the meat tender and brings out all the flavors in the little pockets. Baste from time to time just to get the aroma of the sinmiering mess and sharpen your appetite. Take a little wire and jab it in the roast after about an hour and twenty minutes and you'll find out whether it is tender and juicy enough. Put the big pot on and get your water boiling fast. Add a good sized kitchen spoon of salt. Better salt the [146] .J WRITTEN FOR MEN BY MEN water to taste. Throw in a pound of Italian made spaghetti . . . the Farina spaghetti. It requires a certain kind of wheat to make good macaroni. Boil for twenty minutes. Drain off water. To the rich gravy you will find the roast swimming in add a small can of tomato paste, stirring in slowly. As this is poured over the spaghetti add grated Roman cheese

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