Spiced Beef

Ingredients

• twenty pounds of round beef
• three-quarters of a pound of coarse brown sugar
• two ounces of saltpeter
• two ounces of black pepper
• two ounces of allspice
• one small nutmeg
• one blade of mace
• eight cloves
• twelve ounces of dairy salt
• four ounces of pounded juniper berries
• half a pint of water

Method

1. 1

   Rub beef with brown sugar and let stand for 24 hours.

2. 2

   Mix spices with dairy salt and rub into meat daily for three weeks.

3. 3

   Wash in cold water when ready to cook, place in a covered pan with water, and keep covered while cooking.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 20 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Annie Dennis cook book (1905) by Annie E. Dennis, page 80. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Spiced Beef Twenty pounds of round beef ; rub with three-quar- ters of a pound of coarse brown sugar. Let stand in a pan for twenty^four hours. Pound to a powder two ounces of saltpeter, two ounces of black pepper, two ounces of allspice, one small nutmeg, one blade of mace, eight cloves; mix with twelve ounces of dairy salt, four ounces of pounded juniper berries, juice and all. Rub this mixture well into the meat, repeating daily for three weeks. Wash in cold water when ready to cook it ; place in a deep covered pan, as near the size of the meat as possible, and add half a pint of water

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