Spiced Beef

Ingredients

• A sirloin roast is the best for this purpose
• one teaspoon each of whole clover
• one teaspoon each of alspice
• one teaspoon each of ground sage
• one teaspoon each of thyme
• two tablespoons of butter
• a tablespoon and a half of flour
• about a pint of cold water
• the juice of one lemon

Method

1. 1

   Skewer roast firmly, brown butter in baking pan, work in flour, add water gradually, let boil, season to taste, add lemon juice, put roast in pan with gravy, do not baste for fifteen minutes, then baste frequently.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pennsylvania German cook book (1902) by Keller, J. A. Mrs, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPICED BEEF. A sirloin roast is the best for this pur¬ pose, skewer it firmly in place, and strew over the top of it one teaspoon each of whole clover, alspice and ground sage and thyme, brown two tablespoons of butter in your baking pan. work into this a tablespoon and a half of flour, add by slow degrees about a pint of cold w’ater let it boil up, season to taste and add the juice of one lemon

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