Mrs Beetons Meat Recipes Revisited
Rolled Beef
(To eat like Hare)
About 2.27kg (5lb) Sirloin (inside fillet)
2 glasses Port Wine
2 glasses Vinegar
Forcemeat
1 tsp Ground Allspice
Take the inside of a large sirloin.
Soak it in 1 glass of port wine and 1 glass of vinegar, mixed and let it stand for 2 days.
Spread the forcemeat on the meat and tie it up securely.
Roast basting with 1 glass each of port wine and vinegar, with which mix a teaspoonful of ground allspice.
Serve, with a good gravy in the dish and redcurrant jelly.
Time: A piece of 5 lbs. about 1 ½ hour before a brisk fire.
Sufficient for 4 persons.
Seasonable at any time.
ROLLED BEEF, to eat like Hare
646. INGREDIENTS - About 5 lbs. of the inside of the sirloin, 2 glasses of port wine, 2 glasses of vinegar, a small quantity of forcemeat (No. 417), 1 teaspoonful of pounded allspice.
Mode - Take the inside of a large sirloin, soak it in 1 glass of port wine and 1 glass of vinegar, mixed, and let it remain for 2 days. Make a forcemeat by recipe No. 417, lay it on the meat, and bind it up securely. Roast it before a nice clear fire, and baste it with 1 glass each of port wine and vinegar, with which mix a teaspoonful of pounded allspice. Serve, with a good gravy in the dish, and send red-currant jelly to table with it.
Time - A piece of 5 lbs. about 1-1/2 hour before a brisk fire.
Average cost, for this quantity, 5s. 4d.
Sufficient for 4 persons.
Seasonable at any time.
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