Roast Beef
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Roast Beef

Ingredients

  • 3 1/2 pound rump roast of beef
  • 2 teaspoon salt
  • 4 tablespoon flour
  • 1/4 cup hot water

Directions

  1. Roll the roast in the flour and set on a rack in a dripping pan.
  2. Place in a hot oven and sear over all sides.
  3. Sprinkle the salt over the meat and add the hot water.
  4. Cover the meat and cook in a moderate oven.
  5. Baste every fifteen minutes.
  6. Allow fifteen minutes a pound for a rare roast, and twenty minutes a pound for a well done roast.
  7. When properly done, the outside fat is crisp and brown.

Other Information

Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron

Source: A Thousand Ways To Please a Husband (1917-01-01)

Category: Meat, Main Dish

Ingredients: beef, salt, flour, water

Equipment: measuring cups, measuring spoons, rolling pin, stove

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