American Southern

Best way to Roast Beef

Name: Best way to Roast Beef
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 90 min
Total time: 110 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 1 each beef; 1 each salt; 1 each pepper; 1 each flour

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 37. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

20 minPrep Time

90 minCook Time

8Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

1 each beef
1 each salt
1 each pepper
1 each flour

Instructions

1
Wash in warm water your beef, then rub in salt and pepper, and dry flour until a moisture rises on the meat; put it into a dripping pan, setting it on a brick in the oven, keeping the bottom simmering, the top with a quick heat, turning the roast often till done.
2
The juice that flows from the meat will cook it always sweet and tender.

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