Hunter's Beef, or Spiced Round
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United States
Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
- Curing. Old curing amounts and salts may be unsafe. Use current tested guidance.
Ingredients 10 ingredients
- 3 ounces coarsest sugar
- 3 handfuls salt
- 1 nutmeg
- Beef
- 3 ounces saltpetre
- a teacupful water
- Dip
- ½ ounce allspice
- 1 ounce cloves
- Rub
Cook safely
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Method
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- To a round of beef weighing twenty-four pounds, take: 3 ounces saltpetre.
- 3 ounces coarsest sugar.
- 1 ounce cloves.
- 1 nutmeg.
- ½ ounce allspice.
- 3 handfuls salt.
- Beat all into the finest powder;
- allow the beef to hang three or four days;
- remove the bone, then rub the spices well into it, continuing to do so every two or three days, for two or three weeks.
- When to be dressed, dip it in cold water, to take off the loose spices, bind it up tightly and put into a pan with a teacupful water at the bottom.
- Sprinkle the top of the meat with suet, cover it over with a thick batter, and brown paper over it.
- Bake five hours.--Mrs.
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