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Pot Roast

From The Baptist cook book (1907).

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From The Baptist cook book (1907), printed page 21, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/baptistcookbook00alba

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Five lb.
  2. beef roast, 1 qt.
  3. boiling water, 1 pod red pepper, 1 tb.
  4. salt.
  5. Place meat in kettle over a good fire, brown on one side, turn and brown on the other.
  6. Now, add the boiling PI ANTFNF *s a Pei"f ect substitute for either hog lard or iLnM I L.ML.
  7. butter;
  8. use about one-half the quantity of "Plantene" as of either.
  9. Observe directions on can.
  10. water, salt and pepper;
  11. cover and cook slowly 15 rnin.
  12. to every lb.
  13. After the water evaporates add no more, as there should be fat enough to finish cooking the meat.
  14. Serve with brown sauce.
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  17. Rawlings.