Delicious Roast Beef
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat the baking pan until hot.
Place the beef in the pan and let it brown well.
Turn the beef over and sear the sides thoroughly.
Bake the beef in the pan until done, basting as necessary.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Beef
- Browns on the outside during searing, building savory flavor, then cooks through to the finished texture.
The step that matters
Browning the beef before baking. A well-browned surface develops deep flavor through the Maillard reaction, which needs a hot, dry pan surface. Crowding or a pan that is not hot enough causes the beef to steam, leaving it pale and less flavorful.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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