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To Roast Meat

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Roast Meat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the meat by seasoning it well with salt and then dredging it in flour.

  2. Place the meat on a rack in a pan.

  3. When the flour is brown, pour boiling water into the pan until it's about 1 inch deep.

  4. Baste and dredge the meat frequently.

  5. Once cooked, transfer the meat to a heated platter.

  6. Skim the fat from the pan, place it on the stove, and bring it to a boil.

  7. Stir in the thickening and boil again.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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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