English Roast Beef
Ingredients
Directions
Carefully spit the meat, ensuring minimal penetration of the prime meat.
Use a bright and clean spit to avoid staining the meat.
Position the spit along the bones to leave little or no mark.
If desired, use skewers loaded with lead to balance the meat.
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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