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Meat Hints

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Meat Hints

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat the pan until very hot.

  2. Spread the grease over the bottom of the pan.

  3. Quickly add the meat to the pan.

  4. Do not pierce the meat with a fork while frying.

  5. Use a fork to turn the meat by lifting it from the fibrous part.

  6. Cook the meat thoroughly on one side before turning.

  7. For roasting beef, allow 15 to 18 minutes per pound.

  8. For roasting veal, allow 18 minutes per pound.

  9. For roasting mutton, allow 20 minutes per pound.

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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