Beef A-LA-mode

Ingredients

• 1 round of beef
• 1 pound fat salt pork
• ½ pint vinegar
• 3-4 minced shallots or button onions
• 2 teaspoons prepared mustard
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon cloves
• ½ teaspoon allspice
• ½ teaspoon black pepper
• 1 bunch sweet herbs, minced
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• bread crumbs

Directions

1. Remove the bone from the beef and trim away tough bits. Set aside for soup stock.

2. Bind the beef into a symmetrical shape with a strip of muslin, stitching the ends together.

3. Cut the fat salt pork into strips as thick as your middle finger and long enough to fit the beef.

4. In a saucepan, heat the vinegar and season with shallots, mustard, nutmeg, cloves, allspice, black pepper, minced herbs, and brown sugar.

5. Simmer for 5 minutes, then boil briefly and pour hot over the pork in a deep dish.

6. Let it all stand until cold, then remove the pork and mix the remaining liquid with enough bread crumbs to form a stiff mixture.