Boiled Brisket of Beef, Stuffed

 

Ingredients

• One brisket 
• Bread crumbs 
• Pepper  
• Butter 
• Salt 
• Sweet herbs 
• Mace 
• One onion 
• One egg

Directions

1. Before boiling the beef make a dressing of breadcrumbs, pepper, butter, salt, sweet herbs, mace, and an onion, all chopped fine and mixed with a beaten egg. 
2. Put the dressing between the fat and the lean of the beef; sew it up to keep the dressing in. 
3. Flour a cloth, tie the beef up tight in it, and let it boil five or six hours for a piece weighing about eight pounds.

Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Wes Thibodeaux
Louisiana Anthology
January 5, 2021