A La Mode Beef

Ingredients

• 18 to 20 pounds of beef round
• 1 pound of bacon fat or corned pork
• Beef bone marrow
• 1/4 pound beef suet
• 2 bundles of herbs, parsley, thyme, and onions all finely chopped
• 2 large bunches of sweet marjoram and sweet basil
• 2 large nutmegs
• 1/2 ounce of cloves
• 1/2 ounce of mace
• 1 tablespoon of salt
• 2 glasses of Madeira wine (1/2 cup)

Directions

1. Remove the bone from the meat, fasten the opening with skewers, and tie the meat all around with tape (string).
2. Rub meat with salt all over.
3. Chop the marrow and beef suet together.
4. Grind 2 nutmegs into a powder.
5. Finely chop herbs
6. Pick the basil and marjoram from stalks and rub into a powder, making 4 tablespoons of each.
7. Blend all the seasonings together, adding salt and pepper.
8. Cut bacon fat into 2 inch long pieces.
9. Cut close, deep incisions all over the round of beef.
10. Put a little wine in each hole then add the season into each incision followed by a slip of bacon, be sure to press the bacon in hard, and add more season.
11. Put meat into a deep baking dish, pour the remainder of wine over it, cover and let stand till next morning. 
12. In the morning add some water into the dish and garnish with parsley, bake or stew in oven for at least 12 hours. 
13. Enjoy it while it is hot.

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Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Lacey Dupre
Louisiana Anthology
March 25, 2022