Spiced Beef
- Ready In:
- 245hrs 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
14-16
ingredients
- 7 lbs very lean bottom round steaks
- 1 cup dark brown sugar, halved
- 1 cup sea salt
- 1⁄3 cup black peppercorns
- 1⁄3 cup juniper berries
- 1⁄3 cup allspice berry
- 1 cup water
directions
- Put beef in a crock with a cover and rub it all over with a ½ cup of the brown sugar.
- Chill.
- Repeat the next day with the remaining ½ cup brown sugar.
- On third day, crush together all three of the spices, add the salt and massage into meat.
- Chill.
- Massage and turn every day for 10 days (this whole process takes about 30 seconds a day).
- When ready to cook; wipe off spices (or keep some on which will make it more pastrami-like).
- Place the meat into a casserole in which it just fits.
- Pour in 1 cup water, put a piece of wax paper under lid, and roast meat at 290F for 5 ½ hours.
- (the'High' setting on most crockpots is at about 300F so, presumably, this could be cooked quite successfully in the crockpot in about the same length of time, maybe slightly less.) Leave beef to cool in juice.
- Take out, wrap in wax paper and put it on a rimmed tray.
- Put another tray or small board over top and weight with about 5 lbs of cans.
- Chill overnight.
- The beef will pack down.
- Slice paper thin to serve with a selection of mustards.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.