Season lightly, brush over with oil or melted butter and lay in buttered
bag. Seal and roast for half an hour. Take up on a hot platter, season,
add a little melted butter mixed with finely chopped parsley and serve
hot with baked or mashed potatoes. A tomato sauce may go with the steaks
or a brown gravy made from beef stock. A pleasant change in the
appearance of Hamburg steak can be effected by shaping it to look like
lamb chops. When these are bag broiled with a bit of macaroni in each
end to simulate the chop bone they can be arranged to stand on a bed of
parsley stacked against a pretty bowl containing tomato sauce or stewed
tomato, a spoonful of which is to be served with each portion. The bed
on which the chops are to rest may be mashed potato or peas, if
preferred to the parsley.
=Pot Roast.=--While this does not eliminate washing the pot, the juices
and flavor of the beef are so conserved that instead of the usual dry
pot-roast it is moist and tender and so well worth the trouble.
Peel and slice a good sized onion and brown in a round bottomed iron pot
with a piece of beef suet. Wash a four or five pound piece of bottom
round, place in the pot without any water and brown quickly on all
sides, turning it without piercing with a fork. When very brown add a
small cup of water, push it back and let simmer for one hour, turning
frequently. Season and cook for ten minutes longer, then place it in a
well-greased bag, seal and put in a hot oven on a broiler, adding about
a cupful of the liquid in which it was cooking, before sealing. Reduce
the heat of the oven after ten minutes and cook an hour and a half to
two hours according to size. Potatoes may be peeled and browned in the
gravy left in the pot. When done, the liquid in the bag should be added
to that in the pot and thickened for gravy, first skimming off the fat
if too rich.
=Rib Roast of Beef.=--Grease the roast lightly with drippings or
vegetable oil, season with pepper, but not with salt, dust lightly with
flour and place in well-greased bag, seal, and place in a hot oven, at
the end of fifteen minutes, reduce the heat one-half and continue
cooking for half an hour longer in case of a three pound roast or for a
seven pound one, a little over an hour.
=Roast Round of Beef in Paper Bag.=--Get three or four pounds of beef
from top round, asking the butcher for a high chunky piece--not a
slab--from the tenderest, juiciest part. Have him tie it up securely and
add a piece of suet. Well grease the bag inside. Season and flour the
meat, place a small piece of suet on top, insert in bag, fasten with
paper clips, and put on a broiler in a hot oven, reducing the heat after
about five minutes. Allow fifteen minutes for each pound. It will be a
rich brown on the outside but rare and juicy. With an exceptionally
sharp carving knife the meat should be cut in very thin, appetizingly
rare and tender slices.
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