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Beef Alamode Beef

alamode beef
(from The American Frugal Housewife, by Lydia Maria Child, 1832)

Ingredients:

1 round of beef​
stuffing, made from...​
grated bread​
suet​
sweet herbs​
1/4 oz. nutmeg​
a few cloves​
1 egg yolk​
1 pint claret​
allspice​
cloves​

Instructions:

Tie up a round of beef so as to keep it in shape; make a stuffing of grated bread, suet, sweet herbs, quarter of an ounce of nutmeg, a few cloves pounded, yolk of an egg. Cut holes in the beef, and put in the stuffing, leaving about half the stuffing to be made into balls. Tie the beef up in a cloth, just cover it with water, let it boil an hour and a half; then turn it, and let it boil an hour and a half more; then turn out the liquor, and put some skewers across the bottom of the pot, and lay the beef upon it, to brown; turn it that it may brown on both sides. Put a pint of claret, and some allspice and cloves, into the liquor, and boil some balls made of the stuffing in it.​
 
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