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Hunter's Beef, or Spiced Round

To a round of beef weighing twenty-four pounds, take. 3 ounces saltpetre. 3 ounces coarsest sugar. 1 ounce cloves. 1 nutmeg. 1/2 ounce allspice. 3 handfuls salt.

Beat all into the finest powder; allow the beef to hang three or four days; remove the bone, then rub the spices well into it, continuing to do so every two or three days, for two or three weeks.

When to be dressed, dip it in cold water, to take off the loose spices, bind it up tightly and put into a pan with a teacupful water at the bottom. Sprinkle the top of the meat with suet, cover it over with a thick batter, and brown paper over it. Bake five hours.--Mrs. T. C.