Irish Spiced Beef
Ingredients:
20 cloves
2 tsp. ground allspice or cinnamon
6 shallots
2 tsp. prague powder
1 pound kosher salt (coarse)
1 tsp. black pepper
3 tsp. ground mace
7-8 lb. beef
2-3 bay leaves
ground nutmeg
2 pints guinness stout.
Procedure:
Grind all dry ingredients and mix. Add finely chopped shallots. Rinse beef and place in plastic or glass container(avoid iron). Take 1 seventh of the spice/salt mixture and rub it all over the meat. Place meat back into container, cover and set out on the back porch or in a cool spot-if too warm out place in fridge. Each day for seven days rub the meat with one seventh of the mixture, turn over and re-cover. Leave the liquid that forms with the meat. At the end of seven days place meat and liquid into a big pot -add water to top up and cover the meat and boil until the meat is tender.(a fork should just barely be able to lift up strands of meat-don’t over do it!) Change water adding clean water and boil for another 30 minutes. Then add vegetable, large carrots,onions, and potatoes- cook until almost done. Add two pints Guinness Stout and boil for another 10-20 minutes. You can eat this hot or leave to cool overnight-place meat into colander with weight on it and plate or dish under it.
