Spiced beef for Christmas

Name: Spiced beef for Christmas
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 180 g/6 oz, sea or rock salt; 180 g/6 oz, sea or rock salt; 150–180 g/5–6 oz, light brown Barbados or other brown cane sugar; 30 g/1 oz, saltpetre (see note. Jn); 150–180 g/5–6 oz, light brown Barbados or other brown cane sugar; 30 g/1 oz, juniper berries; 60 g/2 oz, juniper berries; 30 g/1 oz, allspice berries (also known as pimento and Jamaica pepper. To be bought from the same shops as the juniper berries); 90 g/3 oz, light brown Barbados or other brown cane sugar; 90 g/3 oz, light brown Barbados or other brown cane sugar; 30 g/1 oz, allspice berries (also known as pimento and Jamaica pepper. To be bought from the same shops as the juniper berries); 60 g/2 oz, black peppercorns; 30 g/1 oz, allspice berries (also known as pimento and Jamaica pepper. To be bought from the same shops as the juniper berries); 30 g/1 oz, allspice berries (also known as pimento and Jamaica pepper. To be bought from the same shops as the juniper berries); 15 g/½ oz, allspice berries (also known as pimento and Jamaica pepper. To be bought from the same shops as the juniper berries); 15 g/½ oz, allspice berries (also known as pimento and Jamaica pepper. To be bought from the same shops as the juniper berries); 15 g/½ oz, allspice berries (also known as pimento and Jamaica pepper. To be bought from the same shops as the juniper berries); 15 g/½ oz, allspice berries (also known as pimento and Jamaica pepper. To be bought from the same shops as the juniper berries); 125 g/4 oz, sea or rock salt; 15 g/½ oz, saltpetre (see note. Jn); 30 g/1 oz, black peppercorns; 125 g/4 oz, sea or rock salt

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Difficulty
Easy

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Essential Elizabeth David (Christmas)

By Elizabeth David

Published 2025

About

Spiced beef, even with its 10-day spicing experience, is the ultimate Elizabeth David Christmas fare. Cut in super thin slices and served with Oxford sauce, it gives a sense of a medieval castle banquet. I have a lifelong affection for this dish as it was always the star offering in the Christmas hamper Elizabeth David brought around to our house. All us children devoured this brown paper-wrapped parcel with its spicy outer layer, giving it no more than 24 hours in the larder even though

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Europe
United Kingdom
Main course
Mediterranean

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