Saurebraten and Gingersnaps
Recipe
- Title:
- Saurebraten and Gingersnaps
- Categories:
- Meats, Cookies
- Yield:
- 10 servings
Ingredients
- 4 lb Rump Roast; Beef, Boneless
- 1/2 c Cider Vinegar
- 2
- Onions; Thinly Sliced
- 1/4 c Vegetable Oil
- 8
- Peppercorns
- 1/2 ts Salt
- 4
- Cloves; Whole
- 2 c Water; boiling
- 1
- Bay Leaf
- 10
- Gingersnaps
- 1 c White Vinegar; Mild
- 1/2 c Sour Cream
- 1 c Water
- 1 tb Unbleached Flour
Directions
- Place the beef roast in a deep ceramic or glass bowl.
- Add onions, peppercorns, cloves, and bay leaf.
- Pour white vinegar and cider vinegar over the meat; chill, covered, for 4 days.
- Turn meat twice each day.
- Remove the meat from the marinade, dry it well with paper towels, and strain the marinade into a bowl.
- Reserve onions and 1 cup marinade.
- In a Dutch oven brown the meat on all sides in hot vegetable oil.
- Sprinkle meat with salt.
- Pour boiling water around the meat.
- sprinkle in crushed gingersnaps, and simmer covered for 1 1/2 hours.
- Turn often.
- Add 1 cup of reserved marinade and cook meat 2 hours or more, until tender.
- Remove the meat and keep it warm.
- Strain the cooking juices into a large saucepan.
- In a small bowl mix sour cream with flour.
- Stir it into the cooking juices and cook, stirring, until sauce is thickened and smooth.
- Slice meat in 1/4 inch slices; add to hot gravy.
- Arrange meat on a heated plater and pour extra sauce over it.
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