Name: Roast Beef
Ingredients: 1 joint (about 3 pounds / 1.5 kg) of good quality beef rib or rolled rib beef; Extra beef bones (optional); ½ cup sifted all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon (5 ml) salt (rock salt preferred); 1 pinch of ground black pepper (as much as can be held between the finger/thumb); ¼ cup olive oil or other good cooking oil; 2 cups water; 1 onion; 1 glass of full-bodied red wine; 1 teaspoon (45 ml) red jam (mix with a little water and strain out the seeds if using raspberry or blackberry); 1 pinch of nutmeg; 1 teaspoon (5 ml) Lea and Perrin's Worcestershire sauce and/or Maggi stock cube; 1 glass of red wine; 3 lb (1.5 kg) potatoes (preferably Maris Piper); 1 tablespoon (15 ml) all-purpose flour; 2 tablespoons (30 ml) goose fat; Yorkshire pudding; Roast parsnips; Boiled or steamed green beans; Cabbage with a little bacon; Horseradish sauce or creamed horseradish; English mustard (preferably mixed from dry ground mustard. Colemans in the yellow tin is still the best)

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