Recipe - Moms Marinated Beef (Svickova)

1 lg Onion
3 Stalks celery
2 Carrots
1 tablespoon Pickling spice; make a
sachet
One fourth cup Vinegar
1 One half cup Water
1 tablespoon Salt
6 pound Beef tenderloin or rump
roast
6 sl Bacon
4 tablespoon Flour
1 pt Sour cream; ( I use nonfat)

Source: Roberta Brisson

To make the brine, boil onion, celery, carrots, pickling spice, vinegar and
water together. Let cool.

Cut any fat from beef. Slice slits in the beef with a sharp pointed knife
and stuff bacon into the slits. Place the beef in a deep dish and pour the
cold brine over the meat. Make sure the meat is covered. Marinate in
refrigerator two days up to a week (depending upon freshness of meat). The
longer the time, the more tender the meat and better flavored.

Remove meat from brine and reserve the brine. Place in roasting on rack to
collect pan drippings. Bake at 350 degrees F. until done. Pour the reserved
brine into a saucepan and bring to boil. Remove the sachet of pickling
spices.

When beef is cooked and browned, remove beef from roasting pan. Add boiled
brine to the roasting pan to collect pan drippings. Bring this mixture to a
boil, scrapping spices and pan drippings. Remove and let cool to remove all
fat (my mother never did this, but I do, nor did she use fatfree sour
cream). Slice beef (My mother cut or sliced up it thin, but the restaurants cut or sliced up
the tenderloin bigger than 1/4inch slices and not quite 1/2slices. (My
mother never used tenderloin for this dish. She use rolled beef roast or a
rump.). Reheat brine mixture. Add flour to sour cream. Gradually add sour
cream mixture to the hot brine mixture, slowly so your don’t curdle the
gravy. You can add more vinegar if you like it on the tart side. My sister
always did. Serve with potato dumplings or bread dumplings.

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 634 by QueenBerta@aol.com on Jan
29, 1998