Recipe - Paprika Beef Roll

2 Round Steaks; * see note
Salt And Pepper
Paprika
One fourth pound Mushrooms; cut or sliced up
1 Onion; cut or sliced up
Pimiento
Bread Crumbs
One half cup Melted Butter Or Bacon
Drippings
1 tablespoon Boiling Water
1 Egg
Stuffed Olives
One fourth cup Butter Or Bacon Drippings
6 Whole Mushrooms
3 small Whole Onions
1 cup Red Wine

*3 pounds total.

Pound steaks until thin, rub in salt, pepper, and plenty of paprika.
Overlap steaks on meat board, making one large steak. Spread with a layer
of cut or sliced up mushrooms and a layer of thinly cut or sliced up onions. Add pimiento.
Cover with finely rolled bread crumbs.

With beater, combine: One half cup melted butter or bacon drippings, boiling
water, and egg. Immediately dribble this mixture over bread crumbs.

Arrange stuffed olives in a row on long side of steak. Roll the meat around
olives. Tie roll firmly. Salt and pepper the outside. Brown in One fourth cup
butter or drippings in roaster or deep earthenware baker.

Place whole mushrooms and onions into roaster, and sprinkle all lightly
with salt, pepper and paprika. Add 1 cup of red wine. Roast meat in 350 °
oven for about two hours. Serve hot or cold.

Serves 6

Source: "Mountain Measures" Junior League of Charleston, WV ed. 1974

billspa@icanect.net

Recipe by: Mrs. Henry E. Payne, III Posted to EATL Digest by Bill Spalding
billspa@ICANECT.NET on Aug 2, 1997