Recipe - Saurbraten--Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking

1 Chuck or pot roast, 2" thick
Vinegar (this means ...as ne
2 Large onions, cut or sliced up
4 Slices of bacon
1 tablespoon Whole cloves
1 teaspoon Whole alspice
1 ds Sugar

Place meat in nonreactive dish or bowland cover with wolution of half
vinegar and half water, put in two large onions, cut or sliced up . Do this two or
three days before the meat is wanted. On the day before it is to be cooked,
cut 4 slices of bacon into 1" pieces and chop fine 1 tablespoon of the
onion which has been soaking in the vinegar. Cut holes in themeat 1 or 2
inches apart and stuff bits of the bacon and chopped onion into the holes.
Put the meat back into the solution, add 1 tablespoon whole cloves and 1
teaspoon whole allspice. Bake the meat as a pot roast in part of the
solution, until tender. Use more of the solution, adding sugar to taste, in
making the gravy which will be almost black.

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