Recipes

[SueRN]

Recently an old friend asked for a brisket or pot roast recipe. So I sent him what I have been using of late. You know, like we cook today- saute onions, wine,deglazing etc. It set me thinking how simple and good my mother's recipes from the 1950's were. She made her pot roast with very few ingredients and very little liquid. She used a pot she called her Wearever waterless cooker. It was a tall pot that had a lid that set into the rim of the lower half of the pot. I think today if we used a heavy ceramic pot with a heavy lid it would do the same thing.

MOM's POT ROAST

1-5-6 pound rump roast

1 onion quartered

2 bay leaf

2 tabsp worcestershire sauce

1/2 cup water

salt & pepper

Brown meat in pot with 2 tabsp oil till very brown on all sides. Add onion, water,worcestershire sauce, bay leaf and seasonings to pot. Simmer slowly for 3 hours till done. This method and simple ingredients will make a beefy au jus.