Spiced beef loaf

Name: Spiced beef loaf
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: minced beef; fat mild bacon; dried basil; ground allspice; salt; peppercorns; clove; garlic; sherry; red wine; wine vinegar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Essential Elizabeth David (Christmas)

By Elizabeth David

Published 2025

About

As an alternative to the Spiced Beef recipe, this terrine is a perfect centrepiece for a light picnic-style lunch on Christmas day. It’s ideal with one of the soups below.

Method

Ingredients are 1.6 kg/3½ lb of fairly finely minced beef bought from a reliable butcher, 125