My Mother’s Sunday Roast Beef

This is the roast beef that caused so much consternation on Sundays because my mother always cooked it very rare, the way Italians tend to like it. I have allowed 70 minutes roasting time, but you can increase or decrease this as you prefer, depending on how you like your meat cooked. Remove the joint from the fridge 1 hour before cooking to bring it to room temperature. Roasting the meat on a rack creates convection in the oven so that you do not need to turn the joint, and the meat is pla