Beef at Its Best

All choice country collections of meat recipes start with roast beef. In most farm kitchens salt and pepper are the only seasonings added, but garlic is coming up in popularity. Some good cooks slice an onion and, with toothpicks, pin it on the ends and over the top of the meat. They discard the onion when the roast is cooked, but it leaves a faint flavor in the meat and brown gravy.