Drunken meat

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 1 ½ kg roast beef
• 100 g bacon, streaky
• 2 cans of mushrooms
• 2 cups of cream
• ¾ bottle of brandy
• 2 bottles of red wine, semi-dry
• salt and pepper

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 2 hours; Total time approx. 2 hours 30 minutes

Fry the streaky bacon in a roasting pan. Rub the roast beef with salt and pepper and sear it in the roasting pan in the rendered bacon, turning it several times. Then deglaze the pan alternately with the wine and brandy, simmering gently from time to time. Braise the meat in the covered roasting pan in the oven for 1 3/4 hours. About 1/2 hour before the end of cooking, add the mushrooms and their stock to the roasting pan. After the cooking time is up, remove the meat from the roasting pan and thicken the sauce with the cream, then season again with salt and pepper. If necessary, reduce the sauce slightly beforehand or thicken with a sauce thickener, etc. Also ideal with roast beef. Goes well with baguette and red wine.