Saturday Beefcake

In order to lessen the confusion, here is a pilfered and doctored recipe for beefcake from the UK. Less you confuse it with tube steak:

Spiced Beefcake

Spiced beefcake is a traditional meat loaf recipe using minced beef.

Ingredients:
400 g fairly finely minced lean beef -- about a pound
225 g minced bacon -- about a half pound
1 minced, medium-sized onion
75 g minced mushrooms (about a cup)
handful of mixed powdered mace, cloves, cayenne, allspice, pepper
sea salt to taste
750 ml red wine, port or sherry
the whites of two eggs for binding


1. Mix all the ingredients together except the egg whites and let the mixture marinate an hour or two. Then mix in the whites.
2. Preheat the oven to 160°C (325°F). Pack the mixture into a baking dish of any shape. Bake it, uncovered, in a bain-marie for two hours. This definition from busycooks.about.com -- "A bain marie is a utensil and a cooking technique. One container with food to be cooked is placed in another, larger pan containing water that is at the simmering point. This method of cooking surrounds the food with very gentle heat and is used for cooking delicate dishes like custards or white sauces, or melting chocolates." While the above recipe could hardly be called delicate. This method is very good at getting it well cooked uniformly.
3. If you intend to eat it hot, cook it with a weight on top or it will become impossible to slice.
4. Serve it with the juices that have come from the meat, fat removed.

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and of course Column's galleries of pictures, pilfered and otherwise, aim to satisfy the hunger in you.