Manzo alla Certosina (Fillet of Beef)

Ingredients: Fillet of beef or rump steak, bacon, olive oil, salt, anchovies, nutmeg, stock, herbs, garlic.

Put a piece of very soft rump steak or fillet of beef into a stewing pan with two slices of fat bacon and three teaspoonful of the handpicked olive oil; flavor it with salt and a bit of nutmeg. Better cook exposed, and turn the meat over from time to time. When it is fairly browned add an anchovy minced and mixed with chopped herbs, and a small clove of garlic with one cut across it. Then cover the whole with good stock, put the cover on the stewpan, and when it is all sufficiently cooked, remove the grease off the sauce, pass it through a strainer, and pour it over the beef. Leave the garlic in for just five minutes.