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Recipe for Danny’s easy, tasty, rare roast rib of beef
Years ago during the great BSE scare in the late 1990s I gave up eating beef for a year. I’d never been a big fan of burgers but rare roast beef was an all time treat for me. Bone in beef was believed to be an even bigger no-no back then. People and cows were dying from this disease. I also gave up butter for a few years before the beef boycott. Until one happy day I saw an advertising hoarding on my way out of London. “Welcome back to butter!” It announced. I drove home with a pit stop at the dairy section of the local supermarket. I...
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