beef baked in a barrel

How To Make beef baked in a barrel

• 1

  Cut tops from pineapples.
• 2

  With a sharp knife, hollow out fruit, leaving about 3/4 inch pineapple on sides and bottom. (Be careful not to cut through outside shells.)
• 3

  Dice 1 cup pineapple. (Use remainder for salad or dessert.)
• 4

  Cook onions and garlic in cooking fat in large frying-pan 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• 5

  Add ground beef, salt, ginger, seasoned salt and pepper.
• 6

  Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until ground beef begins to brown.
• 7

  Warm brandy in small pan over low heat, ignite and pour over beef mixture, lifting pan from heat and shaking until flame dies.
• 8

  Continue cooking for 8 to 10 minutes.
• 9

  Remove from heat; add 1 cup diced pineapple, orange segments and mandarin liqueur, stirring carefully to mix.
• 10

  Fill pineapple shells (barrels) with beef and fruit mixture.
• 11

  Place filled fruit upright in foil lined pan.
• 12

  Bake in a 350 oven for 35 minutes.
• 13

  Meanwhile remove stems from mushrooms, slightly hollowing out caps.
• 14

  Cook caps in butter in small frying-pan about 3 minutes.
• 15

  Curl up each pimiento strip and place in mushroom cap.
• 16

  To serve, set both \"barrels\" on warm platter, spoon beef mixture over rice on individual dinner plates and garnish each serving with 3 stuffed mushroom caps.
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