Off-Oven Roast Beef

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   1. Remove roast from refrigerator. Preheat oven to 500 degrees.

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   2. In a small bowl, mix together salt, pepper, garlic, olive oil and red-pepper flakes to create a kind of paste. Rub this all over the roast. Place beef in a roasting pan or cast-iron skillet, fat-side up, and put in oven. Cook undisturbed for 5 minutes per pound.

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   3. Turn off oven. Do not open oven door. Leave roast to continue cooking, undisturbed, for two hours.

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   4. After two hours, remove roast from oven. Slice and serve alongside, ideally, a watercress salad, some skillet-fried potatoes and a small tureen of Henry Bain sauce.

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