"CM" > wrote in message
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>> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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>>> "CM" > wrote
>>>
>>>> Anybody got a good way to roast a 4.5lb eye of round roast? When I've
>>>> had them in the past they have been very dry but my wife bought one
>>>> instead of a bottom round...
>>> The only way I have made any round roast like that is
>>> to roast it to rare and slice it as thin as possible. See through.
>>> I'd give it the granulated garlic and salt rub on the outside.
>>>
>>> But then, you probably don't want advice from someone who
>>> doesn't really like round roast.
>>>
>>
>> My mom always made this kind of roast, and it was always tough and nasty.
>> It *looks* like a nice, sliceable roast, at least the shape is nice.
>
> I swear that's why she bought it...it was nicely shaped.

I was going to say that I know that's why my mother bought it! It looked so
pretty on the table! She grew up during the depression, then rationing
during WWII, so I don't think she grew up watching her mother do tender
roasts. She was never good at red meat, and neither was I until recently.