RENATE'S UNIQUE BUTTERMILK MARINATED SAUERBRATEN

Steps:

• Marinate Roast in buttermilk marinade as follows:.
• Buttermilk enough to COVER whole roast.
• Add to buttermilk:.
• 12 whole pepper corns.
• 2 bay leaves, crushed and broken.
• 2 large onions, sliced.
• Place roast and marinade covered in refrigerator for 3-5 days. Let marinade work and flavor the meat all that time.
• At end of 3-5 days, remove meat from buttermilk marinade.
• Discard marinade and rinse meat.
• In a dutch oven, brown roast on all sides.
• When meat is finished browning, make a new fresh batch of almost identical buttermilk marinade, but which will now serve as the cooking sauce.
• 1 1/2 cups raisins.
• 12 peppercorns.
• 2 bay leaves.
• 4 cups of water.
• 2 cups fresh buttermilk.
• Mix sauce ingredients together and place around toast.
• Place roast and sauce in covered dutch oven or casserole pan with tin foil to cover/.
• In oven heated to 275-300 degrees, slow cook the roast until it is done and tender.
• Once during cooking (about 2 -3 hours, remove cover and turn roast over so that the other half of the roast rests in the sauce. Re-cover and continue to bake.
• When meat is done, remove from pan to a platter and slice into slices.
• Take pan drippings (buttermilk sauce) and thicken with enough corn starch to make sauce the consistency of thick gravy (start with 1/3 cup corn starch dissolved in 2/3 cup water).
• Pour gravy over the meat slices on a serving platter. Serve accompanied by your favorite German side dishes, such as potato pancakes and sweet and sour cabbage.