Not Your Grandmother's Sauerbraten

Total Time: 7 hrs 5 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 7 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 lbs boneless bottom round roast
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup vinegar
• 1 cup ketchup
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 teaspoons onion powder
• 1 tablespoon pickling spices
• 12 ginger snaps, finely crushed
• cheesecloth
• cotton string

Recipe

• 1 make a bundle with the cheesecloth and the pickling spices, placing pickling spices in a square of cheesecloth and tying it off with cotton string. mix water, vinegar, ketchup, sugar, and onion powder in a large crock pot (the one i use is a 6-quart model). add the bundle of pickling spices.
• 2 put meat in fat side up in crock. cook until meat is tender (low for 12 hours or high for 7-8 hours).
• 3 remove spice bundle and throw away. do not discard the juices nor turn off the crockpot. take meat out and allow to cool.
• 4 add 12 crumbled ginger snaps to juices that remain in the crockpot and allow to thicken.
• 5 slice the meat and return to sauce in the crockpot.