Pink meat, such as rare beef, will flood a board with blood if carved too soon.

Roast for 25 minutes for medium rare beef — it should feel a little springy when lightly pressed.

Or a slab of rare beef without the grated horseradish?

I like to mince a clove of garlic into some crème fraîche with a squeeze of lemon as a light, fresh sauce for rare beef.

With the rare beef salad, the beef was rare but it was also underhung and tasted of pale, pink, prep-school face cloth and, at 10, was expensive.