Spiced beef with tangy apricot and almond chutney - Irish Beef

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 – 3 kgs eye of the round, topside or silverside Irish beef
• 75 g brown sugar
• 25 g black peppercorns
• 12 g allspice berries
• 25 g juniper berries
• 12 g ground cloves
• 12 g salt
• 12 g saltpetre
• 450 g dried apricots, chopped
• 225 g brown sugar
• 1 onion, chopped
• 500 ml wine vinegar
• 1 cooking apple, chopped
• 2 tbsp fresh root ginger, grated
• 1/2 tbsp coriander seeds, toasted and crushed
• 75 g almonds, blanched and roughly chopped
• dash of Tabasco sauce
• pinch of salt