Get some nice, lean pork roast (or beef -- this can be made either way). Put it in a roasting pan, and pour over it a cup or more of Guinness (grease the pan first!). Toss in a handful of dried cranberries, sultanas, raisins, and/or dried apricots and about a tablespoon of butter. Roast, covered, at about 400 to 450 degrees (watch it!). When you remove it from the oven, baste it with the liquids and pour off some of the liquid. Recover the meat and let it sit while you reduce the liquid you took off in a sauce pan -- thicken it with butter if you wish, adjust the seasonings with salt and pepper.

Serve.

It's really very good, and you wouldn't believe that Guinness could do it.