Corned Beef

Ingredients

• Bone the brisket
• soak in water fifteen or twenty minutes
• Rub brown sugar over the meat
• season with pepper and salt
• Dissolve a piece of saltpetre the size of a bean
• in a quart of boiling water
• Turn meat daily for five days

Method

1. 1

   Soak the brisket in water, rub with brown sugar, season, and place in a deep dish.

2. 2

   Cover with salt and press for twelve hours.

3. 3

   Dissolve saltpetre in boiling water, cool, and pour over the meat.

4. 4

   Turn daily for five days, then cook in boiling water.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Council cook book (1908), page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Corned Beef. Bone the brisket and then soak in water fifteen or twenty minutes. Rub brown sugar over the meat, season with pepper and salt, and then put in a deep dish. Cover with salt and press for twelve hours. • Dissolve a piece of saltpetre the size of a bean in a quart of boiling water, and when cold pour over the meat. Turn meat daily for five days

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