Pressed Beef
Ingredients
Directions
Remove the bones from the brisket, flank, and ribs.
Season the meat with coarse sea salt and your preferred spices.
Cover the meat and let it sit for about a week.
Boil the meat slowly until tender.
Remove the meat from the pot and press it under heavy weights until cold.
Slice the pressed beef thinly to serve.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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