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Boiled Corn Beef

A boiled corned beef prepared by cooking in water for hours, optionally served cold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Boiled Corn Beef

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. If the beef is very salty, wash it and soak it in cold water.

Cook

  1. Place the beef in boiling water and cook slowly for 6 hours.

  2. If serving cold, let the beef sit in the cooking water for 1 to 2 hours.

Press

  1. To press the beef, remove the bones and place it in a flat dish or platter.

  2. Cover with a tin sheet and weigh it down with 2 or 3 bricks, or use a corned beef press.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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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What each ingredient does

Corned beef
Is the main ingredient, cooked slowly in water until tender.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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