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How to Corn Beef

This recipe uses saltpetre, which should be handled with care.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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How to Corn Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the water, brown sugar, salt, and saltpetre together and skim off any foam.

  2. Submerge the beef in the brine for 10 days to 2 weeks.

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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