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Boiled Corn Beef

A simple boiled beef prepared in cold water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Boiled Corn Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the beef well in three or four changes of water.

  2. Place the beef in a pot and cover it with cold water.

  3. Bring the water to a boil.

  4. Allow the beef to boil for fifteen minutes.

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

Beef
Provides the meat that becomes tender and savory as it cooks in the water.

“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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