Name: Boiled Corned Beef
Ingredients: 1 piece of corned beef; cold water (if very salty) or boiling water (if slightly corned); a board and a weight (like a stone or flat-irons)

Boiled Corned Beef

Ingredients

1 piece of corned beef
cold water (if very salty) or boiling water (if slightly corned)
a board and a weight (like a stone or flat-irons)

Directions

Prepare

Wash the corned beef well.
Place the corned beef in a pot.
Cover with cold water if very salty, or with boiling water if slightly corned.

Boil

Skim often while boiling.
Boil for at least 30 minutes for every pound of meat.

Shape and serve

If serving cold, leave the meat in the cooking liquid until nearly cold.
Shape the meat in an earthen dish.
Place a board on top.
Weigh it down with a stone or flat-irons.

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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