Corned Beef

Servings: 1
Ingredients:

4 qt Hot water
2 c  Coarse salt
1/4 c  Sugar
2 tb Pickling spice
1 1/2 ts Saltpeter or sodium nitrate

5 lb Piece of beef brisket *

3 Cloves garlic

Weight meat to keep it submerged, and cover pot.

* or tongue which has been placed in a deep enameled pot or stoneware
jar.

Cure in refrigerator 3 weeks, turning meat every 5 days.

This salted beef actually has nothing to do with corn but got its
name in Anglo-Saxon times when a granular salt the size of a kernel of
wheat ‘corn,’ of course, to a Briton was used to process it. To
corn,

If it is to be stored, wash in lukewarm water, dry thoroughly, then
wrap in layers of heavy paper and hang in a cool, dry place.

Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; November 18 1992.