Home made corned beef...........anyone made/tried it ?...it is LOVELY!!

[Dave7]

The golf club I belong to is privately owned and the owner (a really nice guy) does much of the catering.
He recently started serving his own home cooked corned beef...............absolutely blumin lovely. He makes it from a topside joint, soaks it for a week in pink salt, herbs & spices then cooks it. So it is unlike tinned corned beef.
From that he makes corned beef pie or, as I prefer it, on warm a baguette with onion.
I googled it but for just the 2 of us it looks a bit long winded.
Anyone ever done it ?

 

[OskarTennisChampion]

No,but I sure as hell want to
Corned beef salad being my favourite eat

 

[jefmcg]

Um, ok, I'm confused. That sounds like what Australians and Americans (and probably NZ and Canada as well) call "corned beef" but I thought that was "salt beef" in the UK, and corned beef in the UK was some sort of horrible tinned meat loaf - ie minced or chopped, then formed into a shape.

 

[OskarTennisChampion]

Tinned beef from Argentina usually.
And I have always seen it as Corned beef.
Everywhere

 

[Nibor]

It is just real corned beef. Basically beef preserved in the same way as pork is to make ham to make it last longer.

 

[biggs682]

Mmm sounds nice, need a sample please

 

[OskarTennisChampion]

Mmm sounds nice, need a sample please

Thinking the same thing

 

[Dave7]

What the OP is describing is salt beef. Corned beef is chopped salt beef preserved in butter or beef dripping.

No......if you google "home made corned beef" it will give you the details.

 

[biggs682]

Thinking the same thing

i would even allow a road test on my Wester Ross in exchange for a sample cant say fairer than that can i

 

[OskarTennisChampion]

i would even allow a road test on my Wester Ross in exchange for a sample cant say fairer than that can i

Wish I had home made corned beef

 

[biggs682]

Wish I had home made corned beef

must admit we like tinned corn beef and thinking about it makes me believe we have not had it for a while

 

[biggs682]

[QUOTE 4238234, member: 259"]Vernon did a recipe for a tinned halal corned beef pie a while ago. I don't mind using it for a hash with spuds, but the real stuff is miles better. It reminds me of being in my grandma's house in Lincs and having a massive feed of boiled corned beef with cabbage and potatoes from my grandad's garden.[/QUOTE]

until reading this thread i had never thought of making your own

we like it with chips and a salad

 

[jefmcg]

Definitely in parts of the UK, corned beef as morphed into meaning the "hashed/minced" variety that you get in tins, but because the US and Australia have the same meaning of corned beef, it must come from a UK origin.

I wonder if the whole silverside (or whatever) version disappeared during rationing, and by the time that ended, the tinned variety had taken over the name so they had to rename it "salt beef". Certainly I've never seen it called corned beef here, only salt beef.

When I was in New York for work, our colleagues took us to Katz's deli for a corn beef sandwich. My London colleagues didn't look keen, but it turns out they were expecting the stuff that comes in tins. They were pleasantly surprised.

(just had a look at an Australian supermarket, they do have the same stuff in tins, called corn beef, imported from Brazil. They also have the ready-to-cook silverside, for the same price/kg)

 

[TheDoctor]

I've seen the making-ham-with-beef thing called corned beef and salt beef, in different parts of the UK. Not tried making it, but it can't be hard. Making bacon is simplicity itself, so I'll have to give salt beef a go. Yum!

 

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