Corn Beef

Photo: flickr user joyosity

Ingredients

10 gals Water

Canning salt

4 ounces Baking soda

1 ounce Salt peter

Few whole cloves

1 Teacup sugar

Little black pepper

Beef

Preparation

Boil and cool the water. Add enough salt to float an egg in. Add remainder ingredients. Add meat to brine and weight down so it is completely covered by the brine. Leave for 2 weeks in the brine in a cool place.

NOTES :This recipe is a large amount of brine. When I was a child, we had a large canning stoneware crock pot that we would fill with meat and so needed a lot of water.