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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Irish >> Irish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Place the water into a large 6 to 8 quart stockpot along with salt, sugar, saltpeter, cinnamon stick, mustard seeds, peppercorns, cloves, allspice, juniper berries, bay leaves and ginger. | 2. Cook over high heat until the salt and sugar have dissolved. | 3. Remove from the heat and add the ice. | 4. Stir until the ice has melted. | 5. If necessary, place the brine into the refrigerator until it reaches a temperature of 45 degrees (I put mine in the refrigerator over night). | 6. Once it has cooled, place the brisket in a 2-gallon zip top bag and add the brine. | 7. Seal and lay flat inside a container, cover and place in the refrigerator for 10 days. | 8. Check daily to make sure the beef is completely submerged and stir the brine. | 9. After 10 days, remove from the brine and rinse well under cool water. | 10. Place the brisket into a pot just large enough to hold the meat, add the onion, carrot and celery and cover with water by 1-inch. | 11. Set over high heat and bring to a boil. | 12. Reduce the heat to low, cover and gently simmer for 2 1/2 to 3 hours or until the meat is fork tender. | 13. Remove from the pot and thinly slice across the grain. | 14. My Crock pot method: | 15. After 10 days, remove from the brine and rinse well under cool water. | 16. Place the brisket into bottom of crock pot. | 17. Add 5 potatoes cut in half and 1 pound baby carrots. | 18. Turn on high and cook for 2 hours. | 19. Add whole head of cabbage that you have quartered. | 20. Make sure you keep cabbage from touching the crock pot so it will not burn. | 21. Cook another 2 hours on high. | 22. Slice and serve with the vegetables. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
water	2	quarts		-	-	-	-
kosher salt	1	cup		-	-	-	-
brown sugar	1/2	cup		418.0	107.899	0.132	0.0
saltpeter	2	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
cinnamon	1			-	-	-	-
mustard seed	1	teaspoon		10.16	0.5618	0.5216	0.7248
black peppercorn	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
clove	8			46.032	11.009	1.003	2.184
allspice berry	8			-	-	-	-
juniper berry	12			-	-	-	-
bay leaf	2		crumbled	-	-	-	-
ginger	1/2	teaspoon	ground	0.8	0.1777	0.0182	0.0075
ice	2	lb		2013.9525	201.3953	37.1946	117.9342
beef brisket	1		trimmed	703.08	0.0	93.9859	33.4303
onion	1		quartered	28.0	6.537999999999999	0.77	0.07
carrot	1		chopped	29.52	6.8976	0.6696	0.1728
celery	1	stalk	chopped	10.24	1.9008	0.4416	0.1088
potato	5		peeled halved	-	-	-	-
baby carrot	1	lb		158.7575	37.3761	2.903	0.5897
cabbage	1		quartered	22.25	5.162000000000001	1.1392	0.08900000000000001

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.