It's a chunk of beef which has been corned, used to be called silverside.
It's a cheap cut of meat, so it responds well to being corned, which is basically injected with a brine and then aged in it for a while, and then you simmer it in water until it's cooked.
The meat used to have a rainbow sheen if you cut it right. I don't know if I have seen silverside for a while though.
It's Chesh's favourite recipe, and I'd like to say I do a good job of it. :-) You simmer it in some water with a bit of vinegar, sugar, herbs and spices (last night I used bay leave and allspice and an onion) and you always cook the carrots in with the meat. You can do the potatoes too, but since I was slowcooking it, I didn't want mushy taters.
I make a sweet and sharp sauce from the golden wattle cookbook, a lot like the old sweetened condensed milk mayonnaise people used to make. My mum used to serve it with white or cheese sauce. It's especially good with horseradish cream and is a favourite for sandwiches too.
Here ya go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corned_beef
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Date: 2009-01-22 12:30 am (UTC)From:It's a cheap cut of meat, so it responds well to being corned, which is basically injected with a brine and then aged in it for a while, and then you simmer it in water until it's cooked.
The meat used to have a rainbow sheen if you cut it right. I don't know if I have seen silverside for a while though.
It's Chesh's favourite recipe, and I'd like to say I do a good job of it. :-) You simmer it in some water with a bit of vinegar, sugar, herbs and spices (last night I used bay leave and allspice and an onion) and you always cook the carrots in with the meat. You can do the potatoes too, but since I was slowcooking it, I didn't want mushy taters.
I make a sweet and sharp sauce from the golden wattle cookbook, a lot like the old sweetened condensed milk mayonnaise people used to make. My mum used to serve it with white or cheese sauce. It's especially good with horseradish cream and is a favourite for sandwiches too.
Here ya go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corned_beef