Homemade Corned Beef Recipe

Name: Homemade Corned Beef Recipe
Ingredients: 2 cups coarse kosher salt; ½ cup sugar; 5 garlic cloves, smashed; 5 tablespoons pickling spices; 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon pink curing salt (sodium nitrite); 1 4- to 5-pound beef brisket; 2 bottles of good beer; 2 bottles of good ginger beer

"“The reason to corn your own beef is flavor,” said Michael Ruhlman, a chef and passionate advocate of the process He wrote about it with Brian Polcyn in their book, “Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing.” “You can achieve tastes that aren’t available in the mass produced versions,” he said Feel free to experiment with the “pickling spices” called for below — you can customize them, if you like, from a base of coriander seeds, black peppercorns and garlic — but please do not om..."

INGREDIENTS

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2 cups coarse kosher salt

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½ cup sugar

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5 garlic cloves, smashed

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5 tablespoons pickling spices

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1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon pink curing salt (sodium nitrite)

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1 4- to 5-pound beef brisket

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2 bottles of good beer

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2 bottles of good ginger beer

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