Home-Made Salt Beef

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

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By Tom Parker Bowles

Published 2013

  • About

This is an epic recipe, but it’s more Independence Day than Odyssey as the action takes place over about eight or so days. Home-made salt beef is miles removed from the bland, chewy, pre-sliced stuff you get in the shops. It’s rich and luscious, scented with spices and falls apart in great chunks.

As to its history, there are the usual debates, arguments and polite exchanges of opinion. A recipe for pickled beef, in Rob