Brisket of Beef

Brisket is a humble cut of beef, inexpensive and fatty but, like many such, it rewards thoughtful cooking with a beefiness that makes much more expensive cuts taste pallid by comparison. It’s the fat that does it; in this recipe it is slowly rendered out of the joint (you can pour it off, for dripping), leaving it succulent and full of flavour. This is one of my mother’s recipes - plain English country food of the sort that is creeping back on to menus. She has a good, helpful butcher, and