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- From: jhk_sys@ix.netcom.com (Jon Keeney)
- Subject: Brisket
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 03:57:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <406nba$esc_002@woodhead.cts.com>
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- Faux Barbecued Brisket:
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- Instead of cooking the brisket on a grill or in a smoker, this recipe
- allows you to cook the meat in the oven and then finish it on a grill
- or under the broiler.
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- Select a large brisket and trim all the fat from it. I usually end up
- with two good sizes of lean meat after the trimming.
-
- Paint the meat with liberal amounts of liquid smoke then rub with
- Lawry's seasoned salt.
- Let the meat set on racks while preparing the cooking pan.
- In a 18"x24" or larger 3 to 4 inch deep pan build a bed of coarsely
- chopped aromatic vegetables ( onions, celery, carrots, etc).
- The vegetables are not going to be eaten so this is a chance to get
- all the old salad 'fixens' out of the fridge.
- Place metal cooling or meat racks over the vegetable bed.
- Rub the meat once more with the seasoned salt and place in the
- cooking pan on the racks. Tightly cover with aluminum foil.
- Cook in 250 degree oven until center of thickest piece of meat is
- 170 degrees. This will take 3 to 6 hours depending on the size of
- the brisket. So start early.
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- While the brisket is cooking, make the sauce:
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- This sauce recipe was condensed from one used by a Texican (before
- Texas) pioneer woman. (regretfully I've lost the original) I recognized
- that many of the original ingredients, like "a peck of peeled
- tomatoes", the apples, cloves, and half the vinegar could be replaced
- with ketchup and Worcestershire sauce.
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- In a large iron pot( don't use aluminum!! )
- Saute a chopped baseball size onion in 1/4 cup of peanut oil until
- the edges of the onion start to turn brown.
- Add:
- 1 1/4 cup white vinegar
- 1 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 2 Tblsp chili power (Gebhardt is best)
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 Tblsp prepared mustard
- 1/2 tsp celery seed
- 2 tsp crushed cumin seed
- 1 tsp salt
- 24 or 32 ounce bottle of ketchup (depending on the size of pot)
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- Cook slowly until very thick, about 3 hours, until it looks like a
- pot of thick red mud bubbling. Make sure you stir it ocasionally so
- it won't burn.
- When ready to declare it done, remove from heat and lay a stick of
- butter on top.
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- When the brisket is done dredge the meat in the sauce, place on grill
- or under broiler turning and brushing on more sauce as needed. When the
- sauce on the edges of the meat chars a little, it's ready. Let finished
- meat cool for 10-15 minutes then slice thinly, serve with cowboy beans,
- hard crust bread, dill pickles and an ice cold long neck. Pass
- remaining sauce as a condiment.
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- Yee-Haa
- Jon
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