“Both start with meats brined in pickling spices and curing salt, but corned beef is boiled or steamed, while pastrami is smoked.” One of the most crucial ingredients to the brine is pink ...

Corned beef is a style of salt-cured brisket popular among the Irish ... own corned beef (which involves brining the brisket with pickling spices for five days or more), we start with store ...

Maybe it’s because it involves raw meat sitting around ... the pink curing salt. Each recipe had a different ratio for how much water to pickling spices was needed; I ensured I made enough ...

The following pickled eggplant recipe is from “Fermenting and Curing: Sauerkraut, Salted Produce, and Cured Meat.” You can purchase this book from the MOTHER EARTH NEWS store: The Preservation ...

Wondering how long to cook corned beef for the perfect St. Patrick's Day meal? Here's a handy time and temperature guide.