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> "Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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>> On 5/2/2014 2:24 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>> On 5/2/2014 12:00 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>>> "Cheri" > wrote in message
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>>>>>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>>>>>>> Does anyone here use a pressure cooker and if so, for what do you
>>>>>>> use
>>>>>>> it?
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>>>>>> I do. I use it for many things that I want to cook quickly. Corned
>>>>>> beef, hominy (always in the old days) chicken, beef for stew etc.
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>>>>> I still don't get your corned beef. The only ones we know are in
>>>>> cans.
>>>>> We don't get beef prepared for 'corned beef' cooking.
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>>>> It's cured beef. In some parts of Canada they call it "salt beef"
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>>> Thanks! So, you buy 'salt beef' and cook it?
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>> It's been cured with salt and various curing chemicals to preserve it. It
>> still needs cooking. I also believe in soaking it overnight in cold
>> water and changing the water once or twice as we watch our salt.
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>> When you cook it, you put in spices, usually a pickling mix, garlic, a
>> chunk of onion and extra bay leaves. Towards the last hour of cooking
>> people add potatoes and cabbage. I cook mine ahead and chill it
>> overnight so it is easier to slice. I save the cooking liquid, strain it
>> and skim it then cook the potato and cabbage in the water.
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> I don't do the spices, I hate them, but I do save the pot water and cook
> the cabbage, carrrots, and potatoes in it too.

Heh and I thought I was the only person here that didn't like spices!!!

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