When children, grandchildren and great-grandchild get together for Christmas Eve dinner, you need a substantial piece of meat.\u00a0 Brisket, I think, is the perfect choice.\u00a0 Several of our Thistle Hill customers report they also had wonderful meals this year, slow-cooking our grass fed brisket.<\/p>\n
So I share Wooz’ “old family recipe”, which is certainly old if not family.\u00a0 It’s from a cookbook published in 1958 with a Wooz twist. \u00a0Here’s her version:<\/p>\n
Every once in a while a great recipe meets a great piece of meat and the result is pleasing to all.\u00a0 This Christmas Eve we tried an old recipe\u00a0with a perfect \u00a0brisket from our own Thistle Hill \u00a0Devon beef.\u00a0 We doubled the recipe to fill up our grandsons, who have hefty appetites and it was good that we did!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n This is the single recipe which you can multiply or cut back.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0very forgiving; there\u2019s little you can do to ruin it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Thistle Hill brisket:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Mix 2 teaspoons salt, 3 tablespoons brown sugar, 1 cup chili sauce and 1 and \u00bc cups vinegar.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Pour over your five pound brisket\u00a0 (one of ours was nine pounds and did just fine)\u00a0 and marinate overnight.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Place meat in roasting pan and pour marinade over it.\u00a0 Top with Italian seasoning, 1 cup chopped celery leaves and 2 sliced onions. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Allow one hour per pound roast for five hours \u00a0at 325 degrees.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Baste frequently.\u00a0 After three hours you may want to test with a thermometer and, if temperature is adequate (about 150 degrees), turn oven down to\u00a0low\u00a0until you are ready to serve.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n We sliced it and \u00a0put the meat in a\u00a0crock pot.\u00a0 Pour strained marinade and pan drippings over\u00a0 and \u00a0keep warm until guests are ready.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This recipe may be made ahead of time\u00a0and reheated in the crock pot.\u00a0 We added parboiled carrots and small potatoes to the crock pot before serving.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I might add we were worried about serving brisket since our family is accustomed to chili before opening presents Christmas eve.\u00a0 By their second or third time past the buffet, we stopped worrying.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When children, grandchildren and great-grandchild get together for Christmas Eve dinner, you need a substantial piece of meat.\u00a0 Brisket, I think, is the perfect choice.\u00a0 Several of our Thistle Hill customers report they also had wonderful meals this year, slow-cooking our grass fed brisket. So I share Wooz’ “old family recipe”, which is certainly old if not family.\u00a0 It’s from a cookbook published in 1958 with a Wooz twist. \u00a0Here’s her version: Every once in a while a great recipe meets a great piece of meat and the result is pleasing to all.\u00a0 This Christmas Eve we tried an old recipe\u00a0with a perfect \u00a0brisket from our own Thistle Hill \u00a0Devon beef.\u00a0 We doubled the recipe to fill up our grandsons, who have hefty appetites and it was good that we did! This is the single recipe which you can multiply or cut back.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0very forgiving; there\u2019s little you can do to ruin it. Thistle Hill brisket:\u00a0 Mix 2 teaspoons salt, 3 tablespoons brown sugar, 1 cup chili sauce and 1 and \u00bc cups vinegar.\u00a0 Pour over your five pound brisket\u00a0 (one of ours was nine pounds and did just fine)\u00a0 and marinate overnight.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Place meat in roasting pan and pour marinade over it.\u00a0 Top with Italian seasoning, 1 cup chopped celery leaves and 2 sliced onions. \u00a0 Allow one hour per pound roast for five hours \u00a0at 325 degrees.\u00a0 Baste frequently.\u00a0 After three hours you may want to test with a thermometer and, if temperature is adequate (about 150 degrees), turn oven down to\u00a0low\u00a0until you are ready to serve. We sliced it and \u00a0put the meat in a\u00a0crock pot.\u00a0 Pour strained marinade and pan drippings over\u00a0 and \u00a0keep warm until guests are ready.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This recipe may be made ahead of time\u00a0and reheated in the crock pot.\u00a0 We added parboiled carrots and small potatoes to the crock pot before serving.\u00a0\u00a0 I might add we were worried about serving brisket since our family is accustomed to chili before opening presents Christmas eve.\u00a0 By their second or third time past the buffet, we stopped worrying. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-recipes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}