Flat cut brisket- equivalent in UK?

Hi,

I want to make a spiced beef (which I always thought was an English dish!)  but when I asked the butcher, he brought out a steak with a bone attached!  I need the cut that one can make corned beef with, you know, fairly flat and roughly rectangular. Any ideas?

The recipe basically cures the meat and then after cooking, pressing and chilling it, you slice it very thinly and serve.  It tastes a bit like pastrami, but not garlicky.

Any help appreciated.

Kathleen

I cook a LOT of briskets...being a jew and all...however I have never seen a flat cut or a deckle cut brisket. What I do see a lot of are rolled briskets, I think my local butcher buys them that way. You can unroll them, however they still aren't the same cut as a US one, but they do taste just as good. The rolled ones fit into my crock pot pretty well.

I love me a brisket.

I'm not sure what happened to the 'British cuts of meat' diagram on this link, but perhaps you could take the American diagram in to the butcher & show them?

http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=34101.msg447344#msg447344

I being a Jew, also make a lot of briskets but I've only seen them rolled. I get them at Tesco cheap!

I being a Jew, also make a lot of briskets but I've only seen them rolled. I get them at Tesco cheap!

So its agreed, Jews love brisket.

So its agreed, Jews love brisket.

Yep. My grandmother made them every Sunday. She would roast it in a roasting pan with a packet of Lipton onion soup mix. I'll bet her old apartment still smells like onion soup and brisket!

Yep. My grandmother made them every Sunday. She would roast it in a roasting pan with a packet of Lipton onion soup mix. I'll bet her old apartment still smells like onion soup and brisket!

I have ONE SINGLE PACKET of lipton soup mix in my cupboard...it might be seeing the light of day soon! My Jewish mother is over next week...I had better warn my butcher!

Is my gentile-ness showing if i say i don't even know what brisket is?!   

I mean, i know it's beef, but I dont know what makes it different from other cuts of beef or why it's special or people like it so much.   I doubt I've ever had it!     

Brisket is quite cheap.. or it was in Canada, anyways.  It comes from the front end of cattle, and is mostly the wobbly bit hanging from the neck/going through to the front legs.  A picture would be good... and perhaps a bit more appetizing than my description!  It's very high in fat, generally, and therefore tasty. Can be tough.  I think it's used for corned beef, and if so, you have had it.

For some reason, we rarely ate it.  Neighbors would come over to pick it up when we slaughtered. 

Yep. My grandmother made them every Sunday. She would roast it in a roasting pan with a packet of Lipton onion soup mix. I'll bet her old apartment still smells like onion soup and brisket!

My mom does the Lipton soup method, but then proceeds to over cook the brisket until it is like an old boot. I always hated brisket until I made it myself... without the Lipton soup.

A brisket is the same thing as a pot roast. I thought Brisket was a Jewish term, until I moved to the UK and found out the phrase is universal.

A brisket is the same thing as a pot roast.

    

How boring is that?!   Are you sure?   Why would people be raving about a pot roast?

   
How boring is that?!   Are you sure?   Why would people be raving about a pot roast?

Oh no you didn't just say that. I adore Pot Roast, its one of my favorite dinners EVER.

I'm not sure what happened to the 'British cuts of meat' diagram on this link,

I've fixed it! Thanks for noticing, Carolyn! Here you go!

   

How boring is that?!   Are you sure?   Why would people be raving about a pot roast?

But it's only boring if you make it that way, like a roast chicken. I make my brisket with portobello mushrooms and cranberries and it is delish.