New England Boiled Dinner: Corned Beef Brisket, peeled onion and cloves of garlic to taste in large pot. I like the seasoning pack. Boil for 2 hours on simmer after brought to boiling. After 2 hours add potatoes and carrots. At 2:45 add cabbage cut into 4 quarters. Uncover and fish everything out of the water and eat.
Yup. No need to pre-rinse or soak any salt out, you want some salt in the broth to season the veggies. Sometimes I'll add some mustard seeds to the pot.
this is exactly the way we've always done it, and we live way down south, way below nashville. we let the cabbage simmer about 15minues to soften and leave a bit of crunch. others cook the cabbage a bit longer, usually mature flat-head Dutch.
we eat it w/baked cornbread, with no flour and no sugar.
