Corned beef Recipe | Food Network UK

Ingredients

• 2 litres water
• 200g rock salt
• 100g brown sugar
• 2 tbsps saltpeter
• 1 cinnamon stick, broken into several pieces
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• 1 tsp black peppercorns
• 8 whole cloves
• 8 whole allspice berries
• 12 whole juniper berries
• 2 bay leaves, crumbled
• 1/2 tsp ground ginger
• 1kg ice
• 1 (2 to 2.5kg) beef brisket, trimmed
• 1 small onion, quartered
• 1 large carrot, coarsely chopped
• 1 stalk celery, coarsely chopped