Jiggs Dinner Food

NEWFOUNDLAND JIGG'S DINNER

Steps:

• Cover the corned beef with cold water and soak overnight in the refrigerator.
• Drain the beef and place in a large Dutch oven. Cover with fresh water. Place the yellow peas in a triple layer of cheesecloth and tie securely. Place the bag inside the Dutch oven with the beef. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook for 2 hours.
• After 2 hours, add the chopped cabbage, turnip, and carrots to the pot. Simmer for 25 minutes.
• Add the chopped potatoes and simmer an additional 20 to 25 minutes, or until all of the vegetables are fork tender.
• While the vegetables are cooking, prepare the dumpling dough as follows: Combine the flour, sugar, and baking powder in a bowl, then add the water a little bit at a time to make a pasty dough. You may not need to add all of the water. Divide the dough into 6 balls. Be careful not to over-handle the dough.
• During the last 5 to 10 minutes of simmering the vegetables, place the dough balls on top of the vegetables and cover with a lid. Allow the dumplings to steam in the pot for 7 minutes.
• When the dumplings are cooked through, remove all ingredients from the pot and arrange on a warm serving platter. Remove the cooked peas from the cheesecloth bag and mash with the butter and black pepper. Serve alongside the beef and vegetables.

JIGG'S DINNER

Steps:

• Equipment 1 large stock pot 2 pudding bags (The amounts listed above below are based on serving 5 people.) When planning to make Jigg's Dinner, the salt beef and the split peas should be soaked overnight to remove the excess salt.
• The next day, dump out the water in which the salt beef was soaking.
• Place the beef in the stock pot and put enough water in just to cover the beef.
• After an hour of soaking, test the water.
• If it is extremely salty, dump out that water and soak the beef for another hour.
• If the water is fine, fill up the pot with water and set it to boil!
• The split peas that have been soaking overnight, must be drained.
• Then, place the peas in the pudding bag (again make sure to wet it), tie it properly and drop in the boiling water.
• Both of the puddings should take close to two hours.
• Now comes the count down for the vegetables.
• The following is a guideline of cooking times for each of the vegetables: Cabbage 40 minutes (1 hour and 20 minutes into the boil).
• Turnips& Carrots 30 minutes (1 ½ hours).
• Potatoes 20 minutes (1 hour and 40 minutes).
• At the 2 hour mark everything should be cooked and it's just a matter of scooping and sorting the vegetables.
• Slice the Dark Molasses Pudding.
• Mash the pease pudding.
• Then it's time to eat.
• HINT: serve with roast of chicken, turkey or beef.
• Pickled beats, stuffing& gravy along with home made buns or bread Whatta Scoff!
• Left over veggies fry up great next day as hash.

JIGG'S DINNER

Steps:

• Soak salt beef overnight in cold water on stove.
• Next day drain and add new water, enough to cover meat.
• Place salt pork in pot.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer about 2- 2 1/2 hours.
• Add your cabbage, carrots, turnip.
• Simmer another 1/2 hour.
• Add potatoes and simmer until done, about 45 minutes.
• Blueberry Duff: Once you have mix ingredients and placed in pudding bag, boil in jigg's dinner pot when you only have an hour left of simmering.
• About 15 minutes before you have added your potatoes.

HOME MADE CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE RECIPE

Steps:

• Prep. Peel the carrots and cut into 1-inch (2.5-cm) pieces. Clean the potatoes and cut into 2-inch (5.1-cm) chunks. Remove the outer leaves from the cabbage and cut into quarters.
• If you are using store bought corned beef, open the cryovac and dump out all the liquid. If you have made your own corned beef (and you should, it is better than store-bought, click here for the recipe), remove it from the curing liquid.
• Rinse the corned beef thoroughly. Some packages have some pickling spices in a packet. They can't flavor the meat but they can flavor the veggies. Some cuts have a thick layer of fat on the surface of one side, called a fat cap. Trim it all off. This fat is not like marbling in beef. It cannot penetrate the meat and it brings nothing to the party but calories and it just makes scum. If you bought the point section of a brisket, there is probably a layer of fat on top of a layer of meat, then another layer of fat, and finally another layer of meat. Trim off the surface fat and leave the center fat layer intact. It will be easy to remove after it is cooked.
• Cook. Place the meat in a large pot along with enough hot water to cover it by at least 1" (2.5 cm) and put the lid on. Turn the heat to medium low, bring it to a simmer at about 190°F (87.8°C) and keep it there for 30 minutes. If you boil it, it will shrink and squeeze out the moisture. Yes, you can make dry meat in a pot of water if you cook it too hot! Beware that the meat is cold, so when it warms the water will slowly move from simmer to boil. Keep an eye on it and try not to let it boil.
• After 30 minutes of simmering, dump out the water and cover the meat with fresh hot water, again about 1" (2.5 cm) above the meat. We do this to remove some of the salt from the curing process. You want salt, but not too much. Bring to a low simmer again, this time cooking for 3 hours or until it is about 190°F (87.8°C) in the center and fork tender. Some really cheap cuts will never get tender (and that's why it is best to make your own). Keep the meat submerged even if you have to weight it down with a small plate.
• About 1 hour before dinnertime, add the carrots and potatoes. If you want, add the spices now. They will need an hour to get tender, depending on how thick you cut them. About 30 minutes before dinner, add the cabbage. If you want to add onions and garlic to flavor the soup, do it now. But don't think for a minute they will flavor the meat.
• Remove the meat and place it on a carving board. If you got the point section, there are often two horizontal muscles with a thick layer of fat between them. Separate them by sliding a knife through the fat. Carve and/or scrape off the fat layer.
• Serve. Carve the meat by cutting across the grain about the thickness of a pencil. Any thinner and it will fall apart, any thicker and it will be chewy. Carve with the grain and you will have difficulty chewing. Lift out the cabbage, potatoes, and carrots and divide them into serving bowls. Place the meat in the bowl. Spoon some of the cooking liquid over them and serve.