Corned beef in NZ and Ireland  was cured beef brisket and cooked as a whole joint.  Just as your butcher described, but we don’t mince it.  I’ve had the canned stuff not a patch on the real thing.  We boil the joint slowly in a the pot or slow cooker, and serve with potatoes and cabbage.  Corned beef hash was a thing the early Irish immigrants to America ate at hash kitchens, these were ran by Jewish emigrants who didn’t eat cured bacon, the Irish found the texture of the corned beef similar to the cured bacon.  Slices of corned beef beef with mustard, can’t be beaten.

Aussie here and I have never eaten canned corned beef but I have seen it in the Supermarket and my husband, a Yorkshireman treats himself to a can of it occasionally. Every supermarket and butcher in Australia sells freshly corned (brined) beef, pork and leg of lamb (2 year old sheep) that you cook at home. My favourite is pickled pork which is just like boiled ham, so moist. My parents used to make their own pressed lunch meat from fresh pigs cheek and cows tongue. They called it “brawn”. Our corned beef is brined as a slab of meat and then we cook it by simmering gently in water with brown sugar, vinegar, peppercorns and bay leaves, and when cooked is carved and served with mashed potatoes, steamed carrots and cauliflower, cooked shredded cabbage mixed with bacon bits and tossed in butter and a choice of white sauce or mustard sauce. The left overs are used as slices in a sandwich or chopped up and placed in a pie. The corned beef hash pie my family have eaten contained onions and baked beans and then topped with mash (made by my sister in law, a Yorkshire lass of 89 years). As a child my mum would batter slices and fry them up for us as a snack. Happy memories. Sorry, had to edit because words kept replacing what I actually intended to say.

Corned beef and brown sauce sarnies ! Memories of my childhood.

I make my corned beef hash with tin stuff, delicious. I will try the pie, but right now I want some hash!

2022-23 the year Corned Beef made a glorious return.

My Grandma
Always made Corned Beef hash when we wanted it for  dinner, still can't get enough of it 😂

Absolutely love it

Love his videos, he makes cooking look easy.

Thankyou Love cornbeef pie. Nice tasty dish

Paul your videos are getting more and more interesting and above all you have dear guests in your kitchen. Thank you for the lovely tips you keep giving us ❤❤❤

We have it twice a week.  It’s a very popular dish in Ireland.   At Christmas we have Spiced beef. Which is a very spiced dish.

Paul I just discovered yours channel bring English in Australia I rely on fray bentos a lot but now seeing how to make these pies I’m won over no more tins and more corned beef for my family I love the approach to thank you and easy to remember ❤

I've been making corned beef hash for years now, since my Mum taught me.
Ours is made slightly different to this one, but it's one of my favourite meals.
And corned beef pie is simply delicious.
Luckily dinner will be ready in 30 mins, as I'm salivating writing this lol.

We grew up cooking corned beef in New England boiled dinner (roast corned beef, carrots,  and potatoes) in a 5 quart cast iron Dutch oven.  The best part was using the leftovers to make hash!

Very nice dish, I love it, thank you for sharing.

Spot on. I was born in 1948 and my dad, an ex tank commander in North Africa and Italy, loved corned beef. He had a one pound tin of corned beef ration PER DAY in field rations and never tired of it. In my childhood (early 1950s ration book Britain) - and even now, it's a fantastic staple for butties (with sliced onion), fritters (not brilliant), taterash (all one word !!😊) and your recipe, corned beef hash pie. Yum! 😀

Ohhh my!!!
Looks so good Love!👍🏻👍🏻
Love It!😋 God Bless You More!  💞💋💋💋

Great rustic scoff from the ol' country.

Where I live, corned brief is a big piece of meat in brime. We cook it in water for ages and it comes out all tender Beautiful!!

Thanks for sharing.  I always wondered about corned beef