{"id":3502,"date":"2026-02-15T18:44:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipe4thecook.com\/\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:44:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:44:39","slug":"fruited-corned-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/crockpot\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/fruited-corned-beef\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruited Corned Beef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>1 Corned beef brisket (3-4 pounds)<br \/>\n1 small Onion, sliced<br \/>\n1 Strip orange peel (1\/2 inch x 3 inch)<br \/>\n1 Tbsp. Mixed pickling spices<br \/>\n1 Citrus crust<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp. While cloves<br \/>\n1 Tbsp. Each orange and lemon juice<br \/>\n1\/4 C. Apple cider or juice<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove excess salt from brisket, rinse and place it in a deep 5-6 quart pan, add water to cover. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Drain. Repeat this step once more. Meanwhile in a 4 quart or larger electric crock pot, combine onion, orange peel and pickling spices. Place drained brisket on top of onion mixture, pour in 4 C. of water. Cover and cook on low setting until brisket is very tender when pierced (8-10 hours). Prepare citrus crust. Lift brisket from crock pot and place fat side up on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. Discard liquid and seasonings in cooker. Stud top of brisket with cloves, pat citrus crust over top. Mix juices and drizzle over brisket. Bake in a 375 oven until topping is browned (30-40 minutes). To serve, life brisket to a warm platter and slice across the grain. Citrus crust: In a small bowl, mix 1\/3 C. firmly packed brown sugar, 2 Tbls. fine dry bread crumbs, 1 tsp. each dry mustard, and grated lemon peel and 1 Tbls. grated orange peel.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&quot;Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience&#039; sake;&quot; (1Corinthians 10:25)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crockpot<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/crockpot\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/fruited-corned-beef\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crockpot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/crockpot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/crockpot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/crockpot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/crockpot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/crockpot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/crockpot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/crockpot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/crockpot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/crockpot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}