Brisket for a Beginner

My mother-in-law taught me how to cook her Jewish brisket when I was a young southern bride in the 60's. This was her recipe, BUT the secret is to fry the onions for a long, long time in butter until they are deep golden brown and caramelize. After the onions are finished cooking, remove them and sear the brisket on both sides. Return the onions to the brisket, adding 2 cups of water. Let the brisket bake (or keep it in the dutch oven on top of the stove) for about an hour and a half. Remove it and cut it into even slices. Replace the slices back into the pan and mix the dry onion soup mix with the water and catsup (which you have already mixed together). Cook it for another hour or so until fork tender. This makes a little bit of highly-flavored gravy to serve over wide noodles or with potato kugel. Oh, there is not another meat recipe out there to rival this one. It has been my children's favorite their whole lives. Actually, it is so good that I have been known to go into the refrigerator and eat it cold. If possible, I cook this one day in advance so that the fat will rise to the top and I can remove it easier when it has been refrigerated. Slowly reheat it and the flavors will have really permeated the meat. It is even better left-over with left-over kugel.

Indeed very good and easy. I used 1/ catsup and 1/2 chili sauce. for the liquid I used coke.Great on a bun! :-) I made it again and used Beer for the liquid, a shot of liquid smoke and some B B Q Sauce.Also a bunch of garlic. Awsome! Thanks again for such a great basic recipe.

This was extremely easy to fix. We had all the ingredients on hand too which was quite convenient! The only difference we made was rubbing the roast with some salt and pepper prior to adding to the pan and also tossing in a few cloves of garlic. We found that our roast, almost 4lb, had to cook a little longer, for about 3 1/2 hours, in order to be fork tender. We all enjoyed it , but found it to be a bit on the sweet side for our taste. Thanks for an easy recipe!

I made passover for the first time since getting married and my mother-in-law, who is critical of everything, would not stop ranting and raving about it. The one thing I did was when the brisket was done cooking, I sliced it and put in back into the juices and let it sti covered for another hour at 200, it absorbed so much flavor and was so tender.

Very Easy and tender... the only thing I added was a bit of brown sugar.. I'm not a ketchup fan so I tried to changed the taste. overall it was a hit!!!I was going to save the l/o for sandwiches but there wasn't any left.