Boiled beef Boiled beef Boiled beef is a traditional English dish which used to be eaten by working-class people in London; however, its popularity has decreased in recent years. Traditionally, cheaper cuts of meat were used, because boiling makes the meat more tender than roasting. It was usually cooked with onions and served with carrots and boiled potatoes. It was not uncommon for the beef to be salted in a brine for a few days, then soaked overnight to remove excess salt before it was boiled. In other parts of England cabbage replaced carrots. This dish gave rise to the old cockney
Milk and meat in Jewish law 24 hours of being used to cook meat (and vice versa). Although, after 24 hours, some residual flavour may still reside in porous cooking vessels and utensils, some rabbis hold the opinion that such residue would become stale and fetid, hence only "infusing taste for the worse" (Hebrew: "nosen taam lifgam", נותן טעם לפגם), which they do not regard as violating the ban against mixing the tastes of milk and meat. Since "parve" food is reclassified if it takes on the flavour of meat or dairy produce, Ashkenazi Jews traditionally forbid eating "parve" contents of a pot that has been