This meat has surely been boiled

For one day a year we pretend to be Irish. I mean some of us are Irish all of the time, so they just act extra Irish on that day. Or the American version of Irish. You do this by: dressing in green, drinking all the alcohol, and eating corned beef.

Corned beef is a salt cured beef product. It’s corned beef because of the salt kernels. During WWI and WWI it became incredibly popular because it was rationed. During WWII most all of the corned beef was imported from Uruguay. Corned beef became industrialized during the British Industrial revolution and they sold it in cans like this. Yum yum. Corned beef production worsened the effects for the Irish to eat during the Potato Famine because most of their land was used to produce beef for the people of Britain, leaving little land to produce food for themselves. Most historians say that is was not until the huge wave of Irish immigration to the United States in the early 1900s that corned beef became associated with the Irish. Only in America and Canada is corned beef associated with St. Patrick’s day. WHAT?!? We are fakes. In Ireland they eat bacon and cabbage. That is odd because you would think those things would be switched.

So being the good Irish Americans that we truly are, we made corned beef with cabbage and carrots. Here is what we did.

Ingredients:

• 4 lb corned beef brisket
• 3 large carrots cut into large chunks
• 6 to 8 small onion
• 1 teaspoon dry English mustard
• large sprig of thyme and some parsley stalks (tie them together with string or...other)
• 1 cabbage
• salt and pep as my grandmother would say

Directions:

1. Put the brisket in a saucepan covered with carrots, onions, mustard, and the bonded herbs.
2. Cover with cold water and heat to a simmer that ish for 2 hours (make sure it is covered)
3. Get rid of those pesky outer leaves of the cabbage and then add them to the pot too
4. Cook for 1 to 2 hours more until the meat looks like how you want to eat it and then you can eat it
5. Serve cut into slices and with all of the veggies and stuff
6. yum. not irish

   

   
   

    
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