WAY OT Corn in corned beef

super99 · Mar 20, 2014

Had leftover corned beef and cabbage for supper tonite. Why is it called corned beef? Is it the way it is prepared or raised? Trying to figure out the difference between regular beef and corned beef. Chris

CGID · Mar 20, 2014

The name comes from the whole pepper corns used in the pickeling solution.

bja105 · Mar 20, 2014

Corn is anything that is a kernal or grain, in this case salt.
In English English, not American English, any grain crop was called corn. They called our corn Maize.

Corned beef is cured with granular salt.

Edit, I didn't think about the pepper corns, another gain of 'corn.' I bet you are right.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 20, 2014

Here's the
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Kent Petersen · Mar 20, 2014

I never could see taking a peace of beef and making it taste like ham

Ken Macfarlane · Mar 21, 2014

As folks have said - packed in corns of salt. No peppercorn in the stuff we get here.

WGM · Mar 21, 2014

True Irishmen don't eat corned beef on St Patrick's day. They eat lamb.

Traditional Farmer · Mar 21, 2014

Good cured beef tastes nothing like Ham and doesn't taste like corned beef either for that matter.

Dave H (MI) · Mar 21, 2014

Do you have any documentation of that? My wife makes corned beef and cabbage every year and I would much prefer lamb chops.

Ken Macfarlane · Mar 21, 2014

Its sort of true, my wife's family is from ireland 2 generations back but corned beef is only really a north american irish thing. Family in ireland don't seem to eat it.

WGM · Mar 22, 2014

Don"t need any. It"s a fact.

WAY OT Corn in corned beef

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