St. Patricks day is tommorrow and I bought some brisket at the store for 2.49 per pd. this is usda choice flat cut. I was wondering how the price differs in different areas of the country. we are in the midwest. what did you pay?
St. Patricks day is tommorrow and I bought some brisket at the store for 2.49 per pd. this is usda choice flat cut. I was wondering how the price differs in different areas of the country. we are in the midwest. what did you pay?
Very interesting link. Nonetheless, I'll stick with pastrami and drink my toast to St Patrick (with some Knappogue Castle).Yet, the corned beef the Irish immigrants ate was much different than that produced in Ireland 200 years prior. The Irish immigrants almost solely bought their meat from kosher butchers. And what we think of today as Irish corned beef is actually Jewish corned beef thrown into a pot with cabbage and potatoes. The Jewish population in New York City at the time were relatively new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe. The corned beef they made was from brisket, a kosher cut of meat from the front of the cow. Since brisket is a tougher cut, the salting and cooking processes transformed the meat into the extremely tender, flavorful corned beef we know of today.
According to the Smithsonian, the Irish invented corned beef (and became the global leader). The cabbage was added by kosher butchers in the US. mostly immigrants from Eastern Europe.
Good article.Being Irish myself, I would never think to make corned beef and cabbage, which is an American invention. I'm celebrating St. Patrick's Day next week by having some friends over and I am making Irish stew, with lamb. I'm going to leave out the potatoes and serve the stew with colcannon. Our appetizer will be smoked salmon on Irish soda bread.
Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Phádraig daoibh go léir!
Is Corned Beef Really Irish? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian
Never heard of corned beef ever when growing up. Saw it for the first time when I got to the US.
I'm half Irish (half-kiss me!) and I don't think I tasted corned beef until I was 16. Now potatoes.... It didn't really occur to me to buy corned beef for St Pat's Day--and the actual day this year is a lenten no-meat day so fish and potatoes it is!
Being Irish myself, I would never think to make corned beef and cabbage, which is an American invention. I'm celebrating St. Patrick's Day next week by having some friends over and I am making Irish stew, with lamb. I'm going to leave out the potatoes and serve the stew with colcannon. Our appetizer will be smoked salmon on Irish soda bread.
Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Phádraig daoibh go léir!
Is Corned Beef Really Irish? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian
Please don't call it St. Patty's Day! There is no St. Patty.
Please Don't Call It St. Patty's Day - ABC News
Sorry! That crossed my mind after I posted that maybe that was not proper for the true Irish. Hey, but this is an Eastern-European-American who eats Corned Beef & Cabbage this week! So maybe it's OK for me to say "St. Paddy's", it's just not OK for you to say it?
Regardless, if there is time left, I will edit the post.
Hah - looking at that link, it says "St. Paddy" is acceptable, and I think I wrote that first, but that sounded too slang-ish and I changed it to "Patty" before posting! I should have left it. Live and learn, but I'll forget by next year!
-ERD50
I'm guessing here that since Padraig (pronounced paw rig) is the Gaelic name for Patrick that why it's Paddy.Patty is a girl, Paddy is a boy. It's perfectly acceptable to call it Paddy's Day or St. Paddy's Day or St. Patrick's Day.
Also, four leafed clovers have no place in this story. The point was that St. Patrick used the three leafed shamrock to illustrate the concept of the Holy Trinity.
I'm guessing here that since Padraig (pronounced paw rig) is the Gaelic name for Patrick that why it's Paddy.