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St. Patrick's Day recipes - corned beef and cabbage

The perfect Irish pair-up for the holiday

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I'm Irish born yes corned beef and cabbage is not Irish but it is Irish American so guy's enjoy your corned beef and happy paddy's day. Why does everything have to be a battle.
An half an hour is sufficient for the cabbage longer it turns into mush.
boild irish bacon, cabbage and mashed potatoes equal COLCANON
Boiling corned beef is like boiling pork butt for pulled pork. what we want to do here is to break down the connective tissue in the beef. toss the corned beef in a roasting pan 1/2 can of budweiser 1/2 can of ginger ale sugery kind dump the spices that come in the pkg on top and spread with fingers all over the fat cap. seal tightly with alum foil so no steam escapes and roast LOW AND SLOW AT OVEN TEMP OF 250 DEGREES. depending on size check after 4-5 hrs. yum yum boil the rest of the crap separately
I'm with Casey. Boiling bacon is on our table March 17. Too bad American Irish restaurants are too wimpy to serve the real thing.
Bacon and Cabbage it is. The Irish in Ireland do not know of corned beef and cabbage, it is strictly an Irish-American dish. When the Irish arrived in the USA they quickly learned from their Jewish neighbors that corned beef was a lot cheaper then what the Irish would have called bacon (ham in the USA) in the USA. Poor Irish emigrants used what they could to make what would have been bacon and cabbage in Ireland, corned beef and cabbage.
Corned Beef and Cabbage is not Irish!! Bacon and Cabbage is Irish. The Corned Beef and Cabbage started with a comic strip in the 30's Maggie and jigges "Bringing up Father" and Jiggs going down to some saloon to have "Corned Beef and Cabbage". the first time I was in Ireland (1953) and asked my sunts if we were going to have Corned Beef they looked at me as if I had two heads. Norman Casey
I suppose to some Corned Beef & Cabbage is a bad sign ,mocking your ancestry!
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