Corned Beef

Corned beef is one of the prepared meats we all buy, sit in a sandwich with a spoonful of pickle or sliced tomatoes (well, I do anyway), and not even think about how it’s made. It’s almost as if it’s just a natural product that appears and is sliced.

Corned beef is basically salted beef, and the ‘corning’ usually refers to the large ‘corns’ of salt that were once used. It is particularly associated with Cork in Ireland, which supplied corned beef to England and her colonies for some