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| | Why We Have No Corned Beef & Cabbage Recipes | European Cuisines (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Corned beef first turns up, if translations are to be trusted, in The Vision of MacConglinne, the 12th-century poem which describes so much of Irish food as it was eaten at that time. |
 | | Eating beef, except for that of a cow past its milking days or accidentally killed, was the cultural equivalent of lighting your cigars with hundred-dollar bills...unless you were a chieftain, or a king, in which case you could afford it. |
 | | Those who did eat beef, tended to eat it fresh: corned beef again surfaces in writings of the late 1600's as a specialty, a costly delicacy (expensive because of the salt) made to be eaten at Easter, and sometimes at Hallowe'en. |
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