Irish corned beef recipe Corned beef is ancient Irish recipe

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Never would have guessed that corned beef was even Irish, always thought the St Patricks day corned beef and cabbage dinner was a bit of a joke for people who did not have a clue about Ireland.
How wrong, turns out that corned beef is not only Irish, but ancient. The Irish were eating making corned beef at least 600 years ago.

Revival of ancient corned beef cure
Published: 18 April, 2011
O’Doherty’s Fine Meats has launched a luxury corned beef, which is based on a 600-year-old-recipe.
‘Fermanagh Black Corned Beef’ is sourced from local suppliers, then salted and cured for three months. It is sold as a joint or pre-sliced.
Pat O’Doherty, managing director of O’Doherty’s Fine Meats in Enniskillen, said: “The new corned beef carries forward one of Ireland’s traditional staple foods. The new Fermanagh Black Corned Beef is cured naturally like ham and is not processed. It most definitely won’t become a tinned meat.
“What we have done is to adapt the original recipe to create an old-fashioned and high-quality corned beef that’s completely natural, using quality beef that’s totally traceable, from Aberdeen Angus cattle reared naturally on the shores of Lough Erne.”
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O’Doherty developed the corned beef recipe after studying historic documents in his local library. The company previously brought out a range of old-fashioned, traditionally cured Fermanagh Black Bacon and published a cook book detailing ancient curing methods.
The new corned beef is already on sale in outlets in Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, grate britain and the Republic of Ireland.
In the last six months, demand for fore-quarter beef and tightening supply in the South American market has pushed the price of corned beef up.

I actually quite like the taste of the tin corned beef, never ever had it as a main dinner.
Anyone know if this old Irish recipe for corned beef is very different to the tin corned beef.

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