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Article: Corned beef a classic|New England Broiled Dinner
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- Courier News (Elgin, IL)
- Article date:
- March 15, 2006
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Steam rose from large silver vats as briskets of meat bubbled in 185-degree water.
These weren't just any cuts of meat, but corned beef briskets being cooked to perfection at the Vienna Sausage Manufacturing Company headquarters in Chicago.
During a tour of the company's plant last week, employees were in the process of preparing a few thousand pounds of corned beef - just a small part of the more than 500,000 pounds produced during the busy St. Patrick's Day season.
Corned beef and St. Patrick's Day are synonymous. The signature corned beef and cabbage meal graces many tables in honor of the day when everyone is Irish.
Given the popularity of the meat, we were curious just how it is ...