We needed some Guinness for sure! It would have made the entire meal much better. I had some of the best carrot cake I’ve ever eaten.
Still, it was a good meal. The woman who cooked the meat and cabbage is German, and when I got to the serving line, I said, “Mmmm! I love German food!” She giggled and said, “Diz iz Eirush!”
Since cows were used for milk rather than meat in poor times in Ireland, beef was a delicacy that was fed to kings. It was more common to celebrate a holiday meal with what they call a ham (Gammon) or bacon joint. ( a cured but unsmoked piece of pork) with their cabbage and potatoes. When many Irish Immigrants came over in the mid 1800’s they couldn’t find a bacon joint like they had in Ireland, so they found that Jewish corned beef was very similar in texture, and they used that for their holiday celebrations.