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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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corned beef
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Now an alternative name for bully beef, though in origin they were different. Bully (deriving from the French for boiled, bouilli) was a boiled and pressed concoction; Smollett, offered some in 1753, described it as looking like the flesh of Pharaoh's lean cattle 'stewed into rags and tatters'. Corned beef was taken a stage further; the corns were grains of salt, forming the brine in which it was pickled.
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