[Sca-cooks] brisket

Saint Phlip phlip at 99main.com
Wed Oct 1 07:21:51 PDT 2008


Wikipedia has a good picture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisket

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
<adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> On Oct 1, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Heleen Greenwald wrote:
>
>> Could someone please tell me what cut of meat brisket is in english?
>>  First off, I thought the word brisket WAS English, but I was told no. Then
>> I told this person that brisket was the the best or first cut of
>> roast....... what do I know? Could someone please enlighten me.
>
> At the risk of sounding a little gruesome, I find the best teaching tool for
> locating meat cuts on domestic meat quadrupeds is to imagine yourself on
> your hands and knees, with a line drawn down along your spine, another from
> between your collarbones, along your sternum, and down to your crotch, and
> two more drawn from your armpit, along your ribs, down to your hip.
> Essentially, your body will be divided into quadrants. If it makes you feel
> better, imagine doing it with pink lipstick, children's face paint, or
> chocolate sauce ;-)
>
> Brisket would be located, if you were a cow or I a cannibal, which we're
> not, but work with me here, along the front of your rib cage, approximately
> from your armpit to your middle ribs, and from the center line of your
> sternum to the middle of your ribs.
>
> Does that help?
>
> Adamantius
>
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> "Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls, when we
> all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's bellies."
>                        -- Rabbi Israel Salanter
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