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Beef Pastrami Savoy

$9.49 Beef Pastrami Savoy If you’ll indulge us for just a moment, we’d love talk about the origins of beef pastrami. Prior to refrigeration, consuming meat posed various health concerns. Your choices were limited to eating all the meat in one sitting or salting the meat. Salting the meat was a wonderful way of preserving your meat. Beef pastrami is a salted meat, soaked in a cold brine for several weeks. Savoy Brand beef pastrami is corned beef that’s been smoked, which adds one of a kind flavor. Since beef pastrami was first created as a way of preserving meat by using salt, this fact is reflected in its name. Pastrami come from the Romanian word pastra, "to preserve." Contemporary chefs have acknowledged that there is no specific procedure in making pastrami and have decided that if something looks sort of like pastrami and tastes sort of like pastrami, they can call it pastrami. So now there are multiple types of pastrami such as duck pastrami, turkey pastrami, tuna pastrami and salmon pastrami. There are many ways to prepare pastrami for the whole family. Some of the tastiest ways of using pastrami is by making a smoked corned beef brisket or putting together a hot pastrami sandwich with all your favorite ingredients. It's certainly a lunchtime staple for many families across America and the world alike.