Much like the two American or, at least, adopted American styles, smoked meat, which is made from brisket, is first brined before being smoked. One key difference, though, is the flavoring in the seasoning itself.
While both pastrami and smoked meat utilize black pepper, coriander, garlic and mustard seed as key seasonings, smoked meat uses much less sugar during the curing process than pastrami does. But like pastrami, smoked meat is traditionally served in a sandwich on rye with plenty of mustard. To learn about the best place to try Montreal smoked meat, check out our guide to Quebec's largest city here.
By Max Bonem Updated June 15, For corned beef, the grains of rock salt used in the brine are called "corns" of salt, giving corned beef its name. In both of these cases, when meat is salt-cured, the moisture is drawn out of it, which allows it to be preserved and kept for longer than fresh meat.
Let's hypothetically say you cured two cuts of identical brisket in the exact same brine for the exact same amount of time They'd be pretty similar, right? So, here's where the difference between corned beef and pastrami comes into play. After curing, pastrami is usually coated in a dry rub of spices before it is smoked.
On the other hand, corned beef is boiled. So to break it down, pastrami has a more diverse range of flavors due to the dry rub, and is a little drier due to being smoked. Corned beef is usually juicier from being boiled, and is also saltier. Additionally, corned beef is generally sliced thinner than pastrami. I spoke with Eater's Robert Sietsema, who in wrote an article for Gourmet about the war of the rosy meats. His visit to Schwartz's , Montreal's most famous smoked meat slinger, where he found the smoked meat "smokier and richer" than New York pastrami.
This story , I realized, is going to be harder than I thought. Let's take a few steps back: where do pastrami and smoked meat come from? How did they become fixtures of the Jewish deli pantheon? Early proto-pastrami was sold in Romanian delis in both cities and over time transformed into the two products we know today. Kosher Jews, who made up the majority of Romanian immigrants, could not eat pork, and beef was much more readily available in the United States than it was in Eastern Europe, especially as the meat industry mechanized during the 20th century.
Sietsema agrees with this take but is quick to point out the historical problem: "What Jews brought with them from Romania bears no resemblance to pastrami. So how did they come up with pastrami? That's a real mystery.
The answer, he suspects, is the cross-cultural diffusion that so characterized Jewish ghettos in 19th century North America, where immigrants from a dozen European countries suddenly became neighbors. Around the turn of the 20th century, Jews started to leave New York, New Jersey, and Quebec for cities farther west, and they took their pastrami with them.
When expatriate Montreal Jews struggled to find smoked meat in Toronto and elsewhere, they made their own. Today you can find smoked meat across Canada though it's sometimes called pastrami!
The way Sax sees it, the main differences between pastrami and smoked meat come down to the cut of beef and the spice rub it's coated with. So it's a little bit denser, a lot fattier, and it's less stringy," notes Sax. On the other hand, Montreal-style smoked meat comes from brisket, as navel is much harder to find in Canada because of its British beef cut tradition.
American-style pastrami is more marbled with fat and has a denser texture. In Canadian butchery, the cut called brisket comprises parts of the American brisket and navel combined the two parts are called "whole brisket.
Navel and brisket were once some of the cheapest cuts on a cow, but these days their prices have risen much like short ribs and oxtail. So if you step outside the shrinking world of hardcore Jewish delis you'll find pastrami made with brisket and cheaper cuts like top round. Boar's Head makes a top round pastrami that's much leaner than brisket or navel they also make a pricier brisket version.
As a popular item in an ethnic Jewish delicatessen it would not be pork, because pork is not kosher or halal. Early methods of food preservation before refrigeration consisted of brining and smoking. Various seasonings were added to give it an interesting taste. When being prepared at the deli, pastrami is seasoned with spices most often black pepper and coriander , then smoked in order to create its iconic texture and flavor. Missing: animalMust include: animal.
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EAT Mosta. Wrap your lips around the turkey pastrami sandwich from this adored street food truck that specialises in meat. Like other cured meat, pastrami began as a way for poor folk in this case Jewish immigrants to preserve and improve the flavor and texture of cheap cuts of meat.
While plenty of pastrami is made with any cut of beef brisket, aficionados will tell you that the real deal comes specifically from the navel end. A cured, spiced cut of meat, most commonly beef, enjoyed by all around the world and available at a delicatessen near you. According to The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home, pastrami originates from the jerky-like pastirma, developed by the Ottoman Turks, who dried and salt-cured meat often beef, goat, or mutton as a way to preserve it, then rubbed it with spices.
The recipe migrated to Eastern Europe along the spice route and became a mainstay in Romania, where it was adapted and goose became the preferred meat. Pastrami is smoked corned beef. If you want to get poetic about it, pastrami is a way of going back in time. So is cheese, for that matter. Pastrami is a technology for preserving meat that our ancestors used before refrigerators.
Pastrami is normally made with beef, though it will occasionally have pork, mutton or turkey as well.
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