brisket

     

Brisket is a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest. While all meat animals have a brisket, the term is most often use to describe beef or veal. The beef brisket is one of the eight beef primal cuts. According to the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, the term derives from the Middle English "brusket" which comes from the earlier Old Norse "brjōsk", meaning cartilage.

Trivia about brisket

  • The way she cooked this cut of beef from the breast section under the first 5 ribs--so moist, so tender
  • "Joy of Cooking" recipes for this cut of beef include sweet & sour & tzimmis with potato knaidle
  • Usually sold without the bone, this beef cut is taken from the breast section under the first 5 ribs
  • From a chicken, it's a breast; from a cow, it's called this & Aunt Esther might make a nice one for Pesach

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