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  • He stopped rowing long enough to fish about in the water around his feet for an old cornbeef can.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • I'd give that a try I know the product I used to make the cornbeef worked like a charm and takes all the guess work out.

    Black-eyed pea dip for a new year | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

  • I too went on a search for salt peter (I wanted to make my own cornbeef) but was told that was not such a great idea and perhaps prague powder would be a safer choice, not to mention easier to use.

    Black-eyed pea dip for a new year | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

  • The smell of fried plantain, cornbeef, eggplant, fried dumplings and saltfish would drift upstairs to our bedrooms and rouse us my brothers and I out of our beds.

    Food and Life Renee 2009

  • The smell of fried plantain, cornbeef, eggplant, fried dumplings and saltfish would drift upstairs to our bedrooms and rouse us my brothers and I out of our beds.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Renee 2009

  • We've got to think of that fourth baby, the big sandwich, the big cornbeef sandwich.

    CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2005 2005

  • Carol had not dared to look into the farther room while she labored over the supper of beer, rye bread, moist cornbeef and cabbage, set on the kitchen table.

    Main Street 2004

  • If I was housekeeper here, an 'cud have hothouse strawberries, an' swatebreads undher glass, an 'sparrowgrass, an' chicken, _an'_ ice crame, the way you can, whiniver yuh loike, I wouldn't be a-eatin 'cornbeef an' cabbage.

    Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

  • I would buy a piece of cornbeef and boil it with rutabagas or other vegetables and was careful to save all the juice to cook the next meal with.

    Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray 1924

  • We hurried down the ladder to gobble up what was left of the cornbeef and potatoes ....

    Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

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