Mark Kurlansky, in his book Salt, states that the Irish produced a salted beef around the Middle Ages that was the "forerunner of what today is known as Irish corned beef" and in the 17th century, the English named the Irish salted beef "corned beef".
馬克‧科蘭斯基（Mark Kurlansky）在著作《Salt》中提到，愛爾蘭在中世紀就製作一種鹽漬牛肉，也是「現代愛爾蘭粗鹽醃牛肉（Irish corned beef）的前身」，十七世紀時英國人將其命名為「corned beef」。