My wifes family who are Jewish regularly make corned beef here though they call it salt beef. Its the sort of thing where everybody has a recipe and think theirs is best. A good Jewish deli should be able to sell you some.
One of the ingredients is saltpetre which can be difficult now as they assume if you buy it in any quantity you want to make a bomb.

I quite like it but it tends to be cheaper cuts of beef which can be quite fatty.


>I assume it is great, and I'd really like to try it, but it looks a mess on that photo, like some left-overs and stale bread thrown on a plate for the dog! :-)
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>>Ours looks like this:
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corned_beef
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>>Reuben sandwiches are great! :o)
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>>>>>Corned beef I know as like Spam, but very fibrous and less homogeneous therefrom, made of cheap cuts of beef, shredded and mshed up, larded with fat, and, I dunno, maye some addition of cereal for binding/bulking. It's years since I've had it or even looked closely at it, and that was usually in a hash. Essentially, a kind of pate.
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>>>>I think what we call corned beef, you guys call salt beef. We had a friend here from the UK a couple of weeks ago who was very surprised to have corned beef that didn't come out of a tin.
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>Aye, we know it as coming from a can, with a key, like Spam. The best known is from Fray Bentos:
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>>>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FRAY-BENTOS-CORNED-BEEF-COOK-BOOK_W0QQitemZ200087618409QQcategoryZ11107QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
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>>>So if you have corned beef hash it's like salt-beef hash really?