Nick

Although Brighton is referred to as "Little London-on-Sea", AFAIK we don't have any jewish delis, per se, but next time I'm passing one now I think I'll enquire about "corned" or "salt-" beef.

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