A Selection of Beef Products

Beef products are plentiful, Smoked or Cured. Pastrami above can also be Home Made as well as shop bought.  It is made from a Sugar and Salt Cured Beef Brisket. The Beef Brisket once rendered and aged is then sliced usually thin rather than thick.

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Beef Brisket which is the cut of Meat to make Pastrami.

Pastrami can be used to make lovely Sandwiches. It can also be diced then included in Scrambled Eggs, with chopped Parsley and shavings of Black Truffle. Pastrami could easily be part of ingredients to compose a very decent Hash. 

Other products I am particularly liking a lot as snacks are Biltong and Beef Jerky. Both are Dried Beef. Smoked or/and rubbed with Spices they are rather tasty. On the sofa watching TV, in little bowls they makes perfect snacks.

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Beef Jerky and Biltong.

There is of course Salted Beef which can make, be part of Sandwiches. The one I like to do is fairly simple: toasted slices of Brown Bread, spread with Creamed Horseradish, Baby Gem Lettuce Leaves, either pickled Radishes slices, or chopped Gherkins, a couple of Salted Beef slices 'Et Voilà'. An easy Sandwich à la Cordy but you must cut it in a triangle à la English.

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Salt Beef, like Pastrami, it has similar usage: Sandwiches, Hash... But you can also use them to wrap around an ingredient like a nice soft Poached Egg for a quirky Breakfast.

Another Beef product to mention is Corned Beef. It did help so many people over so many years. It did went out of fashion for a good while, decades but I do not know if it is due to the Covid Pandemic, self isolation, the shortage of food due to Brexit but people in England are turning back to Corned Beef. The former generations are teaching the younger ones how to cope during a crisis.

The resurgence of Corned Beef. 

The link above is an article from 'The Grocer' Magazine explaining the raise in sale for Corned Beef.

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Corned Beef Slices.

But we usually remember Corned Beef in a tin shape. This is a handy preservation for the long run...

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Corned Beef in Tin as most of us know it and store it.

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Pastrami
A Selection of Pastrami
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Salt Cured Beef
A Selection of Salt Cured Beef
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Corned Beef
A Selection of Corned Beef
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Canned Ox/Beef Tongue
A Selection of Canned Ox/Beef Tongue