"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> Of course it depends on what one means by corned beef from "scratch...
> could be from raw beef to already corned but raw to fully cooked to
> opening a tin.

I mean from raw beef.

For corning raw beef from scratch the main ingredients
> are salts, can even omit nitrite if one doen't mind greyish beef. One
> can see red pepper flakes is listed last so there's very little, and
> even most can be winnowed out with gentle blowing... or is that
> genital blowing? heh

You will have to ask Jill about the latter since she made a big deal of it
in an earlier post but I am very interested in what you say about not having
to use spices.


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