Ophelia wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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> "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.
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> I mean from raw beef.
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> 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
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> 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.

Ok, reading up but i used at least 4 with raw beef, It seemed what you
needed.

1 uses Kosher aalt and another table salt.
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