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Originally Posted by Allegiance
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1. Is your grandmother REALLY still alive?
2. I am now an orphan with the death of my mother at 86.
3. Around here, many would need to look up what Schmalz is.
4. I remember a guy who used to sell pickles out of a wooden barrel on Canal Street. You cannot make a good pickle without a wooden barrel. Oh and if you were to try to make them in a wooden barrel the food inspectors would probably close you down. I'm not sure if the place is even still there. I quit buying pickesa from him when I saw him sneeze into the barrel. TRUTH-he saw me look and declared. "It adds to the flavor.
5. NY Corned beef is KOSHER corned beef and Hebrew National controls it. You must have a Kosher deli to get it and there are only less than 20 Kosher Delis left in the United States.
6. Corned beef is yet another used to be cheap. Brisket, used to be cheap as it is flavorful but TOUGH. Cook time is like THREE HOURS and it shrinks by about 1/3. Here, the packaged corned beef is at best OK if you know how to pick a good one and how to cook it. As you loose at least 1/3 even more when you trim off the fat, you can buy the already cooked stuff from Two Jays for the same or lower cost.
7. It is GONE-just like inexpensive good quality caviar. Perhaps, it gets better in memory than it really was.