Asthma Info: Cream Chipped Beef: How to make the "chipped beef" without getting it from a can...?

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Cream Chipped Beef: How to make the "chipped beef" without getting it from a can...?We'd like to make homemade creamed chipped beef, but all the recipies seem to call for "dried beef" from a jar. We don't eat prepackaged foods (allergies). How can we prepare the beef for this, what cut to buy, etc?

Thanks!

-Rli R
You won't be able to duplicate the flavor or cut at home but what you can do is cook a roast and flake it apart and make your Creamed Chipped Beef recipe with that.

-Joanne A.
I doubt if you will be able to make it at home. Go here for the information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipped_beef

-margarita
I don't know where you're from, but I live in Michigan and we can buy dried beef right in the deli section of our local grocery store (sliced to order). People in other parts of the country (New York for one) have never heard of it. So I guess it's a regional thing.

-Charles C
Takes time. You would need to buy some very lean beef and salt. You might also want to use Sodium Nitrate as additional preservative. You can also, depending on your local grocery stores sometimes find Morton Curing Salt.
Don't say EWWW but Beef tongue is actually a prefered meat for this.
The meat is rubbed every day or packed in the salt cure and then smoked. Hang in a cool dry place to dry. A tongue will take about a month. Aging for longer will develop a more distinct flavor.
But the stuff in a jar has the same ingredients so should not be an allergy problem

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