SC - Bukkenade challenge

[Siegfried Heydrich]

Balthazar of Blackmoor wrote:
>Some of the ladies brought a platter of meat (almost like cappacola) which,
>they said, had been cured in red pepper.  It was fantastic!
(snip)
>  Anyone have any idea what that
>cured meat may have been called?

Sounds like basterma to me. Essentially the forerunner or source of 
what we call pastrami. I've bought it in Armenian groceries.

Anahita al-shazhiyya