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Speck
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Speck can refer to a number of European cured pork products, typically salted and air-cured and often lightly smoked but not cooked. In Germany, speck is pickled pork fat with or without some meat in it. In the Netherlands and Flanders, in Dutch, spek [sic] is bacon. Throughout much of the rest of Europe and parts of the English-speaking culinary world, speck is usually South Tyrolean speck, a type of Italian smoked ham. The term speck became part of popular parlance only in the eighteenth century and replaced the older term bachen, a cognate of bacon.[citation needed]

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Speck Alto Adige PGISouth Tyrolean speck
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Smoked speck
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Regional varieties

There are a number of regional varieties of speck, including:

  • Bacon, e.g. Frühstücksspeck ("breakfast speck") in Germany
  • Gailtaler speck from Austria, with PGI status, which has been made since the 15th century in the Gail Valley ("Gailtal") in Carinthia[1]
  • Schinkenspeck, German "ham bacon", typically made from a flat cut of ham with fat along one side resembling bacon, and traditionally soaked for several days in brine with juniper berries and peppercorn
  • Speck Sauris PGI, from Sauris, Friuli, Italy
  • Speck Alto Adige PGI, from South Tyrol, Italy
  • Tyrolean speck from Austria's Tyrol region, which has PGI status, and has been made since at least the 15th century[2]
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Jewish deli speck

In Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, in which bacon (like all pork) is forbidden as unkosher, "speck" commonly refers to the subcutaneous fat on a brisket of beef. It is a particular speciality of delis serving Montreal-style smoked meat, where slices of the fatty cut are served in sandwiches on rye bread with mustard, sometimes in combination with other, leaner cuts.[3]

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