You can make the mix the day before and refrigerate it, which should give you an extra hour in bed HP sauce or tomato ketchup is the ideal partnership. HP sauce or tomato ketchup is the ideal partnership.2 medium onions, peeled and roughly dicedVegetable oil for frying350g new potatoes, peeled, cooked and quartered300g corned beef, dicedSalt and pepper 1tbsp Worcestershire sauce4 free-range eggs Fry the onions in vegetable oil in a covered, thick-bottomed pan until they are soft, stirring occasionally. Then remove the lid and turn up the heat to give them a little colour. Put them into a mixing bowl.Heat some more vegetable oil in a frying pan (cast-iron, preferably) until it is very hot and cook the potatoes a few at a time until they are lightly coloured Add them to the onions Add the corned beef to the onions and potato. Season with salt and pepper, add the Worcestershire sauce and mix well. Leave to cool.Divide the mixture and mould into four flat cakes.

Fry, preferably in a non-stick frying pan or the one the potatoes were fried in, on both sides until they are golden. Keep them warm in the oven once they are cooked.When all the hashes are cooked, fry four eggs, separately, leaving the yolks runny if you can face it Slide one on to each hash.. These make a good accompaniment to a fry-up, or any hot breakfast, really. They also make good pre-dinner snacks ­ you can even crumble in some corned beef for mini corned beef hashes. Put into a bowl, add the grated potato, and mix them together with the egg white Stir in the flour, celery salt and seasoning. If the mixture is a little wet, add more flour.Pre-heat a deep-fat fryer or a heavy-bottomed saucepan filled with about 8cm of oil to 170šC. Test the mixture by rolling a couple of little balls of it in the palm of your hand and dropping them into the hot fat When they are cooked, taste them to check the seasoning.

Then roll the rest into walnut-sized balls and cook in batches.Note: You can half-fry the hash browns in advance, then crisp them up in hot fat before you serve them.. A drug that has been hailed as the “new aspirin” could benefit up to eight million people in Britain by cutting their risk of heart attacks and strokes, a heart specialist said yesterday. A second part of the trial, examining blood pressure treatments, will continue.Early results suggested that statin, whose brand name is Lipitor, could cut heart attacks and strokes by a third. Researchers were astonished by the size of the effect because the patients, including 9,000 from Britain, had normal cholesterol levels and were at only moderate risk of heart disease.The trial is the second in the past year to demonstrate the dramatic benefits of statins. Initially they were thought to help only those at high risk of heart disease, but the latest results suggest people at low risk may gain significantly too.Peter Sever, professor of clinical pharmacology at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London, and one of the trial co-ordinators, said: “There are eight million people with high blood pressure in Britain. But efforts to achieve this by changes in the diet, such as eating less fat and more fruit and vegetables, have largely failed.The discovery of drugs that would cut the level of cholesterol in the blood, independently of dietary habits, was the magic bullet that doctors had been seeking.

Here was a simple, safe means of reducing the toll from heart disease and stroke that is the scourge of the Western world. Heart disease is the biggest single killer in Britain, affecting 2.2 million people and causing 135,000 deaths each year.In November 2001, the most comprehensive trial of statins, known as the Health Protection Study (HPS), conducted in 69 British hospitals and involving more than 20,000 patients, found that it cut heart attacks and strokes by a third in high-risk patients. He said the results were “at least as important as previous findings for aspirin’s effects on heart attacks and strokes … in fact, statins are the new aspirin”.Professor Sir Richard Peto, an Oxford University epidemiologist, said that in 30 years’ work on clinical trials “this is far and away the most important set of results I’ve ever had anything to do with”.When the findings were published in The Lancet three months ago, they were described as “the most far-reaching results for the treatment and prevention of heart disease and strokes that we have seen in a generation”.Statins had, up to that point, mainly been given to middle-aged men with high cholesterol levels who had a history of heart disease or were at high risk of a heart attack. The new findings showed that they were also effective in women, in older people and in those who had average cholesterol levels.Now the European trial, which researchers announced yesterday had been stopped, has confirmed and extended the earlier findings, suggesting that it could cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes by one third.