Beef Tea for Infants
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Cut the steak into very small pieces.
Place the meat in a glass jar and cover it with cold water.
Tie the top of the jar securely.
Cook
Put the jar into a saucepan filled with cold water.
Bring to a boil and cook for 3 hours.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Steak
- Provides the meat whose flavour and nutrients are extracted into the liquid as it cooks.
- Cold water
- Draws out the meat's juices gently and forms the liquid tea.
The step that matters
Keeping the jar sealed and the water at a gentle simmer during the long cook. A tightly tied jar keeps the liquid from evaporating or mixing with the saucepan water, so the broth stays concentrated. Starting in cold water and cooking slowly helps extract flavour from the meat gradually.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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