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Beef Tea

A broth made by boiling thinly sliced beef with coarse sea salt and straining the liquid.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the beef in a jar or wide-mouthed bottle and add the salt.

  2. Submerge the jar in a kettle of boiling water and let it cook for 1 hour.

  3. Strain the mixture to obtain the liquid.

  4. Start with 1 teaspoon and increase as tolerated.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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

Beef
Supplies the meat flavor and the liquid that is extracted by cooking and straining.

“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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