Beep Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Mince the beef finely and place it in a preserve jar or suitable vessel.
Pour the cold water over the beef and stir.
Let it stand for about 1 hour.
Cook and serve
Place the jar in a saucepan of water and bring the water to a gentle boil for 1 hour.
Remove the jar and strain the contents into a bowl.
Season the beef tea with coarse sea salt to taste and serve.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Lean beef
- Provides the meat flavour and dissolves into the liquid to make the broth rich.
- Cold water
- Extracts flavour and gelatin from the beef slowly, without toughening the meat.
The step that matters
Bringing the water to a gentle boil. A gentle heat keeps the jar's contents from churning or boiling hard, which would make the broth cloudy. Slow heating draws out flavour cleanly and gently.
“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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