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Raw Beef Juice

A drink made by mixing finely minced beef with cold water, letting it stand, then straining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Raw Beef Juice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the beef juice

  1. Combine the minced beef with the cold water in a bowl.

  2. Cover and let it stand, stirring occasionally, for two hours.

Strain and serve

  1. Strain the mixture through a fine wire sieve, pressing the meat with the back of a spoon.

  2. Serve the liquid in a colored glass.

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

Finely minced beef
Provides the meat whose juices are extracted into the cold water.
Cold water
Draws out the soluble juices from the meat through slow soaking without cooking it.

“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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