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Beef-tea

A simple broth made by boiling chopped beef in water.

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

Beef-tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the beef into small pieces.

  2. Place the chopped beef in a pot and add cold water equal to its weight.

Simmer

  1. Bring the mixture quickly to a boil.

  2. Simmer for a few minutes to extract the natural juices.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Beef
Releases its natural juices and flavor into the water, giving the broth its savory taste.

The step that matters

Simmer for a few minutes. Keeping the liquid at a gentle simmer, rather than a hard rolling boil, lets juices and flavor extract without agitating fat and proteins into the liquid, which keeps the broth clearer.

“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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