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Raw-meat Diet

A diet consisting of pounded raw rump steak mixed with water and seasoned with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Raw-meat Diet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the meat

  1. Remove all fat from the rump steak.

  2. Cut the steak into small squares without fully separating the meat.

  3. Place the meat in a mortar.

Pound and warm

  1. Pound the meat for 5–10 minutes.

  2. Add 3–4 tablespoons of water.

  3. Pound again briefly.

  4. Remove all sinew or fiber.

  5. Add salt to taste.

  6. Warm the pounded meat in a cup or jar placed in hot water.

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

Rump steak
Provides the meat, which pounding breaks down into a soft, smooth, spreadable texture.

The step that matters

Warm the pounded meat gently. Overheating would begin to cook the protein and firm it up, undoing the soft texture that pounding has created. Warming in hot water rather than over direct heat keeps the heat gentle.

“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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