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Beef Tea

A simple beef broth made by steeping beef pieces in water with acid and salt, then heating.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. Combine the beef pieces, water, hydrochloric acid, and salt in a container.

  2. Let the mixture stand for a few hours.

  3. Strain the liquid off.

Serve

  1. Heat the strained liquid to about 100°F before serving.

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 protein and flavor that the liquid draws out during soaking.

“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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