Beef-Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the beef in cold water overnight.
In the morning, remove the beef and save the soaking water.
Cook and serve
Place the beef in a pot with the saved water.
Heat gently without boiling, stirring occasionally.
After cooking, remove any fat from the surface.
Serve warm.
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
- Provides the savory meat flavor that slowly dissolves into the soaking and cooking water.
The step that matters
Heat gently without boiling. Boiling makes the liquid cloudy and toughens the meat proteins, while gentle heat draws out flavor more cleanly. Stirring occasionally helps the heat spread evenly.
“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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