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Boiled Beef

A large piece of fresh beef boiled in water with coarse sea salt, broth reserved.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the beef in water for one hour.

  2. Add coarse sea salt to the boiling water.

  3. Remove the beef and reserve the broth for use.

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

Fresh beef
Provides the meat that softens and becomes tender during long, gentle boiling.
Coarse sea salt
Seasons the boiling water so the resulting broth is flavoured.

“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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