Nutritious Beef Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the beef
Remove all fat, sinew, veins, and bone from the beef.
Cut the beef into pieces smaller than ½ inch.
Soak the beef pieces in ⅓ cup of water for 12 hours.
Simmer and season
Simmer the soaked beef in 1⅔ cups of water for 2 hours, replacing lost water as needed.
Season with coarse sea salt and other condiments to taste.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Fresh lean beef
- Provides the meat flavour and the dissolved protein and savoury compounds that make up the broth.
The step that matters
Simmering gently for 2 hours. Keeping the liquid at a gentle simmer extracts flavour without making the broth cloudy or greasy. Replacing lost water keeps the beef submerged so the broth stays concentrated rather than drying out.
“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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