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Method for Making Raw Meat Juice

A beverage made by mincing raw mutton and soaking it in cold water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Method for Making Raw Meat Juice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Finely mince the raw mutton.

  2. Place the minced meat in an earthen vessel.

  3. Pour enough cold water over the meat to cover it.

  4. Let it stand inside the fender.

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

Lean raw mutton
Provides the muscle proteins and flavour that pass into the liquid as juice.
Cold water
Draws soluble proteins and flavour compounds out of the minced meat into the liquid.

“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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