Beef-tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Combine the minced beef and cold water in a jar and stir well.
Let the mixture stand for 1 hour.
Simmer
Place the jar in a saucepan filled with cold water and bring to a simmer.
Simmer gently for 2 hours.
Finish
Add salt to taste and strain through a coarse strainer or sieve.
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 savory flavor and the dissolved meat solids that give the tea its taste and body.
The step that matters
Simmering gently in the water bath. Keeping the water at a gentle simmer rather than a hard boil lets the flavor leach out slowly. Boiling would make the liquid cloudy and toughen the meat proteins.
“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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