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Beef Tea

A tea made by boiling beef steak in water for several hours.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the steak into small pieces.

  2. Place the pieces in a large glass jar with 2 tablespoons of water.

Cook

  1. Cork the jar and set it in a kettle of cold water.

  2. Boil for 3 to 4 hours.

  3. For quicker extraction, chop the meat finely.

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

Steak
Supplies the meat juices and flavour that are drawn out into the liquid during long gentle heating.

“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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