Beef Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Keep water hot but not boiling.
Strain off the first pint of water after a couple of hours.
Mix this with the second pint you strained off.
Make the tea
Add minced meat to a saucepan and pour in 1 pint of boiling water.
Boil for 1 hour, then strain and mix with the first two pints.
Bring the whole mixture to a boil, add salt, and serve.
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
- Minced meat
- Gives the tea its meaty flavour and body as it simmers in the water.
“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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