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Beef Tea

A simple beef broth made by simmering beef cubes in water for hours.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove all fat from the round steak and cut it into ½ inch cubes.

  2. Place the cubes in a glass fruit jar and pour cold water over them.

  3. Let the mixture soak for 30 minutes.

Heat and steep

  1. Set the jar in a kettle of cold water and heat gradually.

  2. Once the water reaches boiling point, remove the kettle and let it sit for 5 hours without using a radiator.

Strain and serve

  1. Strain the liquid, heat it over hot water, add salt to taste, and serve.

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

Round steak
Supplies the meat flavor and dissolved protein that give the broth its taste and body.

“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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