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Beef Tea

A simple beef broth made by boiling or simmering beef with water, then straining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the beef and let it stand on ice overnight or for several hours during the day.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil the beef with water for 15 minutes.

  2. Alternatively, simmer slowly on the back of the stove for 2 hours.

  3. Strain the mixture before serving.

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

Beef
Provides the meat flavor and gelatin that give the broth body as it cooks.
Water
Extracts flavor and collagen from the beef to form the broth.

“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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