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Beef-juice

A cup of beef juice extracted by squeezing a freshly cut beef piece, seasoned with sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Beef-juice

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Cook the beef

  1. Broil the beef over red-hot coals for about 2 minutes on each side.

Make the juice

  1. Place a cup in a bowl of boiling water.

  2. Squeeze the beef juice into the cup using a lemon squeezer.

  3. Add a pinch of salt and keep the cup in the hot water until needed.

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 juice itself, which is the whole dish, so its freshness and lean cut matter.

“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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