Name: Beef Broth
Ingredients: 1 pound good lean beef, cut into small pieces; 2 quarts cold water; ½ teacup tapioca, soaked in water for 45 minutes

Beef Broth

Ingredients

1 pound good lean beef, cut into small pieces
2 quarts cold water
½ teacup tapioca, soaked in water for 45 minutes

Directions

In a pot, combine the beef and cold water.
Boil slowly for 1.5 hours, keeping the pot covered.
Add the soaked tapioca and boil for an additional 30 minutes.

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: Releases flavor and gelatin into the water, giving the broth body and savoriness.
Tapioca: Starch that thickens the broth as it cooks and adds a slightly silky 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.