Baron Liebig's Quick Beef Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Cut the gravy beef very fine, removing all skin and fat.
Place the beef in a saucepan with an equal weight of water.
Cook and serve
Bring the saucepan to a boil quickly.
Boil for five minutes, then pour the liquid into a cup.
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
- Gravy beef
- Supplies the meat flavor and dissolved protein and extractives that give the tea its savory 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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