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Beef Tea

A simple infusion made by boiling beef pieces in water, optionally seasoned with salt.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the beef tea

  1. Cut the beef into small pieces and place it in a tightly corked bottle.

  2. Submerge the bottle in a kettle of warm water and bring the water to a boil.

  3. Allow the water to boil for a considerable time.

  4. Remove the bottle and pour out the contents.

  5. Optionally, add a little salt to the tea and serve 1 teaspoon at a time.

Alternative: juice a steak

  1. Alternatively, broil a thick steak slightly until the juices start to flow.

  2. Squeeze the steak thoroughly with a lemon squeezer to extract the juice.

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

Lean beef
Provides the meat juices that are extracted to make the tea, giving its flavor and nourishment.

“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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