Boiled Beef
Ingredients
Directions
Remove the beef from the brine.
Quickly wash it in cold water or wipe it with a cloth.
Boil the beef until cooked through.
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
- Flank of beef
- Forms the main body of the dish, and its connective tissue softens into tender meat during long cooking.
“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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