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Beef Juice

A simple beef broth made by mincing beef, adding cold water, pressing through a sieve, and seasoning with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Beef Juice

Beef Juice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mince the beef finely.

Extract the broth

  1. Gradually add the cold water and squeeze with the back of a silver spoon.

  2. Let it stand for a few minutes.

  3. Press through a fine wire sieve.

Season and serve

  1. Add salt and serve.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Fresh raw lean beef
Provides the meat whose flavour and dissolved proteins are extracted into the cold water.
Cold water
Draws out soluble flavour and protein from the minced beef without cooking it.

The step that matters

Gradually add the cold water and squeeze. Adding water slowly and squeezing the mince releases soluble flavour and protein into the liquid. Cold water keeps the proteins from setting, so the broth stays clear and the extraction is gentle.

“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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