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Beef Juice

A simple beef broth made by broiling lean beef and seasoning with coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Beef Juice

Beef Juice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the beef on a broiler over a clear, hot fire.

  2. Broil until heated through, about 20 minutes.

  3. Squeeze the juice into a hot cup and add the salt.

  4. Serve hot with toast or crackers.

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

Lean beef
Provides the juice that becomes the broth, so leanness and juiciness matter for flavour.
Coarse sea salt
Seasons the finished broth and brings out its meaty flavour.

“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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