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Raw Beef Tea

A chilled beverage made by soaking minced raw beef in water and salt, then squeezing out the juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Raw Beef Tea

Raw Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mince the steak and place it in a bowl with the salt and cold water.

  2. Let it soak for two hours.

Strain and serve

  1. Squeeze the mixture through a meat or lemon squeezer.

  2. Serve the juice ice cold in a claret-colored glass.

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 steak (top round)
Provides the beef flavor and the juice that becomes the tea.

“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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