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Beef Tea

A simple beef tea made by simmering tenderloin in boiling water and seasoning with coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the tenderloin steak into small bits.

  2. Place the steak bits into a wide-mouthed bottle.

Make the beef tea

  1. Submerge the bottle in a kettle of boiling water for 4 to 5 hours.

  2. Strain off the juice and season with coarse sea salt to taste.

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

Tenderloin steak
Provides the meat whose juices are slowly extracted into the liquid.

“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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