To Make Beef Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Cut the beef into thin slices.
Place the beef in a jar and pour the boiling water over it.
Cover the jar tightly to retain steam.
Let it steep and drink warm.
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 beef
- Provides the savory flavor and dissolved protein that give the tea its body.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavor and soluble compounds from the beef into the liquid.
The step that matters
Cover the jar tightly to retain steam. Covering keeps heat and steam trapped so the water stays hot and extracts flavor from the beef efficiently. Letting heat escape would cool the liquid too quickly and leave the tea weaker and less flavorful.
“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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