Name: Beef Tea
Ingredients: 1 pound lean beef, chopped fine; 1 pint cold water; salt to taste

Beef Tea

Ingredients

1 pound lean beef, chopped fine
1 pint cold water
salt to taste

Directions

Pour cold water over the chopped beef and let it stand for 1 hour.
Set the mixture on the back of the range and simmer slowly for about 45 minutes.
Strain the liquid and add salt when serving.

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 beef: Provides the meat flavour and dissolves into the liquid to give the tea its taste and body.
Cold water: Draws out the soluble flavour and protein from the beef as it stands and then simmers.

“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.