Beef Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Pour cold water over the chopped beef and let it stand for 1 hour.
Set the mixture on the back of the stove and simmer slowly for about 45 minutes.
Strain the liquid and season with salt before serving.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Lean beef
- Provides the meat flavor and dissolved protein that give the broth its body.
- Cold water
- Extracts flavor from the beef as it stands and then simmers, forming the broth.
The step that matters
Simmer slowly rather than boil. A gentle simmer draws flavor out of the beef gradually, while a hard boil makes the broth cloudy and can toughen the meat.
“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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