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Beef Tea

A simple broth made by simmering lean beef in water for several hours.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the beef into small pieces.

  2. Place the beef in a jar with the water.

  3. Cork the jar tightly.

Cook

  1. Set the jar in a boiler and cook for 3 to 4 hours.

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 flavor and dissolved proteins that give the broth its body.

“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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