Beep Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Sprinkle the steak with salt and cut it into slices.
Place the steak in a large jug or basin and pour boiling water over it.
Stew and strain
Cover and let it stew for 1 hour on the hob.
Transfer the mixture to a pan and boil for 20 minutes.
Strain the liquid and add more water if desired.
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
- Rump steak
- Provides the meat flavour and savoury body that the liquid carries once stewed.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavour and soluble protein from the meat into a thin, drinkable liquid.
The step that matters
Stewing the steak covered over low heat. Gentle, covered stewing draws flavour out of the meat without toughening it. Letting the liquid boil hard or uncovered can make the broth cloudy and the meat dry and stringy.
“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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