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Raw Beef Tea

A beverage made by soaking raw beef in cold water with salt, then straining the juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Raw Beef Tea

Raw Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove all fat and skin from the beef and finely shred it with a sharp knife.

  2. Place the shredded beef in a glass or basin with the cold water and salt.

Soak and strain

  1. Cover and let it soak for 2 hours.

  2. Carefully strain and press all the juice from the meat.

Serve

  1. Serve in a colored glass.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Raw beef
Supplies the meat juices that are extracted into the liquid, giving it its flavor and body.

The step that matters

Soaking in cold water. Cold water draws juices and flavor out of the meat slowly and gently, while heat would toughen the proteins and cloud the liquid. Covering the container keeps the meat from drying out during the soak.

“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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