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A Dripping Crust

A liquid fat made by boiling beef dripping in water, then straining and cooling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the beef dripping in water.

  2. Strain the mixture.

  3. Let it stand until cold.

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

Beef dripping
Provides the fat that gives the finished dish its richness and flavour.

“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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