Raw Beef Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Make the tea
Place the minced beefsteak in a bowl with the cold water.
Let it soak for 20 minutes.
Strain the mixture and serve.
Serve
To make it more palatable, serve in spoonfuls or through a tube.
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
- Beefsteak
- Provides the main flavour and protein that dissolve into the cold water.
- Cold water
- Draws out soluble meat juices and flavour during the soak without cooking the meat.
The step that matters
Soaking the minced beef in cold water. Cold water extracts the flavourful, soluble compounds from the meat gradually. Using warm or hot water would begin cooking and firming the proteins, which can trap flavour and make the liquid cloudy.
“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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