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Cold Beef Tea

Cold Beef Tea is a chilled beverage made by steeping small pieces of beef in boiling water and cooling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Cold Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the beef into very small pieces.

Make the beef tea

  1. Place the beef in a jar and pour boiling water over it.

  2. Put the jar in a pan of boiling water and heat on the stove.

  3. Once cooled, strain the mixture through a muslin sieve.

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
Provides the main flavour and protein that dissolves into the liquid.

“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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