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Beef Gravy

A simple gravy made by simmering lean beef in water until reduced.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Beef Gravy

Beef Gravy

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill a small saucepan with water and add the beef to the saucepan.

  2. Simmer until the liquid is reduced to 1 pint.

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

Lean beef
Provides the meaty flavour that the reduced liquid carries into the gravy.

“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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