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Beef Tea

A simple beef broth made by simmering lean beef in water for an hour, then straining and seasoning with salt.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the beef into small, thin pieces.

  2. Boil the beef with the water in a covered saucepan.

  3. Let it simmer for one hour.

  4. Strain the mixture and serve with salt.

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 flavor and savory body that the broth is built on.
Water
Acts as the cooking liquid that extracts flavor and gelatin from the beef.

“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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