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Quickly-made Beef Tea

A simple beef tea made by boiling finely chopped beef in water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Quickly-made Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove any fat from the beef and chop it as finely as possible.

  2. Soak the chopped beef in its own weight of water for about 10 minutes.

  3. Heat the mixture to boiling point and let it boil for 2 to 3 minutes.

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
Supplies the meaty flavour and dissolved protein that give the tea its savoury taste.

“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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