Name: Beef Tea Quickly Made
Ingredients: ½ pound minced beef; ½ pint water

Beef Tea Quickly Made

Ingredients

½ pound minced beef
½ pint water

Directions

Put the minced beef into a saucepan.
Add the water and bring to a boil.
Simmer for a few minutes.
Serve hot.

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

Minced beef: Provides the savoury meat flavour that gives the tea its character.
Water: Extracts flavour from the beef as it heats and forms the liquid base of the tea.

“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.