Raw Beef Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Cut the beef into small pieces.
Place the beef in a bowl and cover with cold water.
Let it soak for at least 45 minutes, stirring often.
Serve
Strain the liquid to serve.
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 flavour and dissolved protein that give the liquid its body and savour.
- Cold water
- Draws soluble flavour and juices out of the beef gradually as it soaks.
The step that matters
Soaking the beef in cold water. Cold water extracts flavour from the meat slowly while keeping it from tightening. Cutting the beef small increases the surface exposed to the water, so the soak works more thoroughly.
“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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