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Beef Tea

A simple beef tea made with bouillon, boiling water, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the bouillon in a cup with a little cold water.

  2. Pour in the boiling water while stirring continuously.

  3. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

  4. Serve with salt biscuits, coffee rusks, or a slice of crustless toast.

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

Bouillon
Provides the concentrated beef flavour that forms the whole drink.

“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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