To Drain Beef Gravy
Ingredients
Directions
Cut the coarse beef into thin pieces.
Place the beef in a stewpan and cover it.
Do not add water or butter; sprinkle a few grains of salt over the beef.
Cook it on the side of the fire until the gravy is extracted.
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
- Coarse beef
- Provides the meat juices that are slowly drawn out to form the gravy.
“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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