Mutton Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Cut the mutton into small pieces.
In a pot, combine the mutton, water, and salt.
Stew and serve
Gently stew the mixture for 2 to 3 hours.
Strain the liquid to serve as tea.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Lean mutton
- Provides the meat flavour and dissolved protein that give the tea its body and savour.
- Water
- Acts as the solvent that slowly draws flavour and nutrients out of the meat.
The step that matters
Gently stew the mixture. Keeping the heat low and the liquid barely simmering draws flavour out of the meat gradually. A hard boil toughens the meat and clouds the liquid.
“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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