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Vert Strong Plain Beep Gravy Soup

A hearty beef soup made by simmering beef in water to produce a rich gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Vert Strong Plain Beep Gravy Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the beef

  1. Remove all skin and fat from the beef.

  2. Chop the beef into small pieces, like sausage meat.

Make the soup

  1. Place the chopped beef in a pot and cover with water.

  2. Simmer gently for several hours until the liquid is rich and flavorful.

  3. Strain the liquid to remove the beef pieces before serving.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Beef
Provides the meat flavor and rich body as its juices release into the water during simmering.
Water
Acts as the cooking liquid that extracts flavor and gelatin from the beef.

The step that matters

Simmer gently. Gentle heat extracts flavor and gelatin from the beef slowly, while a rolling boil toughens the meat and can cloud the broth.

“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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