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Eaw Beef Tea

A beverage made by steeping beef steak in cold water for one hour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Eaw Beef Tea

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scrape the meat across the grain.

  2. Add the scraped meat to the cold water and let it stand for one hour, stirring occasionally.

  3. Strain the mixture.

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

Beef steak
Supplies the meat whose flavour and juices are extracted into the water.

“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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