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Beef Tea

A simple broth made by pouring boiling water over sliced beef, then cooling or boiling briefly and seasoning with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water over the sliced beef.

  2. Let it cool enough to drink, or boil for 2 minutes.

  3. Add a little salt to taste.

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

Lean beef
Provides the meat flavour and protein that the broth is built from.

“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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