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Beef Juice

A broth made by broiling beef and extracting its juice, seasoned with salt and kept warm.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Beef Juice

Beef Juice

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the beef

  1. Broil the beef over red‑hot coals for 2 minutes on each side.

Collect the juice

  1. Place a cup in a bowl of boiling water.

  2. Squeeze the beef juice into the cup using a lemon squeezer.

  3. Add a pinch of salt and keep the cup in the hot water until needed.

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
Supplies the juice itself; broiling sears the surface and deepens its savoury flavour.

“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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