Name: Beef Tea
Ingredients: 1 piece of lean beef; 1 quart of water; coarse sea salt to taste

Beef Tea

Ingredients

1 piece of lean beef
1 quart of water
coarse sea salt to taste

Directions

Cut the beef into small, thin bits.
Boil the beef with the water in a covered saucepan.
Let it simmer for 1 hour.
Strain the mixture and serve with salt.

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 flavor and savory richness that gives the broth its character.
Water: Serves as the cooking liquid that extracts flavor and gelatin from the beef during simmering.

“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.