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Beef Essence

A clear beef stock made by simmering minced beef in water for an hour.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mince the meat very small.

Make the essence

  1. Place the minced meat into a brown baking jar and cover tightly with a lid or brown paper.

  2. Stand the jar in a saucepan of boiling water for one hour.

  3. Pour off the essence and add a little 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

Gravy beef
Provides the meat whose flavour and juices are extracted into the essence.

“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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