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Quick Beef Tea

A quick beef tea made by poaching steak in hot water with lemon juice and coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Quick Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the round steak into pieces the size of your hand.

  2. Poil the steak quickly on both sides to retain the juice.

Make and serve

  1. Squeeze the juice from the steak into the hot cup of water.

  2. Add a little coarse sea salt and serve immediately.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Round steak
Provides the meat and the juice that gives the tea its flavor and body.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the savory beef flavor.

The step that matters

Cooking the steak quickly on both sides. A brief, high-heat cook sets the outer surface so juices stay inside the meat. Overcooking toughens the protein and squeezes out the moisture you need for the tea.

“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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