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Beef Tea for Typhoid Fever

A raw beef tea used to treat typhoid fever.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Beef Tea for Typhoid Fever

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the lean beef into small pieces.

  2. Combine the chopped beef with the water and let it stand for 15 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve raw.

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 protein and flavour that make up the liquid extract.
Water
Draws soluble flavour and nutrients out of the chopped beef as it stands.

“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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