Beef-tea
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the beef in cold water for 30 minutes to draw out nutrients.
Make the beef tea
Place the beef and water in a double saucepan or a covered jar.
Put the jar in a saucepan of boiling water.
Simmer for 3 hours without boiling.
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
- Provides the meat flavour and dissolved proteins that give the tea its body and savoury taste.
- Water
- Extracts flavour and soluble compounds from the beef as it heats gently over time.
The step that matters
Simmer for 3 hours without boiling. Gentle, steady heat draws flavour out of the meat slowly. Boiling would toughen the proteins and make the tea cloudy and less clear.
“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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