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Broiled Beef Tea

A broth made by broiling beef, extracting its juices with boiling water, and seasoning with coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Broiled Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Broil the beef for 1 minute on each side.

  2. Cut the beef into small pieces.

  3. Pour the boiling water over the beef and squeeze it to extract the juice.

  4. Season the juice with 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.

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What each ingredient does

Beef
Provides the meaty flavor and the juice that forms the broth.

The step that matters

Pour the boiling water over the beef and squeeze it to extract the juice. The hot water helps draw the juices out of the meat, and squeezing releases them. Too little pressure leaves the broth weak in flavor. The broth is made from the juice of the meat rather than from long simmering, so the extraction matters most.

“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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