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Beef Tea

A liquid made by boiling beef in cold water for two hours.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the beef into pieces about one inch square.

  2. Place the beef in a strong bottle and cork it tightly.

  3. Set the bottle in a kettle of cold water.

Cook

  1. Boil for about two hours.

  2. The liquid obtained will be the pure nutrient of the meat.

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 meat whose juices are drawn out to become the broth.

“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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