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Raw Beef Tea

A tea made by soaking raw beef in cold boiled filtered water for two hours.

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

Raw Beef Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scrape the beef with a sharp knife.

  2. Place the scraped beef in a basin with the cold boiled filtered water.

Steep and strain

  1. Cover and let it stand for 2 hours.

  2. Strain the mixture through a fine strainer.

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 flavour and the dissolved protein and savoury extract that make up the tea.
Water
Draws soluble flavour and nutrients out of the scraped beef during the long cold steep.

“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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