Name: To Draw Good Gravy
Ingredients: gravy beef; cold water

To Draw Good Gravy

Ingredients

gravy beef
cold water

Directions

Cut the gravy beef into small pieces.
Place the beef in a jar and set it in a saucepan filled with cold water.
Boil gently for 7 to 8 hours, adding more water as needed to maintain the original quantity.
Use the resulting gravy as a concentrated essence 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.