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Quick Beef Tea

A simple broth made by boiling finely chopped gravy beef in water for five minutes.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the gravy beef into very fine pieces, removing all skin and fat.

  2. Place the beef in a saucepan with an equal weight of water.

Cook and serve

  1. Bring the saucepan to a boil quickly.

  2. Boil for five minutes.

  3. Pour the broth into a cup.

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

Gravy beef
Supplies the meat flavor and dissolved protein that give the broth its taste and body.
Water
Extracts the beef's flavor and juices as it heats, forming 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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