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Mutton Tea

A simple mutton broth made by simmering mutton in water with salt, then strained to serve as tea.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Mutton Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, combine the mutton, water, and salt.

  2. Gently stew the mixture for 2 to 3 hours.

  3. Strain the liquid to serve as tea.

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 mutton
Provides the meat flavor and dissolved protein that give the tea its body.

“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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