Name: Mutton Tea
Ingredients: ½ lb lean mutton; ½ pint water; 4 teaspoons salt

Mutton Tea

Ingredients

½ lb lean mutton
½ pint water
4 teaspoons salt

Directions

Stew the mutton in water for 2 to 3 hours.
Strain the liquid and serve warm.

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

Mutton: Gives the broth its meaty flavour and richness as it stews.
Water: Acts as the cooking liquid that extracts flavour and gelatin from the meat.

“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.