Name: Beef Extract
Ingredients: 1 lb lean beef; ¼ teaspoon coarse sea salt

Beef Extract

Ingredients

1 lb lean beef
¼ teaspoon coarse sea salt

Directions

Prepare the beef and place it in a jar with the salt.
Tie the jar tightly.
Place the jar in a saucepan of cold water and cover it.
Heat the water slowly until it boils, then steam for one hour.
Strain the mixture to obtain pure beef extract.

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 meat proteins and flavour compounds that make up the extract.
Coarse sea salt: Seasons the beef and helps draw out its flavour during steaming.

“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.