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Beef Tea for Convalescents

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Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Beef
  2. a teaspoonful of salt
  3. a pint of cold water

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. One pound of lean beef prepared as above.
  2. Add a pint of cold water,--rain-water is best,--and soak for an hour.
  3. Cover closely, and boil for ten minutes;
  4. or put in the oven, and let it remain an hour.
  5. Pour off the juice, season with half a teaspoonful of salt, and use.
  6. A little celery salt makes a change.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes, by Helen Campbell (1893). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #15360 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15360). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.