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Beef Tea

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  • Home canning. Old canning methods can let botulism through. Use current tested canning guidance.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. 1 cup cold water
  2. Beef
  3. Cut
  4. Must

Cook safely

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

  • 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.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. 1 pound lean beef 1 cup cold water Cut beef into small pieces or put through meat chopper.
  2. Put into fruit jar;
  3. add cold water and allow to stand 15 to 20 minutes to draw out juice.
  4. Place on trivet or rack in pan of cold water and heat very slowly for about 2 hours.
  5. The water must not boil.
  6. Season, strain, cool and remove fat.
  7. Serve hot or cold.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Sieve
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From The New Dr. Price Cookbook, by Royal Baking Powder Company (1921). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #13669 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13669). 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.