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Beef Tea

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Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Salt
  2. a quart of water
  3. Tea
  4. a pound of lean beef
  5. Chop

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. Chop up a pound of lean beef, and put it on to boil in a saucepan with a quart of water, stirring it on the fire occasionally while it boils rather fast, for at least half an hour;
  2. at the end of this time the beef tea will have become reduced to a pint;
  3. season with salt to taste, strain it through a clean bit of muslin or rag, and give a tea-cupful of it with dry toast to the patient.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes, by Charles Elmé Francatelli (1978). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #22114 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22114). 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.