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Raw Beef Tea

A historical recipe from The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information , by Philip E. Muskett.

A historical recipe

The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information by Mrs. H. Wicken, by Philip E. Muskett. Project Gutenberg eBook #4219.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards. Its words name: raw meat or fish. Check current food-safety guidance before following this.

Source and licence

From The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information , by Philip E. Muskett. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #4219 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4219). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Australia. Associated with Australia by the book is about Australian cookery (Cooking, Australian); the recipe itself names no place (confidence 0.4). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

  • Raw or underdone meat. Raw or underdone meat or fish carries a risk. Cook to current safe temperatures.

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Ingredients

  • 1/4 lb Gravy Beef
  • 1 gill of Water Scrape

Method

  1. 1/4 lb Gravy Beef and 1 gill of Water Scrape the meat to a pulp with a sharp knife, pour over it with water;
  2. cover over and stand away for an hour.
  3. Strain off, and it is ready.
  4. As this is given to an invalid in small quantities, very little should be made at a time.