Beef Tea

A Plain Cookery Book for the Working ... · Francatelli, Charles Elmé · 1852
Source
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
Time
Cook: 30 min Total: 30 min
Yield
1.0 pint
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (3)
Instructions (7)
  1. Chop up a pound of lean beef.
  2. Put the chopped beef into a saucepan with a quart of water.
  3. Stir the mixture occasionally while it boils rather fast for at least half an hour.
  4. At the end of this time, the beef tea will have become reduced to a pint.
  5. Season with salt to taste.
  6. Strain the beef tea through a clean bit of muslin or rag.
  7. Give a tea-cupful of the strained beef tea with dry toast to the patient.
Original Text
No. 175. Beef Tea. 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; at the end of this time the beef tea will have become reduced to a pint; 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.
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