Beef Tea (Diabetic)

Ingredients

• b lb. beef steak
• 1 teaspoonful Plasmon
• 1 pinch of salt

Method

1. 1

   Shred beef finely and place in water with salt and Plasmon; let it stand for about 1 hour.

2. 2

   Then cook gently for 20 minutes without boiling, stirring well while cooking.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Plasmon cookery book (1904) by International Plasmon Limited, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BEEF TEA (Diabetic).— Ingredients : b lb. beef steak; \ pint water ; 1 teaspoonful Plasmon ; 1 pinch of salt. Method. — Shred beef finely and place in the water, to which the salt and Plasmon have been added, and let it stand about 1 hour ; then put into a jar or saucepan, and cook gently for 20 minutes. Do not let it boil ; stir well while cooking. Beef-tea jelly may be made in the same way, using 1 gill water, 1 teaspoonful Plasmon. 55 120. MUSHROOM CUTLETS (Diabetic).— Ingredients: l lb. mushrooms ; i oz. butter ; i tablespoonful thick Flasmon stock ; I teaspoonful cream ; i egg ; seasoning to taste ; i table- spoonful dry Flasmon ; frying fat. Method. — Prepare mushrooms, melt butter in a saucepan, and stew mushrooms in it till tender ; chop finely or rub through sieve; then add Plasmon stock, cream, and seasoning. When cold and stiff shape into cutlets, brush over with egg, and sprinkle with dry Plasmon ; fry in boiling fat. Serve with brown gravy. 121. TOMATO CUTLETS (Diabetic). — Ingredients : i lb. tomatoes; ig tablespoonfuls Plasmon; i oz. butter: x tablespoonful cream ; i egg; seasoning to taste ; frying fat. Method. — Stew the tomatoes in butter until tender ; rub through sieve, return pulp to saucepan, mix in i tablespoonful of Plasmon slowly, add cream and seasoning. Cook gently until quite thick, but do not boil ; pour on to a plate ; when cold shape into cutlets, brush over with egg, and sprinkle with Plasmon ; fry in boiling fat. Serve with brown gravy. 122. BAKED APPLE PUDDING WITH CUSTARD (Diabetic). — Ingredients: \ lb. apples; 2 eggs ; \ gill Plasmon stock; \ oz. butter ; 1 teaspoonful Plasmon ; saccharin to taste. Method. — Stew or bake apples until they form a pulp ; when cool, add yolks of 2 eggs, saccharin to taste, and stock ; beat whites up to stiff froth and stir in lightly ; pour into a prepared pie dish and bake gently for about 20 minutes. To prepare pie dish, line with butter and shake over it some dry Plasmon. 123. CUSTARD (Diabetic). — Ingredients: i egg; \ gill Plasmon stock; \ gill milk ; saccharin to taste; a small piece of lemon peel. Method. — Well beat egg, add stock and milk, lemon peel, and saccharin to taste; pour into a jug or a double saucepan ; cook gently until thick, but do not allow to boil. 56 124. LEMON SPONGE (Diabetic). — Ingredients^ l pint Plasmon stock ; \ oz. gelatine ; a little water ; saccharin, lemon peel , and citric acid to taste. Method. — Soak gelatine in about a tablespoonful of water for about 20 minutes, then put it into a saucepan with the stock, a small piece of lemon peel and saccharin ; cook until gelatine is dissolved, but do not boil; pour into a basin, add citric acid to taste, remove lemon peel, and beat mixture to a stiff froth. 125. INVALID JELLY. — Ingredients: 5 oz. gelatine; \ pint Plasmon stock; | pint milk; \ oz. sugar ; x egg; flavouring. Method. — Make the stock by mixing 1 teaspoonful Plasmon with 5 pint water;

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