Beef Tea with Lemco
From Practical West African cookery, 1910
These proportions are for a cup of beef tea for an invalid.
Presented as published in 1910. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Practical West African cookery (1910) by S. Leith-Ross, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
One teaspoon to one breakfast cup ol water. Gener- ally Lemco is simply put into the cup and boiling water poured over it, but it is greatly improved by putting a tea- spoon of Lemco into the small enamel saucepan, adding a breakfast cup of hot water, bringing it to the boil and letting it boil slowly for three or four minutes adding a little salt
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