Raw Beef

Uncooked Meat

Raw meat is not quite as easily digested as cooked meat, and owing to color and flavor is not appetizing, and could not be taken continuously. However, when chopped fine, or scraped free from connective tissue, it is very readily digested and can be served disguised or very slightly cooked in many dainty ways.

Comparative Food Value Of Raw Beef And Beef Tea

It can readily be seen that raw meat served chopped fine or scraped contains all the nutriment of the meat, whereas beef tea as seen from the manner of preparation, contains only the extractives and soluble mineral matter of meat.

Beef Juice

100 grains (3½ oz.) =25 Calories. Select a piece of meat from the rump or top of the round. Remove all fat and broil or warm slightly one or two minutes, to set free the juices; lay on plate and cut meat in various directions that more juice may be extracted; then squeeze out the juice by means of a press, lemon squeezer or potato ricer into a slightly warmed cup. Salt if necessary, and serve at once. Prepare only enough to serve, as it does not keep well. Serve in dainty china cup to disguise color. One pound of meat yields four ounces of juice.

Beef Juice (For Infants), 20 Calories

This food is very useful in forms of diarrhoea and dysentery. A half pound of chopped lean meat is made into an oval, flat mass, placed on a broiler and slightly browned. The juice is then expressed with a small meat press, mixed with equal parts of barley water and salted to suit the taste.- Koplik.

Beef Essence

100 grams (3½ oz.) =23 Calories.

Put one-half pound round steak (freed from fat, etc.) through a meat chopper; put into small glass fruit jar with one tablespoon cold water. Place jar in a kettle of cold water, heat gradually and keep at temperature 150 degrees Fahrenheit (which is 62 degrees below the boiling point of water) for two hours. Strain and press the meat to obtain all the juice. Season with salt. Serve in slightly heated dainty china cup to disguise color.

Note

A small piece of raw beef, broiled slightly, then cut up and added to above, gives a better flavor.

Liquid thus obtained should be red with albuminous juice in solution and not coagulated; it is nutritious, and may be kept in refrigerator twelve hours. Serve in small quantity slightly heated; or it may be made into beef tea by diluting with boiling water. Beef essence given ice cold is often grateful to a fever patient.

Liquid Peptonoids, 28 Calories

Add one tablespoonful of Liquid Peptonoids to one-half cup of boiling water; add pinch of salt. Sip slowly. This will be found particularly grateful in painful affections of the throat.

Note

To serve cold, pour one tablespoonful Liquid Peptonoids over a small glass of finely cracked ice. Allow it to chill thoroughly and sip slowly.

Beef Tea

½ pound steak. Salt.

1 cup cold water.

Wipe steak, remove all fat and cut in small pieces. Put in glass fruit jar, add the cold water and let it stand fifteen minutes to draw out the juice. Cover jar, using rubber band and cover, place on trivet in a kettle and surround with cold water. Allow water to heat slowly to 150° F. (no higher), and keep at this temperature two hours. Strain and season with salt. Remove fat with soft paper or bread. Reheat over hot water to 130° F. and serve in heated cups.

Note

If possible cool beef tea before serving that fat may be removed more thoroughly.

Beef Tea Frozen

Beef tea may be frozen to the consistency of a water ice. Very grateful to a fever patient.

Beef Tea With Hydrochloric Acid

100 grams (3½ oz.) =25 Calories.1 Select one-half pound of good beef; remove everything that is not clear meat. Chop it fine. Put in pint fruit jar and add one cup cold water and five drops dilute hydrochloric acid. Stir and set in refrigerator or any cold place for two hours to digest. Then strain, season with salt and serve in some dainty china cup on account of color. If one should object to color, heat the tea in a double boiler just till color changes. Do not strain. Beef tea made in this way is recommended by physicians for feeble children and patients much weakened by sickness.

Iced Panopepton, 30 Calories

To a small glass half-full of clean crushed ice add one tablespoonful of Panopepton; let it stand a moment and then sip slowly.

Panopepton -Hot, 36 Calories

To a small teacup two-thirds full of boiling water, add one tablespoonful of Panopepton, and one teaspoonful of fresh lemon juice - a little sugar, if desired - stir. Drink immediately, sipping slowly. This gives a pleasant sense of warmth when one is chilly, and is excellent in cases where light nourishment is required before retiring.

1 Calculated as beef juice.

Scraped Beef

100 grams = 142 Calories. Wipe a small piece of steak, cut from top of round. Lay it on a meat board, and with a sharp knife scrape off the soft part until there is nothing left but the tough, stringy fibers. Make it into little flat, round cakes half an inch thick and broil them two minutes. Season with salt and pepper if allowed. Serve on rounds of buttered toast. Do not add salt before cooking, as it toughens the meat.

Haw Beef Sandwiches

1 ounce scraped beef..................= 40 Calories.

1 ounce bread (1 slice) ...............=73 Calories.

Prepare meat as for scraped beef, season and spread on bread cut very thin. Put slices on top, sandwich-fashion, and cut in fancy shapes. Serve in this manner or toast daintily.