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Beef Tea

Sources: Papers On Health

It is well to bear in mind that there is scarcely any

nourishment even in home-made beef juice (the best form of any extract

of meat).



Home-made beef juice is prepared by scraping the meat into shreds,

placing in a jar, and leaving the water to soak into the meat for about

half-an-hour. Then place in a saucepan on the fire for an hour, during

which time it must not boil. After being then brought to the bo
l, it

should be removed immediately, and the lump of meat removed.



Some idea may be obtained of the relatively small amount of nourishment

even in this form of extract when it is remembered that the thin flaky

matter which sinks to the bottom in the bowl is practically the only

nutritive portion in the dish.



All extracts and such-like preparations are inferior to home-made beef

tea in value. We do not deny, then, the value of beef extracts as

stimulants in certain diseased conditions, but we do not recognise them

as a useful food. Further, the stimulating effect upon the heart is

largely due to the hot water they are made with (see Bone Diseased).



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