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beef tea

British  

noun

  1. a drink made by boiling pieces of lean beef: often given to invalids to stimulate the appetite

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Referring to the beef tea some fans would drink at half-time, he said it was "a long-ball world of Bovril, packed terraces and Northern rain... with supporters watching fantastic footballers with equally fabulous haircuts".

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2021

As well as enforced seclusion, she was placed on a regime of weight gain; four or five pints of milk daily, as well as cutlets, liquid malt extract and beef tea.

From Newsweek • Feb. 13, 2015

This is what your white-suited caregivers serve, just before dinner on special occasions, when they allow you something livelier than beef tea.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2013

Fortnum's supplied Wellington's officers with hams and butter during the Napoleonic Wars and shipped 250 Ibs. of concentrated beef tea to Florence Nightingale and her wounded in the Crimea.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mam makes beef tea from a cube and Malachy and Mike watch me drink it.They say they’d like some too but Mam says go away, ye didn’t have the typhoid.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt