You chop cooked beef very fine and put it in a jar with (or without, if you want Pure Essence of Beef (doesn't that sound like something they would use in potions class?)) cold water and cover it, then you put the jar in a pot of boiling water and let it sit there for several hours. You end up with a very strong, pure broth which you give to invalids.

It also wonder about the college proposals. It seems to me that it would be very inappropriate for a married woman to keep attending Redmond. I guess Anne was supposed to drop out, or they were going to set the weddings for after graduation, a la Phil and Jonas. I suppose Charlie could have loved Anne, too, or maybe he still had the attitude of "Anne Shirley the poor little foundling who would be lucky to marry anyone."