Consomme (Clear Stock)

Ingredients

• three pounds and a half of shin of beef
• half a pound of knuckle of veal
• one ounce of butter
• three small onions
• Three onions
• six carrots
• three small turnips
• a piece of celery
• a leek
• a bay leaf
• a little parsley
• a small blade of mace
• two or three cloves
• peppercorns
• salt

Method

1. 1

   Take the meat off the bones, removing all fat and skin, and cut the lean part into pieces about 1.5 inches square.

2. 2

   Fry in butter until dark brown.

3. 3

   Add sliced onions after 10 minutes.

4. 4

   Transfer to a stock-pot, rinsing the frying pan with a quart of boiling water.

5. 5

   Add 2 quarts of boiling water, broken bones, and vegetables.

6. 6

   Bring to boil, remove scum, and simmer for about 8 hours.

7. 7

   Strain through a cloth and leave to cool.

8. 8

   Remove fat the next day.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Little French dinners (1898) by Eveleen De Rivaz, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

onsomme* (Clear Stock). — Take three pounds and a half of shin of beef and half a pound of knuckle of veal, take Little French Dinners. 61 the meat off the bones, removing all fat and skin, and cut up the lean part into pieces about one inch and a half square. Put these into a frying pan with one ounce of butter, and fry them over a good fire till they are a dark brown colour. Ten minutes after having put the frying pan on the fire add three small onions, cut up in slices, which must be fried with the meat ; when it is quite ready, empty into the stock- pot the contents of the frying-pan, rinsing out the latter two or three times with altogether a quart of boiling water; add also to the stock -pot two more quarts of boiling water, then the bones broken up, and the following vegetables, etc. : — Three onions, six carrots, three small turnips, a piece of celery, a leek, a bay leaf, a little parsley, thyme, and marjoram, in due proportions, a small blade of mace, two or three cloves, peppercorns, and salt

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