Consomme of Beef and Fowl

Ingredients

• 2 pounds of lean beef
• 1 Fowl
• Stock or plain broth
• 2 carrots, 2 onions,
• 1 head of celery or a pinch of celery seed
• Thyme
• 1 whole pepper
• Mace(spice)
• 1 Bay Leaf
• 1 egg

Directions

1. Half roast the fowl and cut into pieces.
2. Put fowl into a saucepan filled with the broth.
3. Skim the broth and add in vegetables, spices, and the bay leaf.
4. Let the mixture simmer for 3 to 4 hours.
5. Strain through a coarse cloth, free the mixture entirely of fat.
6. Clarify with the whites of the egg.

Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Colson Thornton
Louisiana Anthology
October 2, 2022