Consommes or Clear Soup

For consommé it is essential to use stock made from raw meat, i.e. First Brown Stock: this is cleared by either of the two following methods except where otherwise stated in the recipes. The albumen in the egg whites coagulates at 160° F., and as the hardened particles rise to the surface they carry with them all the insoluble substances with which they come in contact, forming a thick “crust” of foam. The soup is then strained through a finely-woven linen cloth, the foam “crust” covers th