To Clear a Soup with Meat and Egg White

Preparation info
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    4 cups

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    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Craig Claiborne’s Kitchen Primer

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1969

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Ingredients

  • ½ pound ground raw stewing meat
  • 1 carrot, scraped and coarsely chopped
  • 1 rib celery

Method

  1. Place the raw meat in a large saucepan and add the chopped carrot and celery. Blend lightly.

  2. Beat the egg white lightly with a rotary beater or wire whisk. Do not beat until stiff, only frothy. Stir the egg white into the raw-meat mixture with a wooden spoon. Pour the cold broth over the meat and stir lightly with the spoon. Add the parsley and bay le