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Caro Consomme

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. a slice of onion
  2. one tablespoon sugar
  3. Water
  4. Cloves
  5. Beef
  6. one blade mace

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.
  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Vuuv i)ouiids finely ('li()})ped beef and two (piarts water, add one onion, sliced, two bay leaves, one cai'i-ot chopped fine, one blade mace, five oi* six cloves.
  2. Place ovei' fire, bring slowly to boiling point, let sinime?" one houi-.
  3. Add one tablespoon sugar in which you have fried a slice of onion.
  4. Boil two minutes, strain through two thicknesses of cheese cloth, season, reheat and serve with a thin slice of onion.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Sieve