Titanic 1st Class Menu: Consommé Olga

Submitted by Mimi Bobeck

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 7 cups degreased veal stock or 7 cups beef stock
• 1 carrot, finely chopped
• 1 leek, finely chopped
• 1 celery, finely chopped
• 1⁄2 tomatoes, chopped
• 1 tablespoon chopped parsley stems
• 1⁄4 lb lean ground veal or 1/4 lb lean ground beef
• salt and pepper
• 3 egg whites, beaten until frothy
• 1⁄4 cup port wine

• For the Garnish

• 6 large sea scallops
• 1⁄2 celeriac, bulb blanched and julienned or 1/2 celery, blanched and julienned
• 1⁄4 English cucumber, seeded and julienned

directions

1. In tall narrow pot, gently heat stock until body temperature. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, stir together vegetables, parsley, and meat until well combined; add salt and pepper; fold in egg whites.
2. Whisk heat stock into egg mixture; return to pot and, whisking, bring slowly to boil. When mixture begins to look frothy, stop stirring to allow egg mixture to rise and solidify into a raft. Lower heat to medium-low. Carefully make a vent hole in raft with spoon handle. Simmer consommé gently for 30 minutes.
3. Leaving pot on heat, carefully push raft down with back of ladle; ladle clarified consommé through cheesecloth-lined sieve into clean pot. Heat until very hot. Stir in Port.
4. Garnish: Slice scallops crosswise into 3 pieces, place 3 discs into bottom of each of 6 warmed bowls. Pour hot consommé over scallops; arrange celeriac and cucumber decoratively in each bowl. Serve immediately.