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Stock and broth

16 recipes · Soups

16 stock and broth recipes from the “Big Cookbook,” in the soups category. From Henriette Schønberg Erken's original text to a modernized version for today's kitchen.

  • Brown Bouillon

    Erken's brown bouillon (1914): bones and roots browned into stock, meat browned and simmered tender in it. Clarified or thickened, with egg dumplings.

  • Brown Stock Soup

    Brown stock soup, Erken's basic recipe (1914): beef neck and root vegetables browned, simmered 5–6 hours with spices, strained into jars under fat.

  • Bouillon

    Erken's basic bouillon recipe (1914): beef with bones simmered in 5 liters of water with carrot, celeriac, leek and soup herbs, strained. With eight notes.

  • Veal Bouillon

    Browned veal bouillon from Erken's 1914 cookbook: veal shank browned with pork and vegetables, then simmered slowly for hours over cracked bones.

  • Fish Stock – Consommé de Poisson

    Fish stock (consommé de poisson) from Erken's 1914 cookbook: fish bones, heads and skin sweated in butter with vegetables and lemon, steeped half an hour.

  • Vegetable Stock I

    Vegetable stock I (Erken 1914): carrot, onion, swede and celeriac sweated in butter without browning, simmered 1½ hours with tomato and herbs, strained.

  • Vegetable Stock II

    Vegetable stock II from Erken's 1914 cookbook: onion, carrot, celery and parsley sweated in butter, simmered with dried peas or brown beans, strained.

  • Jenny Lind Soup I

    Jenny Lind soup from Erken 1914: sago is cooked clear in meat stock, thickened with egg yolk and cream and served with cooked, cut-up carrots and parsley roots.

  • Veal Soup

    Veal soup from Erken (1914): a simple soup of butter, flour and veal stock, served with flour dumplings, root vegetables or apples and prunes.

  • Cardinal Soup (Kardinalsuppe)

    Cardinal soup from Erken 1914: a thickened meat stock soup with julienned cooked ham and macaroni, enriched with egg yolk and cream, which may be omitted.

  • Emperor Soup

    Emperor soup from Erken 1914: a brown roux thinned with mutton stock and root vegetables, spiced with curry and cayenne, enriched with egg yolks and cream.

  • Clarifying meat stock

    Erken's 1914 method for clarifying meat stock into clear consommé with egg white, lean beef and lemon, strained through cloth and skimmed of fat.

  • Game Stock – consommé de gibier

    Game stock (consommé de gibier) from Erken's 1914 cookbook: neck, breast and shoulder browned and cooked 3 hours, clarified with game meat and egg white.

  • Clear Soup I (consommé)

    Clear soup I (consommé) from Erken's Big Cookbook (1914): beef shank and chicken carcasses simmered 4–5 hours with vegetables, skimmed and strained clear.

  • Consommé II (chicken) – consommé de volaille

    Chicken consommé (consommé de volaille) from Erken's 1914 cookbook: veal shank and old hens simmered slowly with onion and celeriac, clear and pale.

  • Soup of Canned Turtle

    Soup of canned turtle from Erken's Big Cookbook (1914), a historical party dish; today the turtle is replaced with veal or sweetbread.