Darker and deeper than chicken broth, and a change of taste by mid-afternoon.
2 minutes · for the clear liquid day
What this is
A beef stock clarified until it runs completely clear, somewhere between amber and brown.
Buying it
Campbell's Condensed Beef Consomme is on most supermarket shelves near the soups, and dilutes with a can of water. Any canned consomme works as long as it pours clear.
Ingredients
Per person. The planner scales these for however many you are cooking for.
2 cups beef consomme
Method
To use canned consomme, dilute according to the label and heat until steaming.
To make it from scratch, whisk 2 egg whites and 3 ounces of very lean ground beef into 1 quart of cold stock.
Bring slowly up to heat without stirring. The egg white and beef will rise and set into a grey crust on the surface, which is doing the filtering. Do not break it.
Hold it just below a simmer for 45 minutes, then ladle the clear liquid out through a cheesecloth-lined strainer, leaving the crust behind.
This is a weekend project rather than a weeknight one. Make it ahead and freeze it if you want it for the day before.
This is one of the recipes for clear liquid day of colonoscopy prep.