Chapter XIII · Soups · No. 542
542—Consommé D’Arenberg
With a small spoon-cutter, pick out a spoonful of carrot pearls and the same quantity of turnip pearls. Cook these vegetables by boiling them in consommé, taking care that the latter be reduced to a glaze when the vegetables are cooked. With the same spoon take the same quantity as above of very black truffle; also prepare a dariole-mould of royale made from asparagus heads, and a dozen small chicken-forcemeat quenelles, which should be moulded to the shape of large pearls.
Poach the quenelles, cut the royales up into slices, which must be stamped with an indented fancy-cutter, and put the whole into the soup-tureen with the carrots, turnips, and truffle pearls, and one tablespoonful of very green peas.
Pour a quart of chicken consommé over the garnish, and send to the table at once.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 542, p. 198. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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