Chapter XIII · Soups · No. 595
595—Consommé D’Orsay
Prepare one quart of very clear chicken consommé, also make fifteen small quenelles of pigeon forcemeat moulded to the shape of eggs by means of a very small spoon, and poach the yolks of ten eggs, taking care to keep them very soft.
Put the quenelles and the poached yolks into the soup-tureen with a julienne of three fillets of pigeon and a tablespoonful of asparagus-heads, and pour thereon the boiling consommé. Serve at once.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 595, p. 213. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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