Chapter III · The Small Compound Sauces · No. 75
Built upon: No. 143Green Colouring Butter
75—Chaud-Froid Sauce, au Vert-pré
Add to the velouté of the white Chaud-Froid sauce, at the same time as the jelly, an infusion prepared thus:—Boil one-quarter pint of white wine, and add to it one pinch of chervil stalks, a similar quantity of tarragon leaves, chives, and parsley leaves. Cover, allow infusion to proceed away from the fire for ten minutes, and strain through linen.
Treat the sauce as explained, and finish with spinach-green (No. 143, Green Colouring Butter). The shade of the sauce must not be too pronounced, but must remain a pale green. The colouring principle must therefore be added with caution and in small quantities, until the correct shade is obtained. Use this sauce for Chaud-froids of fowl, particularly that kind distinguished as “Printanier.”
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 75, p. 36. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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